Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management
Overview
Prepare to shape the digital future and thrive in competitive business environments.
The pace of change in digital technologies is extraordinary.
The dual Bachelor of Computer Science / Bachelor of Business Management program is designed to position you as a strategic business leader, ready to tackle the technological and business challenges of the future.
Gain a deeper understanding of all aspects of computer technology and graduate with technical skills that will allow you to create and analyse computer-based systems, while developing skills that will help you adapt in rapidly changing business environments.
You'll study topics including entrepreneurship, human resources, marketing, management, business technologies, and advanced computing applications.
Graduate ready to launch into an exciting career with skills that are in high demand from some of the world’s biggest technology corporations.
Program highlights
- Graduate with skills that are in high demand by some of the world's largest corporations, such as Apple, Google, Oracle, Telstra and Microsoft.
- Participate in applied projects and real-life case studies.
- Benefit from guest lectures by industry experts.
- Take advantage of opportunities for placements and internships with leading businesses.
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
- Business Economics
- Business Information Systems
- Cyber Security
- Data Science
How you'll learn
Your learning experiences are designed to best suit the learning outcomes of the courses you choose.
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Seminars
- Workshops
What you'll study
At UQ, degrees are called 'programs' and subjects are called 'courses'.
Career possibilities
Our programs prepare you for your first job and beyond. Depending on which major you choose, here are some of the careers you could be on your way to:
- Data scientist
- Cyber security analyst
- Machine learning engineer
- Technical business analyst
- Business development manager
- Information systems designer
- Business analyst
- Security architect
Graduate salary
Computing and information systems (undergraduate)
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Professional memberships
When you graduate, you may be eligible for memberships with the following professional organisations. Contact the organisation to find out how to become a member.
- Australian Human Resources Institute
- Australian Marketing Institute
- Economic Society of Australia
What I like most about my program is its relevancy. The assignments have real-world application and present you with challenges like those you’d face in the industry.
I have developed leadership, communication, and teamwork skills through my program. The experience of working with real companies during internships through UQ has given me the edge to be prepared for the real work environment after graduation.
What I like most about my program is its relevancy. The assignments have real-world application and present you with challenges like those you’d face in the industry.
I have developed leadership, communication, and teamwork skills through my program. The experience of working with real companies during internships through UQ has given me the edge to be prepared for the real work environment after graduation.
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Entry requirements
Prerequisites
Students without Specialist Mathematics (or equivalent) may be required to undertake preparatory courses beyond the 64 units for the program and may not be able to complete the program in the minimum time frame without overloading or undertaking summer study.
Prerequisites
Students without Specialist Mathematics (or equivalent) may be required to undertake preparatory courses beyond the 64 units for the program and may not be able to complete the program in the minimum time frame without overloading or undertaking summer study.
Minimum entry score
Check the minimum entry scores for the individual programs. You must meet the higher score.
Entry score threshold
| ATAR / Rank | IB |
|---|---|
| 84 | 30.5 |
These are the lowest adjusted scores we made an offer to in Semester 1, 2024. Entry scores are based on the most recent Semester 1 intake and are updated in April each year. Meeting the entry score threshold doesn't guarantee admission.
Guarantee your place at UQ: If you meet our guaranteed minimum ATAR you could secure an offer for your preferred program.
English language requirements
IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL iBT (including Paper Edition) - Overall 87, listening 19, reading 19, writing 21 and speaking 19.
PTE Academic - Overall Score of 64 and 60 in all sub bands.
BE - A minimum overall grade of 4 plus a minimum grade of C in all macro skills.
CES - Overall 176 and 169 in all sub bands.
OET is not accepted.
There are other ways to meet the English language requirements. For some programs, additional conditions apply.
Student visas
International students who are accepted into full-time study in the Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management are eligible to apply for an Australian student visa (subclass 500).
There are a number of requirements you must satisfy before a visa is granted, including the Genuine Student (GS) requirement.
Entry score range
This table shows the range of entry scores for recent secondary students offered a place in the B Computer Sci/B Business Mgmt for Semester 1, 2024
| Without adjustments | With adjustments | |
|---|---|---|
| Highest | 99.55 | 99.95 |
| Median | 92.05 | 93.05 |
| Lowest | 83.5 | 85.5 |
Who you'll study with
Here's a snapshot of our student intake for this program in Semester 1, 2024:
| Applicant background | Number of students | Percentage of all students |
|---|---|---|
(A) Higher education study | <5 | <5 |
(B) Vocational Education and Training (VET) study | 0 | 0% |
(C) Work and life experience | 0 | 0% |
| (D) Recent secondary education | ||
| 6 | 66.7% |
| 0 | 0% |
| 0 | 0% |
International students | <5 | <5 |
Total | 9 | 100% |
"<5" — The number of students is less than 5.
