Combined Degrees - Engineering and Commerce
The BE BCom is unique to The University of Sydney. It extends the management component of the BE to further satisfy the increasing demand for engineers with business skills. The BE BCom demonstrates Sydney Engineering’s commitment to meeting the changing needs of industry.
The Advantages
- Engineering graduates often become managers. A commerce background helps to speed up that career progress, and makes it more possible.
- Financial skills are valuable to an employer.
- Research shows that industry wants engineers to have better business skills.
Engineers are trained to solve problems, to work in teams and to communicate with people, and to be mathematically capable: all important in management.
Structure of the Course
You can combine any Bachelor of Engineering specialisation with the B Commerce. The combined program allows for one major and one minor in any area of Commerce. Some courses in the BE B Commerce are compulsory. These are the introductory courses in Accounting 1, Economics 1, and the Faculty of Engineering’s business and management skills courses. B Commerce can be done with any strand of engineering.
Range of Choices Available in Commerce
Some courses in the BE BCom are compulsory. These are the introductory courses of Accounting 1, Economics 1, and Econometrics 1, and the Faculty of Engineering’s business and management skills courses. During the years in Commerce, engineering students can also follow sequences of subjects in, for example:
- marketing
- economics
- econometrics
- e commerce
- finance
- industrial relations
- commercial law
- information systems
- management decision-making
- accounting
- resource allocation and planning
- operations management.
Engineers with financial experience are increasingly sort after by employers to manage infrastructure investments