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Bachelor of Commerce - Individual Major

  • Upcoming start dates

    Semester 2 - 15 Jul 2024

    November Summer School - 11 Nov 2024

    Semester 1 - 17 Feb 2025

  • Qualification

    Bachelors

  • Duration

    3 years full-time

  • Credits

    360

  • Location

    Lincoln University Campus

Commerce and value chains are at the heart of global economies. Being able to design strategies that respond to what’s happening in the global economy is essential to creating commercial advantage. Lincoln University’s BCom allows you to design your own major by combining core courses with electives.

As the global economy has grown and become more interconnected, businesses everywhere have become more dependent on international markets for both customers and raw materials. As these businesses grow and evolve, there will be a growing need for graduates of Lincoln University’s Bachelor of Commerce to apply your learning and experience in taking goods and services from Aotearoa-New Zealand to the world and bringing the world back to us.

How you’ll grow

  • This three year, full-time degree will allow you to cultivate your knowledge in areas such as global supply chains, food and resource economics, and business systems and principles.
  • How accounting, finance and business strategies create commercial advantages that can be leveraged across markets and through commercial partnerships.
  • Create your own Bachelor of Commerce and expand your value by building on the core compulsory courses, then adding electives of your choice. 

Career opportunities

A Bachelor of Commerce from Lincoln prepares you for a wide range of business careers. You’ll be a strong candidate for a variety of roles across a broad range of organisations and businesses.

Upon successful completion of this degree programme, you will be awarded a Bachelor of Commerce with an Individual Major.

Programme information

Programme Structure

Your Individual Major must have two areas of focus. Choose two 300-level courses from two different subject areas, such as two Accounting courses (ACCT prefix) and two Marketing courses (MKTG prefix). 300-level courses are usually taken in your third study year.

You must pass at least five courses at the 300-level and all compulsory courses. 

Subject areas for your Individual Major are ACCT, BMGT, ECON, FINC, MGMT, MKTG, VAPM.

Year 1

Semester 1 courses

Semester 2 courses

Year 2

Semester 1 courses

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Semester 2 courses

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Year 3

Semester 1 courses

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Semester 2 courses

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  • Compulsory courses
  • Elective courses

A course advisor will help you to select your electives and plan your degree. You can check out our courses to see what electives might interest you.

Interested?

Here are your next steps

Programme contacts

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Lilly Zhao

Lecturer

lilly.zhao@lincoln.ac.nz

Scholarships

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