With this degree you will be equipped with skills that meet the demands of business including developing communication and engagement skills, building networks, adopting a commercial mindset, understanding project management and mastering critical thinking and problem solving.

Most businesses around the world now support their critical business processes by using IT. This is as true for large multinationals as it is for small and medium enterprises. Businesses also must use a range of electronic methods in the marketing of products and keeping in touch with clients and employees in an efficient and cost effective ways.

Knowledge of these systems and integrating them into the overall business strategy are essential, together with the use of the data they generate. This major provides students with the opportunity to gain these skills as a component of their business studies.

Career Outcomes

Business graduates with this major can pursue a broad range of careers including business analyst, e-business manager, information systems manager, security analyst, security consultant, system analyst, information system consultant or project manager.

Course Structure

3 trimesters per year (normally 4 subjects per trimester)

Core Subjects

• Accounting for Decision Making
• Economics for Sustainable Business
• Business Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Business, Environment and Society in the Tropics
• Contemporary Business Communications
• Managing Consumer Markets
• Business Law
• plus one of the following:
• Professional Internship
• Multidisciplinary Project
• Independent Project
• Major Subjects
• (8 subjects)
• Fundamentals of Problem Solving and Programming I
• Web Design and Development
• Information Processing and Visualisation
• Database Modelling
• Collective Intelligence and Entrepreneurship
• E-Strategic Management
• Data Mining
• Information Security