The Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Business combined degree teaches skills in practical agriculture, accounting, agribusiness, marketing, management and international business. Graduates have the ability to apply their knowledge to a diverse range of agricultural and business endeavours and to ‘problem solve’ business and technical aspects of farm and resource management. This degree provides a specialist and generalist agricultural and business training that equips students with the background to solve agricultural resource problems from a business and economic perspective. The course allows students can achieve disciplinary depth as well as the breadth of learning expected in agriculture and business degrees.
This combined program provides the opportunity to study in areas such as animal production systems and products, crop and pasture management, animal health and welfare, feedlot management, cotton crop protection, grains crop protection, poultry and sheep production, business information technology, micro and macroeconomics, economic perspectives of environment and food, farm and resource management, agribusiness marketing, commodity markets and banking and finance.
Students can choose from four majors: Accounting; Agribusiness; Marketing; and International Business. The Accounting major enables students to receive Professional Body Entry into CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), or the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
Units Of Study:
The four majors are
- Accounting
- Agribusiness
- Marketing
- International Business.
Eligibility Criteria :
- A candidate shall be qualified for admission (see Admission Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Coursework) Rule and Admission Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Coursework) Procedures).
- Assumed knowledge is any two units of English, Mathematics.
- Recommended studies are Biology and/or Chemistry.
- For students without the recommended background knowledge, the School offers introductory units in Chemistry and Mathematics.
