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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, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, Egypt, and additional Commonwealth countries; however, the degree is no longer offered in the United Kingdom.

Structure

Common areas of study

Bachelor of Commerce

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, actuarial studies, business management, human resources and marketing; some programs also require business statistics and -calculus, 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.

Honours Bachelor of Commerce

The Honours Bachelor of Commerce (BCom (Hons) or BComm (Hons) or HBCom or HBComm) is further advanced. 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 degree requires additional academic courses to be completed with higher academic performance standards and may also require a researched thesis component. The degree has a specialization aspect, analogous to the BBA; the one-year program is typically focused exclusively on a single subject-area.[5][6]

The Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree often serves as an abridgement (or entry requirement) between the undergraduate program and postgraduate programs,B.Com (Hons.) is a business-oriented course that develops the student's business skills and provides in-depth knowledge of the field of commerce. Students pursuing this course will have an advantage if they want to pursue Chartered Accountancy side-by-side.[7] including the Master of Commerce (M.Com. or M.Comm.) and the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees.

Duration

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 and the Netherlands. In Nepal, the duration of the program can be three years.

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, [1] the BCom/AD Commerce degree lasts two years, the BCom (Hons) degree lasts three years, and a four-year program leads to the BS (Hons) Commerce degree.

History

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

References

  1. ^ "Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom) - Varsity College". www.varsitycollege.co.za. Archived from the original on 2017-08-31.
  2. ^ "Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Bcom)- University Canada West". ucanwest.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07.
  3. ^ The University of Ontario Institute of Technology. "Commerce - Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)". www.uoit.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  4. ^ "sydney.edu.au". Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  5. ^ "Qualifications". www.unisa.ac.za. Archived from the original on 2014-02-16.
  6. ^ "wits.ac.za". Archived from the original on 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  7. ^ "BCom Students - Faculty of Business and Economics". bcom.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2012-03-16.
  8. ^ "B.Com - Bachelors of Degree – Commerce Stream Course". www.makkarcollege.com. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
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