Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Business Analytics
Adelaide, Australia
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2026
TUITION FEES
USD 52,200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Why Bachelor of Commerce?
Businesses across all industries are increasingly relying on data to drive decisions, optimise operations, and innovate products.
In the evolving landscape of business analytics, professionals need a diverse set of skills to stay ahead. Our Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Business Analytics is future-focused, equipping you for success in a digital world. Study industry-standard analytical tools, artificial intelligence, and chatbot design. Learn to interpret and analyse complex data, an essential skill for modern businesses.
Your expertise in analytics, along with your business knowledge, will give you a well-rounded and dynamic skillset. You’ll graduate ready to apply data insights to help businesses achieve their goals, unlocking careers in finance, marketing, healthcare, tech, retail, and government.
Overview
This degree will build broad business knowledge while developing specialised skills in analytics. Learn fundamental business principles in accounting, finance, economics, management, and company law. Explore the intricacies of business analytics, predictive analytics, and chatbot design. Take hands-on courses in data-driven decision-making. Cultivate leadership expertise and learn to solve real-world challenges. Build skills in teamwork, strategic thinking, communication, and cultural competence. Upon graduation, you’ll be equipped to problem-solve at the highest level and excel in business and management roles.
What courses will you study
Complete 144 units comprising:
- 66 units for Core courses, and
- 48 to 54 units for one Major from Majors, and
- 12 units for all work-integrated learning, and
- 12 to 18 units for Electives
Core courses
Common Core
- An Ethically Rich Life
- Fact or Fiction: Data for Everyone
- Igniting Change: Ideas to Action
- Proppa Ways, Future Practice
- Responsible AI: Bridging Ethics, Education, and Industry
- Ways of Being, Ways of Seeing
Program core
- Accounting for Decision Makers
- Business Finance
- Business Law
- Management, Organisations and Leadership
- Data Analytics
- Predictive and Visual Analytics for Managers and Consultants
- Principles of Economics
- Business Applications for Artificial Intelligence
Major courses
- Accounting Systems and Processes
- FinTech and Disruptions in Financial Services
- Chatbot Design and Prompt Engineering
- Business Simulation and Decision Analysis
- Business Analytics in Practice
- Minds and Machines
- Operations and Customer Analytics
- Foundations of Business Analytics
Work-integrated learning
- Business Practicum
- Business Clinic
Electives
- Personal Finance
- Financial Modelling
- Behavioural Finance
- Strategic Financial Analysis
- Alternative Investments
- Global Wealth Management
- Blockchain, Crypto, and Big Data
What you'll learn
Master the skills needed to operate effectively in professional, business-related and technical contexts. In your first year, build your foundational knowledge across a range of business disciplines. You will learn about accounting, finance, economics and leadership and understand the basics of business analytics. From your second and third year, you’ll take specialised business analytics courses, including:
- Operations and customer analytics
- Predictive and visual analytics for managers and consultants
- Chatbot design and prompt engineering
- Business simulation and decision analysis
- Business analytics in practice
- Minds and machines
- Business applications for artificial intelligence.
You’ll have opportunities to customise your learning by selecting three elective courses throughout your studies. Choose electives in distinct areas of business that interest you the most, or opt for an overseas exchange. In your final year, you’ll complete an industry placement to explore your career prospects and build real-world experience.
Career outcomes
You’ll exit Adelaide University ready to make informed business decisions, with a formidable and in-demand skillset. You could be a business intelligence analyst, leveraging cutting-edge technology to transform data into actionable insights. You might help sports teams make strategic decisions about player lineups and tactics. Perhaps you’ll analyse Spotify’s listener habits to craft more engaging playlists.
You could also be a:
- Data analyst
- Management consultant
- Marketing analyst
- Big data analytics specialist
- Consumer insights analyst
- Customer experience manager.
Study hours
Your courses will require a combination of different learning formats, including lectures, tutorials, workshops, seminars and practicals. Aside from your classes, you’ll also need to allocate additional time for independent study. This may include assignments, readings, projects and contributing to online discussion forums. As a rough guide, full-time studies may require 12-26 hours of class time and 14-18 hours of independent study per week.