Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology
Overview
Prepare yourself for diverse career options across sectors including accounting, financial services and information technology with a strong foundation in commerce, plus computing design and engineering.
With a Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Information Technology, you'll be ready to adapt to ever-changing commercial environments and be in high demand with employers.
You'll graduate with a combination of core and specialist knowledge, along with sharp analytical and technical skills that will kickstart access to rewarding opportunities across many sectors of the economy, from banking and finance services through to high-tech service and software development.
You'll study foundation topics including accounting, information systems, economics, business analytics, management, software engineering, design, mathematics and information systems. As you progress through your degrees, you'll select majors that allow you to specialise within commerce and information technology disciplines.
Developed with strong input from our industry partners, this flexible course will allow you to stand out from the crowd with highly developed business acumen and technology leadership skills.
Program highlights
- Graduate with skills that are in high demand with employers.
- Benefit from a program developed through strong industry consultation.
- Specialise in commerce majors including Accounting, Business Information Systems, Business Analytics and Finance, and/or IT majors including Software Design, User Experience Design and Software Information Systems.
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
- Seminars
What you'll study
At UQ, degrees are called 'programs' and subjects are called 'courses'.
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:
- Business systems analyst
- System architect
- Software architect
- Purchasing officer
- Information systems technician
- Technology consultant
- System administrator
Mid-career salary
Software Architect (Applications)
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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 Computer Society
- Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
- Chartered Secretaries Australia Limited
- Certified Practising Accountants Australia
- Financial Services Institute of Australasia
- Institute of Public Accountants
“The IT degree at UQ focuses on empowering students to create applications from scratch and learn how to pitch them to clients or employers. Don’t expect to just be sitting in a classroom learning code. Most of my time was taken up by exciting team projects, where we'd come up with a novel idea for an application, get passionate about it, and then actually create it. In this way, I graduated with not only a degree, but also a Portfolio”
Aimee LeongGraduate, Bachelor of Information Technology / Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)
“The IT degree at UQ focuses on empowering students to create applications from scratch and learn how to pitch them to clients or employers. Don’t expect to just be sitting in a classroom learning code. Most of my time was taken up by exciting team projects, where we'd come up with a novel idea for an application, get passionate about it, and then actually create it. In this way, I graduated with not only a degree, but also a Portfolio”
Aimee LeongGraduate, Bachelor of Information Technology / Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)
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Entry requirements
Minimum entry score
Check the minimum entry scores for the individual programs. You must meet the higher score.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Entry score threshold
| OP | Rank | IB |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 87 | 32 |
These are the lowest adjusted scores we made an offer to in Semester 1, 2020. 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.
ATAR scores: See QTAC's OP to ATAR conversions (PDF) for a rough guide to equivalent ATARs.
English language requirements
IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL IBT - Overall 87, listening 19, reading 19, writing 21 and speaking 19.
TOEFL PB - Overall 570, listening 54, reading 54, writing 59/5.
Pearsons - Overall Score of 64 and 60 in all sub bands.
BE - A minimum overall grade of 4 plus a minimum grade of C in all macro skills.
CES - Overall 176 and 169 in all sub bands.
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 Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology 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 Commerce/B Info Tech for Semester 1, 2020
| Without adjustments | With adjustments | |
|---|---|---|
| Highest | 2 / 97 | 1 / 99 |
| Median | 6 / 91 | 6 / 91 |
| Lowest | 7 / 87 | 7 / 87 |
Who you'll study with
Here's a snapshot of our student intake for this program in Semester 1, 2020:
| Applicant background | Number of students | Percentage of all students |
|---|---|---|
(A) Higher education study | <5 | <5 |
(B) Vocational Education and Training (VET) study | 0 | 0% |
(C) Work and life experience | <5 | <5 |
| (D) Recent secondary education | ||
| 11 | 61.11% |
| 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 0% |
International students | <5 | <5 |
Total | 18 | 100% |
"<5" — The number of students is less than 5.
N/A — Students not accepted in this category.
N/P — Not published. The number is hidden to protect the privacy of students in other cells.
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.
Graduates typically find careers as accountants or advisers in accounting firms, public and private corporations, management and consulting firms, small businesses, banks and other financial institutions, government departments and not-for-profit organisations.
Business Analytics
Learn 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'll develop skills in areas like data analytics, business analysis, information security and process improvement. By the end of your studies, you'll be ready to provide advice about how technologies and systems can be used to improve business operations.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of industries. Typical roles include business analyst, technology consultant or data analyst.
Finance
It will teach you how 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.
Software Design
Courses in this major focus on programming, software engineering, project management, requirements analysis, specification and the software process, as well as software applications involving Internet design, human-computer interaction, algorithms, data structures and concurrency.
