The Bachelor of Business Administration Honours Degree builds on the foundational knowledge and equips students with the strategic skills and knowledge essential for managing the key areas of organisations.
The Bachelor of Business Administration Honours programme provides an opportunity for students to realise their career goals through offering relevant knowledge, skills and acumen. It also affords the student an opportunity to continue with a cognate progression into the field of management.
This programme is designed for graduates and professionals from a wide range of business contexts and backgrounds. The programme is intended to provide students with higher level management skills and knowledge of management frameworks, theories and tools and to employ these effectively to make a real difference in their work places.
The Bachelor of Business Administration Honours builds on the foundational knowledge and equips students with the strategic skills and knowledge essential for managing the key areas of organisations: accounting, human resource management, marketing, strategy, and operations management.
This programme is offered through distance learning with online support.
Outcomes
Develop an understanding of a broad range of management functions and their integration, and the critical examination of management practice
Develop key transferable skills with applications in management from a strategic perspective
Demonstrate the ability to apply conceptual and analytical frameworks within different organisational management conditions
Apply creative and critical thinking in solving business-related problems
Attain personal and team goals using individual and interpersonal skills
Demonstrate awareness of ethical and global issues in business
Identify and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made
Develop business policies and strategies for organisations to meet stakeholder requirements
Organise and mobilise the resources of the organisation to achieve strategic goals and targets
Use science and technology effectively and critically, showing ethical responsibility towards the environment and the health/well-being of others
Develop conceptual and applied entrepreneurial skills
Articulation
Completion of a Honours Degree meets the minimum entry requirement for admission to a cognate Master’s Degree.
Curriculum
All students must complete four core modules in the first semester. In semester two, students must complete a research report and two core modules.
Semester 1
Contemporary Human Resource Management
Corporate and Business Strategy
Quantitative Methods and Business Research Methodology
Marketing Management
Semester 2
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Accounting and Financial Management
Research Report
Careers
Embark on a professional path leading to roles such as:
Business Manager/Strategist/ Entrepreneur
Business Consultant
Marketing Executive
Retail Manager
Requirements
The minimum entry requirement is a relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma at NQF level 7. It is possible to gain entry to the programme on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). To be considered via RPL, applicants should be above the age of 30 years.
For further information on this alternative route, please contact a student advisor. All applicants with an international qualification will be considered in accordance with MANCOSA’s institutional rules.
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