Finance:Bachelor of Business Science

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The Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSci) is a four-year honours level degree providing for a scientifically based study of economic and management sciences, "premised on the application of quantitative methods".[1] The degree is offered in South Africa , and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.

Structure

The BBusSci "allows for intensive specialization" in the degree major[2] and thus comprises a four-year Honours level program. It differs from the Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) - the three year Bachelor's degree in business and economics usually offered in South Africa - in that, additional to the treatment of the major, all students are exposed to management theory in some depth. Further, majors in various quantitative-based subjects are available under the BBusSci, while these are not offered in (most) BComm programs; relatedly, all students must take a full first-year mathematics course, in addition to courses in statistics. For a comparison with other undergraduate degrees in business and management, see discussion under Business education, and compare Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

A student reading the Business Science degree will be able to specialise in the following subjects:

Institutions

The degree is offered by several South African universities (all offer the BComm): The University of Cape Town has offered the BBusSci degree since 1968;[3] The University of KwaZulu Natal,[2] Rhodes University[1] and Monash University in South Africa[4] have offered the degree more recently.

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) [5] and UNISA[6] both have departments of business and management "Science", although do not grant the BBusSci qualification; Wits, in its BComm, requires compulsory credits in "Computational Mathematics" (calculus and matrix algebra) and statistics,[7] and allows Commerce students to major in quantitative subjects - if combined with economics - through the BEconSci.[8]

Elsewhere, the degree is offered by the University of Delhi[9] in India ; by Strathmore University[10] in Kenya and by the Faculty of Business in University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.[11]


See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rhodes University: FACULTY OF COMMERCE". https://www.ru.ac.za/facultyofcommerce/studying/links/bachelorofbusinessscience/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Faculty of Management Studies: UKZN". http://clm.ukzn.ac.za/Libraries/Information_for_students/CLM_sflb.sflb.ashx. 
  3. ↑ "Management Studies: Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town". http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/managementstudies/bbussci. 
  4. ↑ "Monash University Handbook 2011". http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/4415.html. 
  5. ↑ "Wits: School of Economic & Business Sciences". http://uamp.wits.ac.za/sebs/. 
  6. ↑ UNISA: School of Management Sciences
  7. ↑ BCom Curriculum , wits.ac.za
  8. ↑ Undergraduate: BEconSci , wits.ac.za
  9. ↑ University of Delhi: Course information
  10. ↑ "Strathmore University: School of Finance and Applied Economics". http://www.strathmore.edu/pdf/actuarial.pdf. 
  11. ↑ "Undergraduate Studies". https://uom.lk/business/undergraduate-studies. 



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