Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
Overview
Tailor your degree to suit your career goals with the choice of 8 majors plus an opportunity to gain an industry placement.
This program is suited to high-achieving students who want to gain the skills to succeed in the complex and fast-paced business world.
We only accept a small group of students each year who get to experience a unique and personal education run by internationally respected industry experts and teachers.
Honours is awarded to all graduates of this program, which means you will have a globally recognised degree that will stand out in a competitive job market.
Program highlights
- Study with a small, motivated and high-achieving class group who have ambitions for leadership roles in business, the community or academia.
- Learn how to engage with your customers and employees, use analytics to understand markets, and design, measure and assess financial and business decisions.
- Choose either a professional pathway and study up to 2 majors, or choose a research pathway to prepare for a PhD.
- Our teachers have been awarded some of Australia's highest accolades, including the ANZMAC Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, and Australian Government citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
- Accounting
- Business Analytics
- Business Information Systems
- Finance
How you'll learn
Your learning experiences are designed to best suit the learning outcomes of the courses you choose.
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Work placements
- Laboratory work
- Seminars
Placements and work experience
What you'll study
At UQ, degrees are called 'programs' and subjects are called 'courses'. Here's a sample of the courses you could study in this program:
- Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Derivatives and Risk Management
- Globalisation and Business
- Deep Learning for Business
Career possibilities
Our programs prepare you for your first job and beyond. Depending on which major you choose, here are some of the careers you could be on your way to:
- Finance manager
- Business intelligence consultant
- Business systems analyst
- International logistics adviser
- Business entrepreneur
- Financial crime analyst
- Leadership development coordinator
- Trade specialist
- Marketing automation specialist
- Auditor
Professional memberships
When you graduate, you may be eligible for memberships with the following professional organisations. Contact the organisation to find out how to become a member.
- Association of Certified Chartered Accountants
- Australian Human Resources Institute
- Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance
- Australian Marketing Institute
- Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
- Chartered Secretaries Australia Limited
- Certified Practising Accountants Australia
- Financial Services Institute of Australasia
- Institute of Public Accountants
“The strong focus on real life experiences has enhanced my confidence in joining the workforce, and I believe my program gives me the tools to make a difference in the business world.”
Stephanie FieldCurrent student, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
“Studying Advanced Business gave me insight into the increasingly globalised and dynamic business environment, equipping me with the skills required to be a business leader.”
Chanel LeungCurrent student, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
“The strong focus on real life experiences has enhanced my confidence in joining the workforce, and I believe my program gives me the tools to make a difference in the business world.”
Stephanie FieldCurrent student, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
“Studying Advanced Business gave me insight into the increasingly globalised and dynamic business environment, equipping me with the skills required to be a business leader.”
Chanel LeungCurrent student, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
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Entry requirements
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Entry score threshold
| ATAR / Rank | IB |
|---|---|
| 94.00 | 36 |
These are the lowest adjusted scores we made an offer to in Semester 1, 2021. Entry scores are based on the most recent Semester 1 intake and are updated in April each year. Meeting the threshold doesn't guarantee admission.
Have an OP from the last 2 years? See QTAC's OP to ATAR conversions (PDF) for a rough guide to equivalent ATARs.
English language requirements
IELTS overall 7; reading 6.5; writing 6.5; speaking 6.5; listening 6.5. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL IBT - Overall 100, listening 21, reading 21, writing 24, speaking 21
TOEFL PB - Overall 600, listening 56, reading 56, writing 61/5
Pearsons - Overall 72, all sub bands minimum 64
BE - A minimum overall grade of 5 plus a minimum grade of A in Writing and Speaking
CES - Overall 185, all sub bands minimum 176
OET is not accepted
There are other ways to meet the English language requirements. For some programs, additional conditions apply.
Need help meeting the entry requirements?
Student visas
International students who are accepted into full-time study in the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) are eligible to apply for an Australian student visa (subclass 500).
There are a number of requirements you must satisfy before a visa is granted, including the genuine temporary entrant (GTE) requirement.
Entry score range
This table shows the range of entry scores for recent secondary students offered a place in the B Advanced Business(Hons) for Semester 1, 2021
| Without adjustments | With adjustments | |
|---|---|---|
| Highest | 99.7 | 99.95 |
| Median | 95.2 | 96.35 |
| Lowest | 90 | 94 |
Majors
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
Accounting
Courses cover advanced topics including financial reporting and strategy, business analysis, environment and methodology of auditing, costing systems and cost management, commercial law and taxation law.
The integrative major capstone course will give you insight into how accounting strategy supports organisations achieve their strategic ambitions.
Business Analytics
You’ll see how analytics is applied to all areas of business from improving business decision making and organisational processes to strategy making.
The courses in this major cover the powerful tools used by business analysts and data scientists, including data visualisation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning and deep learning. You'll also look at case studies from across the applied business disciplines, including accounting, finance, human resource management, and marketing.
Learning how to solve real problems, the project-based capstone within the Business Analytics major uses live case studies from participating businesses. Working closely with academic support and industry decision makers, you’ll work on a project and write and present your project findings to an audience including industry representatives.
Business Information Systems
You will learn how to first gather requirements and then how to design, implement and manage IT systems to enhance business decision-making.