N/A — Students not accepted in this category.
N/P — Not published. The number is hidden to protect the privacy of students in other cells.
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Majors
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
It also develops useful skills for marketing, purchasing and human resource management.
You'll learn about growth strategies, modelling, forecasting, scenario planning, demand analysis, pricing policies, competitive strategies, capital budgeting, investment and cost-benefit analysis.
This major will prepare you for a career in banking, financial services, consultancy or public sector organisations.
You'll develop skills in areas like data analytics, business analysis, information security and process improvement. By the end of your studies, you'll be ready to provide advice about how technologies and systems can be used to improve business operations.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of industries. Typical roles include business analyst, technology consultant or data analyst.
By studying cyber security, you'll learn the fundamental processes and practices to protect computing systems from attack, damage or unauthorised access.
You'll study secure programming techniques and ethical hacking to safeguard individuals, businesses and governments against cybercrime, and you'll graduate with highly valued and employable skills.
Career paths can lead to roles such as cyber security analyst, cyber systems engineer or information security officer.
Join a growing industry
- Cyber security specialist was the #2 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
- By 2026, Australia will need 18,000 more cyber security workers
- Australia’s external spending on cyber security products and services grew by 8 per cent in 2018 to $3.9 billion (Australian Cyber Security Growth Network).
You'll learn comprehensive and fundamental techniques for end-to-end processing that transforms data into information, and prepare to become one of the new breed of data science professionals.
This major will prepare you for a career in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Join a growing industry
- The rise of big data means data scientists are now some of the most in-demand professionals in the world
- Data scientist was the #7 top emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain competence required for their roles.
You'll study topics including employment relations and workplace conflict, selection and recruitment, organisational change, performance management and leadership. The courses in this major cover Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.
This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.
You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.
Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value. Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.
You’ll also have the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond. These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.
You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key topics including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.
You’ll learn how to manage and lead teams through rapid change and disruption, globalisation, and various sustainability and corporate social responsibility challenges.
The courses you study will develop your ability to think independently, make evidence-based decisions, communicate effectively, identify and solve problems, collaborate and work effectively across cultures and functions.
This major will prepare you for graduate-level leadership and managerial positions. It can also enhance employability skills that will be useful for anyone aspiring to transition their technical knowledge to leadership and managerial roles in the future.
These algorithms allow computers do things like automatically identify and harness useful data to help decision-making, find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look, and predict outcomes to help authorities design effective policies.
You'll graduate with skills at the forefront of this massive growth area, as society looks for automated solutions to enhance business and our lives through the use of computing systems and data.
These skills can be applied in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Join a growing industry
- Artificial intelligence specialist was the #1 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
- AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030 (PwC research)
- New AI technologies will require highly-skilled workers who can develop and maintain complex systems and applications.
You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.
The courses in this major will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.
This major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.
Covering the different paradigms of programming, this major focuses on the design of computer languages that can be easily used to create programs.
You will study the craft and science of programming, and graduate with the skills to enable the construction of effective programming languages and reliable software.
Career paths often lead to roles in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Programming opens doors beyond tech
- Programmers write software that can be used to create websites, build computer networks, help doctors treat patients, or even drive a car
- Half of all programming roles are in finance, manufacturing, health care and other sectors outside of the technology industry
- Coding skills can take you places: data analytics, scientists, engineers and designers all use coding.
But computers are also digital systems, which require discrete inputs and outputs, while mathematical analysis often relies on continuous functions. Therefore, careful approximations are needed to allow computers to analyse complex mathematical functions.
You will study algorithms for mathematical analysis and graduate with skills used in various scientific endeavours across the public and private sectors, including in hospitals and university medical research, and big pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies.
Join a growing industry
- Help solve the complex scientific problems of the future using mathematical analysis
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy
- Data engineer was the #8 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report).
Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:
It also develops useful skills for marketing, purchasing and human resource management.
You'll learn about growth strategies, modelling, forecasting, scenario planning, demand analysis, pricing policies, competitive strategies, capital budgeting, investment and cost-benefit analysis.
This major will prepare you for a career in banking, financial services, consultancy or public sector organisations.
You'll develop skills in areas like data analytics, business analysis, information security and process improvement. By the end of your studies, you'll be ready to provide advice about how technologies and systems can be used to improve business operations.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of industries. Typical roles include business analyst, technology consultant or data analyst.
By studying cyber security, you'll learn the fundamental processes and practices to protect computing systems from attack, damage or unauthorised access.
You'll study secure programming techniques and ethical hacking to safeguard individuals, businesses and governments against cybercrime, and you'll graduate with highly valued and employable skills.
Career paths can lead to roles such as cyber security analyst, cyber systems engineer or information security officer.
