Planning your studies

The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) is a flexible degree within which you have a wide range of choices in subject selection. This flexibility is in response to the demand from employers for graduates with a broad education. Discipline areas are not printed on your transcript, with the exception of the BCom (Management).

The Faculty has prepared a Course Planning Guide as a tool to help you with planning your studies. The Guide provides details of subjects you can take to gain a basic or firm grounding in different discipline areas as well as details of professional accreditation requirements.

Diagrams and checklists have been provided to assist you in understanding your course structure, whether a single BCom or a double degree.

The Course Planning Guide can be obtained from the Undergraduate Student Centre, or is available to download:

Course Planning Guide (PDF, 1.70 MB)

Areas of Study

• Accounting and Business Information Systems
• Actuarial Studies
• Economics
• Finance
• Management and Marketing

Upon enrolment in the BCom, we encourage you to consider subjects across the Faculty of Economics and Commerce as well as approved non-commerce subjects from the Faculties of Arts and Science.

Students in double degrees may also be able to enrol in subjects from outside of their two degrees and there is information within the Course Planning Guide and the Undergraduate Handbook indicating which courses have free points in which to do this.

Students should refer to the Undergraduate Handbook section on commerce and non-commerce subjects for information on suggested areas of study as well as restrictions that apply to enrolling in non-commerce subjects.

Full details on subjects available in all areas of study can be found in the Undergraduate Handbook.