BCom/BDes - Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Design Conjoint

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The BCom/BDes conjoint gives you an advantage in business and enterprise as you develop skills to be proactive in ever-changing markets with ever-changing technologies.

You can pursue your own interests in a flexible business degree offering a variety of majors. At the same time, you will learn how to research, prototype, test and implement different solutions to business problems, using real-world and imagined scenarios.

Emerging and future technologies will require business nous and design savvy to apply in business. The BCom/BDes gives you the commercial and creative grounding to pursue exciting entrepreneurial careers.

The BCom/BDes usually takes four years to complete.

Your specific enrolment will depend on your chosen majors in the BCom. You will need to complete 540 points:

255 points from BCom courses
255 points from BDes courses:
165 points from BDes core courses
90 points from BDes elective courses
15 points Waipapa Taumata Rau core course
15 points from courses available for any programme

In the BCom, you can choose from 12 majors covering all aspects of business and enterprise operations and strategy. More information on BCom majors.

In your BDes component, alongside design foundation courses and studio practice, you will build your own study plan of six elective courses from our four design themes:

Design and Local Community Practices
Design and Global Challenges
Design and Business
Design and Emerging Technologies

In your final year, you will undertake a capstone design research project, working from the initial discovery phase right through to testing and implementation.

You will probably enrol in nine 15-point courses (135 points) each year if you want to complete in four years. You need to maintain a Grade Point Average of 3.5 each year to continue with your conjoint.

Design is increasing in importance for organisations of all sizes. The ability to respond to market trends and stay ahead of competitors requires companies to invest heavily in design teams. Coupled with specialist commercial knowledge developed in the BCom major of your choice, you will graduate with a multifaceted skill set applicable in, and desired by, many industries.

Business analyst
Experience designer
Innovation manager
Policy adviser
Product designer
Product owner
Project manager
Service designer

Once you become a student at the University, you can get help with planning and developing your career from Career Development and Employability Services.

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Please note: we will consider late applications if places are still available. International students should start the application process as early as possible to allow sufficient time to apply for a visa.

Semester	Application Closing Date	Semester Start Date	Semester End Date
2025 Semester One	08 December 2024	03 March 2025	30 June 2025
2026 Semester One		02 March 2026	29 June 2026

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A student may substitute one or more other courses for one or more of the Bachelor of Commerce Schedule courses with the permission of Senate or its representative.