Bachelor of Commerce
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Award granted | Bachelor of Commerce |
|---|---|
| Deakin course code | M300 |
| Course version | 1 |
| Faculty | |
| Course Information | For students who commenced from 1994 to 2015 |
| Final Intake | Offered to continuing students only. The final intake to this course was in teaching period 2, 2015. Students should contact Student Central for course, course map and enrolment information. |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS code | 001838A |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Professional recognition
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Majors
- Course structure
- Fees and charges
Course overview
The Commerce courses at Deakin are some of the most flexible and broadly based business programs on offer at any Australian university.
After a common first year of study in key business disciplines, students can choose from a wide range of specialist major sequences without having to lock themselves into one program from the beginning. Also students can choose from specialised areas offered by other faculties such as journalism, sociology, politics and policy studies, languages, psychology, or many other areas of interest (subject to satisfying entry requirements).
Indicative student workload
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include lectures, seminars, online interactions, or professional experiences for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Professional recognition
Selecting the correct combination of units in one of our professionally accredited courses, provides an opportunity to be eligible to apply for admission to the:
• CA Program of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)
• Associate membership for the CPA Program, CPA Australia
• IPA Program for the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) and
• Exemptions may apply for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Students should consult with a Faculty course adviser to identify the units required by each professional
body, and also consult with the professional body. Eligibility may depend on work place experience.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply a broad and coherent theoretical and technical knowledge of commerce and its applications. |
| Communication | Communicate commerce concepts and information effectively including in oral, written and visual forms in a cohesive and understandable manner to academic audiences, business professionals and laypersons. |
| Digital literacy | Use technologies to Identify, locate, evaluate, synthesise and disseminate and communicate information in the field of commerce. |
| Critical thinking | Evaluate and critically analyse academic, professional and business information and values. |
| Problem solving | Identify solutions to a diverse range of authentic problems in commerce. |
| Self-management | Take personal responsibility for actions, self- reflect and critique own performance and identify and plan future professional development. |
| Teamwork | Interact and collaborate with others from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. |
| Global citizenship | Engage effectively in different environments and contexts reflecting social, sustainable, ethical, economic, and global perspectives in the field of commerce. |
Approved by Faculty Board
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Commerce you must pass 24 credit points. This includes:
- 10 credit points of core units
- 1 major sequence (6 credit points)
- 8 credit points of open electives units (which may include another major sequence)
- at least 6 credit points must be taken at level 3, of which 4 must be Faculty of Business and Law units
- No more than 10 credit points may be taken at level 1.
Most units are equal to one credit point.
As a full-time student you will study four credit points per trimester and usually undertake two trimesters per year.
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements.
Majors
All students in the Bachelor of Commerce are required to complete at least one major sequence chosen from the following:
• Accounting^
• Accounting Information Systems#
• Business Analytics#
• Business Information Systems#
• Business Security Management#
• Commercial Law#
• eBusiness#
• Economics
• Finance
• Financial Planning^
• Health Informatics#
• Human Resource Management
• Interactive Marketing#
• International Business#
• International Management#
• International Trade and Economic Policy#
• Management
• Marketing
• Professional Practice#
• Quantitative Business Analysis#
• Supply Chain Management#
• Technology Management#
^ M300 Bachelor of Commerce is the recommended pathway to qualify for membership of professional organisations.
# Offered to continuing students only
Please discuss units required for each major with a Student Adviser
Course structure
Core units
| MAA103 | Accounting for Decision Making |
| MAE101 | Economic Principles |
| MAE203 | The Global Economy (replaces MAE102) |
| MAF101 | Fundamentals of Finance |
| MIS203 | Managing Information in the Digital Age (replaces MIS101) |
| MIS171 | Business Analytics |
| MLC101 | Law for Commerce |
| MMK101 | Marketing Fundamentals (replaces MMK277) |
| MMM132 | Management |
| MWL101 | Professional Insight (replaces MMH299) |
MAE102 The Global Economy: [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit MAE203]
MIS101 Business Information Systems [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit MIS203]
MMK277 Marketing Management [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit MMK101]
MMH299 Business Communication [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit MWL101]
Fees and charges
Tuition fees will vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, your study load and/or unit discipline.
Your tuition fees will increase annually at the start of each calendar year. All fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD) and do not include additional costs such as textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment, mandatory checks, travel, consumables and other costs.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.
Further information
Contact Student Central for assistance in course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements. Student Central can also provide information for a wide range of services at Deakin. To help you understand the University vocabulary, please refer to our Enrolment codes and terminology page.