This major covers topics including lean thinking, business data and business processes.
Finance
It will teach you to use research methods to understand financial problems, as well as debt and equity capital markets, funds management, real estate as an asset class, and private equity.
You’ll gain an understanding of behavioural finance, and how this underpins financial decision-making, including trading strategies, investment decisions, managerial behaviour, and institutional frictions that influence economic outcomes.
Graduates enjoy careers in corporate finance, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and management and financial consulting.
Human Resources
This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain competence required for their roles.
You'll study topics including employment relations and workplace conflict, selection and recruitment, organisational change, performance management and leadership.
This major covers Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.
This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then, you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.
Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value. Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.
There will also be the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond.
These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.
International Business
You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key issues including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.
In the integrative major capstone course, you will work in teams to evaluate a firm’s business and corporate level strategies, identify issues and ethical implications, and evaluate alternative courses of action.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.
Marketing
You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.
The courses in this major will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.
The integrated major capstone course will help you gain a deeper understanding of strategic marketing ambitions of organisations, and how customers are central to enterprise success and revenue generation.
This major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
Accounting
Courses cover advanced topics including financial reporting and strategy, business analysis, environment and methodology of auditing, costing systems and cost management, commercial law and taxation law.
The integrative major capstone course will give you insight into how accounting strategy supports organisations achieve their strategic ambitions.
Business Analytics
You’ll see how analytics is applied to all areas of business from improving business decision making and organisational processes to strategy making.
The courses in this major cover the powerful tools used by business analysts and data scientists, including data visualisation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning and deep learning. You'll also look at case studies from across the applied business disciplines, including accounting, finance, human resource management, and marketing.
Learning how to solve real problems, the project-based capstone within the Business Analytics major uses live case studies from participating businesses. Working closely with academic support and industry decision makers, you’ll work on a project and write and present your project findings to an audience including industry representatives.
Business Information Systems
You will learn how to first gather requirements and then how to design, implement and manage IT systems to enhance business decision-making.
This major covers topics including lean thinking, business data and business processes.
Finance
It will teach you to use research methods to understand financial problems, as well as debt and equity capital markets, funds management, real estate as an asset class, and private equity.
You’ll gain an understanding of behavioural finance, and how this underpins financial decision-making, including trading strategies, investment decisions, managerial behaviour, and institutional frictions that influence economic outcomes.
Graduates enjoy careers in corporate finance, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and management and financial consulting.
Human Resources
This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain competence required for their roles.
You'll study topics including employment relations and workplace conflict, selection and recruitment, organisational change, performance management and leadership.
This major covers Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.
This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then, you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.
Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value. Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.
There will also be the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond.
These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.
International Business
You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key issues including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.
In the integrative major capstone course, you will work in teams to evaluate a firm’s business and corporate level strategies, identify issues and ethical implications, and evaluate alternative courses of action.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.
Marketing
You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.
The courses in this major will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.
The integrated major capstone course will help you gain a deeper understanding of strategic marketing ambitions of organisations, and how customers are central to enterprise success and revenue generation.
This major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.
Fees and Scholarships
Indicative annual fee
AUD $43,888
Indicative annual fee 2021
This indicative annual fee is the cost of enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) for the 2021 academic year. It is calculated based on a standard full-time study load (16 units per academic year).
If you enrol in a larger or smaller study load, your fees will be calculated on a proportionate basis. All fees are reviewed annually.
AUD $14,500
Indicative annual fee 2021 Commonwealth supported place
This indicative annual fee is the approximate cost of enrolling in a Commonwealth supported place (CSP) in the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) for one academic year. It is calculated based on a standard full-time study load (16 units over two semesters).
Actual fees will vary according to your choice of courses and their unit value. The Australian Government indexes fees each year.
Government assistance
Financial aid
As an international student, you might be eligible for financial aid – either from your home country, or from the Australian Government.
HECS-HELP
Domestic places in the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) are Commonwealth Supported. This means the cost of your education is shared between you and the Australian Government.
Instead of tuition fees, Commonwealth Supported students pay what are called student contribution amounts.
HECS-HELP is an Australian Government loan scheme to assist eligible students with the cost of their student contribution amounts.
Centrelink support
The Australian Government offers a number of income-support payments to eligible Australian university students.
Scholarships
Make your university experience more affordable with a scholarship. Opportunities include:
Scholarships
Make your university experience more affordable with a scholarship. Opportunities include:
How to apply
Applying online
If your senior schooling is from outside Australia, you can submit your application to UQ. Or, if you prefer, you can use an approved UQ agent in your country.
The program code for the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) is 2139.
Find out more about applying for undergraduate study
If your senior schooling is from Australia
Submit your application to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre if you're an international student who is currently studying:
- Australian Year 12 (in Australia or another country), or
- the International Baccalaureate in Australia.
The QTAC code for the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) is 709101.
Applying through QTAC
All domestic applications should be submitted to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC).
The QTAC code for the Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) is 709101.
Important dates
If you’re studying Year 12 in Australia, go to the QTAC website to check the closing date for this program.
If you’re applying to UQ, the closing date for this program is:
- To commence study in semester 1 - November 30 of the previous year.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
Important dates
To check the closing date for this program, go to the QTAC website.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
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A rank or score doesn’t determine your potential.
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