Bachelor of Commerce

A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom or B Com) is an undergraduate degree in commerce, accounting, mathematics, economics, finance and management-related subjects. It is mainly offered in Commonwealth nations.

Structure

The Bachelor of Commerce degree is designed to provide students with a range of applicable commerce-skills, while building competence in a particular area. Programs typically comprise introductory courses in commercial law, business mathematics and business management, as well as foundational courses in accounting and economics. Students then select courses in their specialization or major; often these latter, or in more specific areas such as marketing, risk, finance, operations, human resources, or industrial psychology.

The Honours Bachelor of Commerce (HonsBCom or BComm (Hons) or HBCom) may consist of a four-year program or of a one-year program taken subsequent to a three-year Bachelors; the one-year program is typically focused exclusively on a single subject-area, and may include a research component.

History

The Bachelor of Commerce degree was first offered at the University of Birmingham. The University's School of Commerce was founded by William Ashley, an Englishman from Oxford University, who was the first professor of Political Economy and Constitutional History in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Toronto. Ashley left Toronto in 1892, spent a few years at Harvard University, and then went back to England to the new University of Birmingham where he founded the School of Commerce. Ashley began the programme which was the forerunner of many other BCom degree programmes throughout the British Empire.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom) - Varsity College". www.varsitycollege.co.za. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Available BCom degrees, Athabasca University
  3. ↑ "Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Bcom)- University Canada West". ucanwest.ca. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016.
  4. ↑ The University of Ontario Institute of Technology. "Commerce - Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)". www.uoit.ca. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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  6. ↑ "BCom Students - Faculty of Business and Economics". bcom.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012.
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  9. ↑ "Ashley began the programme which was the forerunner of many other BCom degree programmes throughout the British Empire".