Bachelors of Business Management / Economics

With this dual program, you'll be prepared to lead, develop and grow businesses across all sectors of the economy. You'll learn to think like an economist and understand how people make decisions, how markets operate and how the world works.

This dual program allows you to combine specific business management studies with an area of study in the Bachelor of Economics.

During your business studies, you'll hear from industry guest lecturers, examine real-life case studies and undertake projects, placements and internships with leading businesses. With course content developed in close collaboration with UQ industry partners, you'll study topics including accounting, economics, law, marketing, business information systems and strategy.

The Bachelor of Economics will teach you how to question, analyse, model and predict behaviour. Economics is central to decision-making in business, markets, trade, government, health, and a range of other areas. You'll complete a list of compulsory courses that will build your knowledge about key economic principles, theories and tools. You'll study topics including microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and more.

You'll graduate from one of the largest, most influential and most prestigious schools for economics in Australia. The school is home to more than 70 staff, including experts in energy and climate change, productivity and efficiency analysis, and development economics.

Program highlights

• Take advantage of UQ's strong industry collaborations and gain experience through initiatives including executive shadowing and individual placements.
• Study at one of the largest, most influential and most prestigious schools for economics in Australia.
• Join one of the world's top business schools and learn from award-winning research and industry experts.
• Open up opportunities for a wide range of change-making careers in the public, private and not-for-profit sector.

Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:

• Advertising
• Business and Industry
• Business Information Systems
• Economics and Public Policy
• Human Resources
• International Business
• International Trade and Finance
• Marketing
• Natural Resources and Environment
• Quantitative Methods