Workplaces value employees who have a broad range of real-world skills, and this combined degree will equip you to excel in today’s dynamic working environment. In our Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business, you’ll gain business knowledge and learn to think like an entrepreneur. You’ll develop creative and/or socio-cultural knowledge, plus skills in critical thinking and communication. Our degree fosters the accumulation of knowledge and the acquisition of a diverse set of skills, essential to helping you be an independent thinker, and empowering you to create a new future, new career prospects and the ability to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing modern workplace.

Why study the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business with UNE?

You will choose from a broad range of business and arts majors to build a skillset of specialist knowledge in areas that interest you.

The arts component enables you to develop skills in critical thinking, ethical practice, creativity, cultural awareness and effective communication in all its forms, and you get to choose a major from a broad range of arts and humanities subject areas.

The business component allows you to specialise in areas such as management, marketing, human resources, accounting or business analytics, to name just a few.

Combine the two majors to suit your career ambitions and areas of interest.

As a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business graduate you will demonstrate a broad global perspective, with specialist knowledge in an area of the arts, as well as business. Such a diverse skillset and flexibility are highly sought after by employers in a fast-evolving professional landscape.

What makes our course different?

Our graduates are perfectly placed to succeed in a broad spectrum of careers through their understanding of business, the contemporary world, as well as human culture and society.

• Study flexibility with your choice of 48 different majors and minors in arts and 9 majors in business, with the ability to study online, on-campus or a combination of both.
• Our Work Integrated Learning Program gives you the opportunity to apply your academic knowledge in a relevant professional setting, and have it count towards your degree, developing your professional skills and improving your employability.
• Travel overseas (subject to travel restrictions) and get credit towards your degree by studying at one of our partner universities.
• Accelerate your degree or combine it with periods of full-time employment with online learning support and optional Trimester 3 units.
• Start up your own business as part of our Business In Action unit where you will be mentored through the start-up phase with our Smart Region Incubator*.
• Major in Psychology and graduate with a three-year sequence in psychology accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council.
• Choose options to study on campus or online, allowing you to balance your studies with your work and personal commitments. You can even choose to study on campus but take some units online, giving you the flexibility to tailor your study program to meet your objectives.

We’re highly rated – year after year, students award UNE 5-star ratings in The Good Universities Guide for Overall Experience and Student Support, so when you study with us, you know you are in good hands.

Majors – Arts

• Ancient History
• Archaeological Studies
• Australian History
• Chinese
• Classical Languages
• Community Planning
• Counselling
• Crime and Society
• Criminal Justice
• Cultural Heritage
• English – Literary Futures
• English – Literary Traditions
• Environmental Futures
• French
• Gender Studies
• German
• Global Politics
• Human Geography
• Indonesian
• International Law
• Italian
• Japanese
• Linguistics
• Medieval and Modern Europe
• Music
• Peace Studies
• Philosophy
• Physical Geography
• Planning and Design
• Politics
• Psychology
• Screen and Media Studies
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Studies in Religion
• Studies in Settler Colonialism
• Theatre and Performance
• Writing

Majors – Business

• Agribusiness
• Business Analytics
• Economics
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Management
• Marketing

To qualify for the award a candidate must pass units to the value of 192 credit points comprising:
Bachelor of Arts component – 96 credit points including 12 credit points of Core Units, one Minor and one Major. The Bachelor of Arts component shall include not more than 36 credit points at 100-level, at least 36 credit points at 300-level and not more than 12 credit points at 400-level;
To continue in the course a candidate must successfully complete 12 credit points of Core Units in the Arts component within the first 48 credit points of attempted units, excluding advanced standing. Candidates who fail to meet this course progression requirement will be asked to show cause as to why they should not have conditions placed on their continued enrolment or be discontinued from the course; and
Bachelor of Business component – 96 credit points including one Major with not more than 42 credit points at 100-level and at least 30 credit points at 300/400-level and not more than 12 credit points at 400-level.

• Bachelor of Arts component
• Bachelor of Business component

See UNE Handbook for more details. The Handbook contains detailed course information designed for enrolled students, including course plans, exit awards, intensive schools, and work placement requirements.

Our combined Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business fosters the accumulation of knowledge and the development of a diverse set of skills, empowering you to create a new future, new career prospects and the ability to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing modern workplace.

Career paths include:

• management
• public relations
• public service
• education
• finance sector
• business
• human resources
• research and analysis
• social and public policy
• tourism and creative industries
• international affairs
• aid and development.

A candidate shall: For direct admission into undergraduate courses offered by UNE you must have completed an educational qualification considered to be at least equivalent to completion of Y

An IELTS (Academic) overall score of at least 6.0 with no sub-band less than 5.5; or equivalent TOEFL score of at least 213 in the computer-based test; or at least 79 in the internet-based test with no less than 22 in the written component; or a PTE Academic minimum overall score of 57 with no skill less than 50;