Bachelor of Commerce

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A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, baccalaureates

commercii) is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded
in Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South
Africa, Myanmar, Egypt, and additional Commonwealth countries. The degree was
previously offered in the United Kingdom.

Contents

 1Structure
o 1.1Bachelor of Commerce
o 1.2Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
o 1.3Duration
 2History
 3See also
 4References

Structure[edit]
Common areas of study

 Accounting
 Actuarial science
 Advertising
 Assurance
 Business System Analysis
 Banking
 Business economics
 Computers and Management
Information Systems
 Decision Analysis
 Economics and Econometrics
 Electronic commerce
 Entrepreneurship
 Finance and Financial Markets
 Government
 Human Resources
 Industrial Psychology
 Information Management
 Insurance
 Labor Relations
  Law
 Logistics Management
 Management
 Management science
 Marketing and Communications
 Operations Management
 Organizational studies
 Politics and Public Policy
 Supply chain management
 Risk Management / Financial
Risk Management
 Strategic Management
 Statistics
 Taxation
 Transport Economics

Bachelor of Commerce[edit]
The Bachelor of Commerce degree[1] is designed to provide students with a wide range
of managerial skills, while building competence in a particular area of business (see
aside). Most universities, therefore, plan the degree such that in addition to their major,
students are exposed to general business principles, taking courses in accounting,
finance, economics, business management, human resources and marketing. Programs
often require foundational courses in business statistics and mathematics, and
information systems. Depending on the institution, a formal academic major may or may
not be established. Regardless, a Bachelor of Commerce degree requires students to
take the majority of their courses in business-related subjects, including the aside,
among others.
For a comparison with other business degrees, see Business education
§ Undergraduate education.
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)[edit]
The Honours Bachelor of Commerce (HonsBCom or BComm (Hons) or HBCom or
HBComm) is further advanced. The degree has a specialization aspect, analogous to
the BBA, developing the student's business skills and/or providing in-depth knowledge
of the field.
It requires additional academic courses to be completed, and usually with higher
academic performance standards, and may also require a
researched thesis component. It often serves as an abridgement (or entry requirement)
between the undergraduate program and postgraduate programs, including the Master
of Commerce (M.Com. or M.Comm.) and the Master of Business Administration (MBA)
degrees.
It may consist of a four-year program[2][3] or of a one-year program taken subsequent to a
three-year Bachelor's degree;[4] the one-year program is typically focused exclusively on
a single subject-area.[5][6][7]
Duration[edit]
The curriculum generally lasts three years in Australia, New Zealand, India,
[8]
 Malta, South Africa, some parts of Canada, and Hong Kong. The curriculum requires
four years of study in the Republic of Ireland, the majority of Canada, Ghana,
the Philippines, the Netherlands, and Nepal.
In South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and some universities in India, the BCom
(Hons) degree is considered an additional postgraduate qualification, whereas in Malta,
an additional year of study is not considered a postgraduate qualification. In Pakistan,
the BCom Pass/ Associate of Commerce degree lasts two years, the BCom (Hons) now
named BS Commerce in the country and it lasts four years.

History[edit]
See also: Birmingham Business School (University of Birmingham) §  History and background

The Bachelor of Commerce degree was first offered at the University of Birmingham.

The University's School of Commerce was founded by William Ashley, an Englishman
from Oxford University, who was the first professor of Political Economy and
Constitutional History in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Toronto. Ashley left
Toronto in 1892, spent a few years at Harvard University, and then went back to
England to the new University of Birmingham where he founded the School of
Commerce. Ashley began the program which was the forerunner of many other BCom
degree programs throughout the British Empire.
Eighteenth-century economists had divided the English economy into three sectors:
agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce. Commerce included the transportation,
marketing and financing of goods. The Birmingham program in commerce included
economic geography, economic history, general economics, modern languages, and
accountancy.

See also[edit]
 Bachelor of Accountancy
 Bachelor of Business
 Bachelor of Business Administration
 Bachelor of Business Science
 Bachelor of Economics
 Business school
 Master of Commerce