Course details

Summary

The Bachelor of Business is informed by the latest business research and relevant industry examples, and your final year includes invaluable workplace experience in an organisation of your choice or an applied project. You learn from leading academics at an internationally accredited business school – we’re among an elite group of 5% of business schools worldwide accredited by AACSB International.

Depending on the area you’re focusing on within your Bachelor of Business degree, you can study your first semester, first year or entire degree at the South Campus (subject to availability).

The truly progressive 21st century company embraces innovation in all aspects of its work, and no field of inquiry is as cutting-edge and future-focused as design. Design-led thinking focuses on providing solutions to problems using creativity, technology, customer/user research, insight development and service design. Many leading companies are not only using design concepts to develop high value products, services and brands, but also use this thinking to drive their strategy and direction.
Key features

Increasing demand for design-led thinking
Combines creativity with business acumen
Skills that are useful for many careers
Includes valuable workplace experience in an organisation of your choice

Career opportunities

Design manager or strategist
Entrepreneur
Product development coordinator
Product manager
Service designer
Experience designer

Entry criteria

Applicants must be 18 years old and have obtained a qualification equivalent to New Zealand year 13.

Preferred New Zealand school subjects

All approved NCEA level 2 and 3 language rich subjects, Business, Mathematics and Statistics subjects are useful

English Language requirements:

Minimum IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 overall with all bands 5.5 or higher; TOEFL iBT score of 80; Computer-based: Total score of 213 with a minimum essay rating of 4.0; Certificate in English for Academic Study (CertEAS) with B/B+ grade; GIE with B grade; CAE minimum overall score of 169; PTE minimum overall score of 50.