Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Mathematics

Combining business and mathematics offers diverse and sustainable career opportunities. Your mathematics degree will prepare you for a career in finance investment information technology environmental management health marketing logistics defence media education and research. In the business component of this double degree you will gain broad-based business knowledge and skills that will prepare you for any business role along with the specialist skills and knowledge in your choice of business major. Graduates may find employment as accountants advertising professionals finance consultants economists human resource managers international business specialists managers marketing officers public relations officers or risk managers.

• An economics major may be useful to chart a career in actuarial areas of insurance and superannuation although further study is required in order to qualify as an actuary.
• A key role of accountants is analysing and interpreting financial data to provide business advice to clients and the quantitative skills in the mathematics degree enhance this process.
• Advanced statistical analysis skills may assist marketing professionals while knowledge of logistics can assist managers in a wide range of industries.
• The financial sector employs qualitative analysts to optimise returns in both the short-term and long-term trading and pricing derivatives to analyse quantitative risk and work in investment strategy.

Both degrees allow you to satisfy the requirements of membership of the relevant professional body for your chosen majors.

• Bachelor of Business
• Bachelor of Mathematics

High-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in BS63 Bachelor of Business (Honours).

High-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in MS10 Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours).

• Account executive
• Accountant
• Actuary
• Banker
• Banking and finance professional
• Business analyst
• Certified practicing accountant
• Corporate secretary
• Economist
• Financial advisor/analyst
• Financial project manager
• Funds manager
• Government officer
• Investment manager
• Market research manager
• Mathematician
• Quantitative analyst
• Risk manager
• Statistician
• Stockbroker

Students are required to complete 384 credit points comprised of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Mathematics program and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business program.

• eight Business School core units (96 credit points) including MGB227 (see below)*
• eight major core units (96 credit points)

*Please note that BSB123 Data Analysis (one of the Business School core units) is not required as the content of MXB107 covers similar topics. MGB227 Entrepreneurship replaces BSB123.

*Accounting major students complete six business core units and 10 accounting major units to allow them to complete professional requirements.

• 96 credit points (8 units) of Core units which include 12 credit points (1 unit) of Core Option units selected from an approved list.
• 96 credit points (8 units) of Major Core units

Mathematics core units

These units give you the grounding in mathematical theory and practice upon which your major units will build and also provide an introductory taste of each of the three majors: applied and computational mathematics; operations research; and statistics.

Core option units

You may choose from a wide variety of introductory units from other disciplines offered at QUT or you may choose additional mathematics units. The additional mathematics units include a unit specially designed to assist students without a background of successful study in Mathematics C at high school; an alternative unit aimed at high achieving students that explores some interesting and unusual aspects of mathematics in some detail; and a unit introducing the field of computational and simulation science which combines mathematics science and computing to simulate real-world problems.

Students are required to complete 384 credit points comprised of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Mathematics program and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business program.

• eight Business School core units (96 credit points) including MGB227 (see below)*
• eight major core units (96 credit points)

*Please note that BSB123 Data Analysis (one of the Business School core units) is not required as the content of MXB107 covers similar topics. MGB227 Entrepreneurship replaces BSB123.

*Accounting major students complete six business core units and 10 accounting major units to allow them to complete professional requirements.

• 96 credit points (8 units) of Core units which include 12 credit points (1 unit) of Core Option units selected from an approved list.
• 96 credit points (8 units) of Major Core units

Mathematics core units

These units give you the grounding in mathematical theory and practice upon which your major units will build and also provide an introductory taste of each of the three majors: applied and computational mathematics; operations research; and statistics.

Core option units

You may choose from a wide variety of introductory units from other disciplines offered at QUT or you may choose additional mathematics units. The additional mathematics units include a unit specially designed to assist students without a background of successful study in Mathematics C at high school; an alternative unit aimed at high achieving students that explores some interesting and unusual aspects of mathematics in some detail; and a unit introducing the field of computational and simulation science which combines mathematics science and computing to simulate real-world problems.