Graduates of the Software Design major typically work in a broad range of roles from software engineer and software developer, to software development manager.
Join a growing industry
- Join a thriving sector of the global IT industry that develops applications such as games, apps for mobile devices, or tools and systems used by individuals, government and companies
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy
- 6 of the 10 most valuable brands in the world are tech companies (Forbes, 2019).
Software Information Systems
Learn about cutting-edge approaches to large-scale database design, including systems which span multiple organisations.
Graduates of the Software Information Systems major typically work in software development companies, or in companies where information systems are deployed, which includes almost every medium to large-scale business or organisation in the world.
Join a growing industry
- Information systems are integral to almost every business and government organisation.
- Design and build the information systems that are used everywhere in our modern life: in retail, banking, healthcare, transport, education, entertainment, science and engineering.
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy.
User Experience Design
This major is intended for students who want to take up careers in the multi-skilled and interdisciplinary field of human-centred design.
UX designers are increasingly sought after across all sectors of ICT, where the combination of people skills along with creativity and technical ability produces graduates who are prepared for the rapidly changing future of technology design.
Career paths can lead to roles as user interface developers, user experience designers, usability specialists, human factors analysts, user researchers and human interface developers.
Graduate in demand
- User Experience (UX) designers are the people who ensure the design of software, websites or technologies meets their intended use – from commercial software to personal fitness apps to games, and everything in between
- Future-proof your career when you graduate with a combination of people skills, creativity and technical abilities
- Design-first thinking is in demand. Service Designer was the #13 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report).
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.
Graduates typically find careers as accountants or advisers in accounting firms, public and private corporations, management and consulting firms, small businesses, banks and other financial institutions, government departments and not-for-profit organisations.
Business Analytics
Learn 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'll develop skills in areas like data analytics, business analysis, information security and process improvement. By the end of your studies, you'll be ready to provide advice about how technologies and systems can be used to improve business operations.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of industries. Typical roles include business analyst, technology consultant or data analyst.
Finance
It will teach you how 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.
Software Design
Courses in this major focus on programming, software engineering, project management, requirements analysis, specification and the software process, as well as software applications involving Internet design, human-computer interaction, algorithms, data structures and concurrency.
Graduates of the Software Design major typically work in a broad range of roles from software engineer and software developer, to software development manager.
Join a growing industry
- Join a thriving sector of the global IT industry that develops applications such as games, apps for mobile devices, or tools and systems used by individuals, government and companies
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy
- 6 of the 10 most valuable brands in the world are tech companies (Forbes, 2019).
Software Information Systems
Learn about cutting-edge approaches to large-scale database design, including systems which span multiple organisations.
Graduates of the Software Information Systems major typically work in software development companies, or in companies where information systems are deployed, which includes almost every medium to large-scale business or organisation in the world.
Join a growing industry
- Information systems are integral to almost every business and government organisation.
- Design and build the information systems that are used everywhere in our modern life: in retail, banking, healthcare, transport, education, entertainment, science and engineering.
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy.
User Experience Design
This major is intended for students who want to take up careers in the multi-skilled and interdisciplinary field of human-centred design.
UX designers are increasingly sought after across all sectors of ICT, where the combination of people skills along with creativity and technical ability produces graduates who are prepared for the rapidly changing future of technology design.
Career paths can lead to roles as user interface developers, user experience designers, usability specialists, human factors analysts, user researchers and human interface developers.
Graduate in demand
- User Experience (UX) designers are the people who ensure the design of software, websites or technologies meets their intended use – from commercial software to personal fitness apps to games, and everything in between
- Future-proof your career when you graduate with a combination of people skills, creativity and technical abilities
- Design-first thinking is in demand. Service Designer was the #13 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report).
Fees and Scholarships
Indicative annual fee
AUD $44,416
Indicative annual fee 2021
This indicative annual fee is the cost of enrolling in the Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology 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.
Indicative annual fee
AUD $11,049
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 Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology 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 Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology 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
How you apply depends on what type of applicant you are.
Your senior schooling is from Australia or New Zealand
Submit your application to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre if you are an international student who is currently:
- completing Australian Year 12 (either in Australia or offshore) or
- studying the International Baccalaureate in Australia.
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology is 711621.
Find out more about applying for undergraduate study
All other international applicants
Submit your application to UQ. If you prefer, you can use an approved UQ agent in your country.
The program code for the Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology is 2339.
Applying through QTAC
All domestic applications should be submitted to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC).
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Commerce / Information Technology is 711621.
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 2 - May 31 of the year of commencement.
- 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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