Join a growing industry
- Cyber security specialist was the #2 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
- By 2026, Australia will need 18,000 more cyber security workers
- Australia’s external spending on cyber security products and services grew by 8 per cent in 2018 to $3.9 billion (Australian Cyber Security Growth Network).
You'll learn comprehensive and fundamental techniques for end-to-end processing that transforms data into information, and prepare to become one of the new breed of data science professionals.
This major will prepare you for a career in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Join a growing industry
- The rise of big data means data scientists are now some of the most in-demand professionals in the world
- Data scientist was the #7 top emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain competence required for their roles.
You'll study topics including employment relations and workplace conflict, selection and recruitment, organisational change, performance management and leadership. The courses in this major cover Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.
This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.
You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.
Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value. Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.
You’ll also have the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond. These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.
You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key topics including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.
This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.
You’ll learn how to manage and lead teams through rapid change and disruption, globalisation, and various sustainability and corporate social responsibility challenges.
The courses you study will develop your ability to think independently, make evidence-based decisions, communicate effectively, identify and solve problems, collaborate and work effectively across cultures and functions.
This major will prepare you for graduate-level leadership and managerial positions. It can also enhance employability skills that will be useful for anyone aspiring to transition their technical knowledge to leadership and managerial roles in the future.
These algorithms allow computers do things like automatically identify and harness useful data to help decision-making, find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look, and predict outcomes to help authorities design effective policies.
You'll graduate with skills at the forefront of this massive growth area, as society looks for automated solutions to enhance business and our lives through the use of computing systems and data.
These skills can be applied in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Join a growing industry
- Artificial intelligence specialist was the #1 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report)
- AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030 (PwC research)
- New AI technologies will require highly-skilled workers who can develop and maintain complex systems and applications.
You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.
The courses in this major will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.
This major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.
Covering the different paradigms of programming, this major focuses on the design of computer languages that can be easily used to create programs.
You will study the craft and science of programming, and graduate with the skills to enable the construction of effective programming languages and reliable software.
Career paths often lead to roles in government departments, consultancy or private sector organisations.
Programming opens doors beyond tech
- Programmers write software that can be used to create websites, build computer networks, help doctors treat patients, or even drive a car
- Half of all programming roles are in finance, manufacturing, health care and other sectors outside of the technology industry
- Coding skills can take you places: data analytics, scientists, engineers and designers all use coding.
But computers are also digital systems, which require discrete inputs and outputs, while mathematical analysis often relies on continuous functions. Therefore, careful approximations are needed to allow computers to analyse complex mathematical functions.
You will study algorithms for mathematical analysis and graduate with skills used in various scientific endeavours across the public and private sectors, including in hospitals and university medical research, and big pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies.
Join a growing industry
- Help solve the complex scientific problems of the future using mathematical analysis
- The digital technology sector is one of the fastest growing parts of Australia’s economy
- Data engineer was the #8 emerging job of 2020 (LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report).
Fees and Scholarships
Indicative annual fee
Approximate yearly cost of tuition (16 units). Your fees will vary according to your selected courses and study load. Fees are reviewed each year and may increase.
$11,190
2024
$11,190
2024
Approximate yearly cost of tuition (16 units). Your fees will vary according to your study load. Fees are reviewed each year and may increase.
AUD $50,440
2024
AUD $50,440
2024
Government assistance
Financial aid
As an international student, you might be eligible for financial aid – either from your home country, or from the Australian Government.
HECS-HELP
Domestic places in the Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management are Commonwealth Supported. This means the cost of your education is shared between you and the Australian Government.
Instead of tuition fees, Commonwealth Supported students pay what are called student contribution amounts.
HECS-HELP is an Australian Government loan scheme to assist eligible students with the cost of their student contribution amounts.
Centrelink support
The Australian Government offers a number of income-support payments to eligible Australian university students.
Scholarships
You may be eligible for more than 100 scholarships, including:
How to apply
Applying online
If your senior schooling is from outside Australia, you can submit your application to UQ. Or, if you prefer, you can use an approved UQ agent in your country.
The program code for the Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management is 2463.
Find out more about applying for undergraduate study
If your senior schooling is from Australia
Submit your application to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre if you're an international student who is currently studying:
- Australian Year 12 (in Australia or another country), or
- the International Baccalaureate in Australia.
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management is 733701.
Applying through QTAC
All domestic applications should be submitted to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC).
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Computer Science / Business Management is 733701.
Important dates
If you’re studying Year 12 in Australia, go to the QTAC website to check the closing date for this program.
If you’re applying to UQ, the closing date for this program is:
- To commence study in semester 2 - May 31 of the year of commencement.
- To commence study in semester 1 - November 30 of the previous year.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
Important dates
To check the closing date for this program, go to the QTAC website.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
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