What does it take to start a successful new business, to lead an organisation, to plan and manage a complex project? How do leaders negotiate, resolve conflict, and manage across cultures in the global workplace?

The BBA will answer these questions and, more importantly, help you develop skills to go out and do these things in the real world.

The BBA is flexible so you can build on your strengths. For example, you have a wide choice about how much mathematical content to include in your degree.

Explore the complex and fascinating world of genetics and unravel the mysteries of DNA with the ANU Bachelor of Genetics.

You’ll learn how genes hold our hereditary information, study classical genetics, molecular genetics, population genetics, and bioinformatics. You can even follow interests in areas as diverse as plant genetics, evolutionary genetics or medicine and health.

Studying at ANU means you’ll be exposed to ground-breaking research being undertaken by our academics in active research laboratories at the Research School of Biology and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia’s national medical research institute.

Find out more about genetics, the degree structure, the university experience, career opportunities and student stories on our website.

Get the inside story on what it’s like to be an ANU student by visiting our student blog.

This program is not available for Semester 2 commencement.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates from the Bachelor of Business Administration are:

• Junior knowledge workers in the private or public sectors challenged by the complexity of modern organisations
• Young entrepreneurs from a range of industries
• Early career employees from diverse backgrounds needing management knowledge and skills to enhance their career prospects
• Junior consultants seeking leading-edge thinking on management practice policy advisers designing, implementing or evaluating policies
• Entry-level management, leadership, consultant, coordination or administration positions in areas such as sales, advertising, marketing, corporate services, tourism, hospitality, health, welfare, social services, administration, public relations, policy, planning, production, education services, customer services, facilities and construction.

Who go on to become:

• Business Consultants
• Officers in the Australian Public Service
• Managers
• Marketing representatives
• Entrepreneurs
• and leaders in many other influential roles.

A range of work-integrated and experiential learning courses are also available as electives, such as:

• CBE Internship Project (6u or 12u)
• Australian National Internships Program Internship
• Special Industry Project
• Global Business Immersion
• Australian and First Nations Business Immersion

Graduates from the Bachelor of Business Administration are:

• Junior knowledge workers in the private or public sectors challenged by the complexity of modern organisations
• Young entrepreneurs from a range of industries
• Early career employees from diverse backgrounds needing management knowledge and skills to enhance their career prospects
• Junior consultants seeking leading-edge thinking on management practice policy advisers designing, implementing or evaluating policies
• Entry-level management, leadership, consultant, coordination or administration positions in areas such as sales, advertising, marketing, corporate services, tourism, hospitality, health, welfare, social services, administration, public relations, policy, planning, production, education services, customer services, facilities and construction.

Who go on to become:

• Business Consultants
• Officers in the Australian Public Service
• Managers
• Marketing representatives
• Entrepreneurs
• and leaders in many other influential roles.

A range of work-integrated and experiential learning courses are also available as electives, such as:

• CBE Internship Project (6u or 12u)
• Australian National Internships Program Internship
• Special Industry Project
• Global Business Immersion
• Australian and First Nations Business Immersion

Learning Outcomes

1. review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge, from both Indigenous Australian peoples' and non-indigenous peoples' perspectives, as well as locally and globally
2. demonstrate a broad understanding of management and leadership knowledge with depth in some areas
3. present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of management knowledge and ideas
4. exercise expertise in critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence
5. demonstrate initiative and judgement in planning, problem solving and decision making in professional practice and/or scholarship
6. adapt knowledge and skills in diverse business contexts
7. demonstrate responsibility and accountability for own learning and professional practice and in collaboration with others within broad parameters
8. employ discipline-based knowledge in transdisciplinary problem-solving

1. understand and evaluate the significance of genetic information and discoveries in educational and professional contexts;
2. apply a range of skills and laboratory genetic techniques to addressing specific problems in the field of genetic research;
3. use a range of analytical techniques for the interpretation of genetic data to address specific hypotheses;
4. convey and relate professional and disciplinary information and ideas to diverse audiences in effective and appropriate ways;
5. demonstrate the application of genetics to real life, professional and societal contexts.

Further Information

Electives: 

Students have:

• a minimum of 24 units of electives that can be selected from CBE or other Colleges, and
• when completing a single degree program, an additional 48 units of ANU wide electives that can be selected from CBE or other Colleges.

No more than 10 courses at 1000 level.

Students wish to undertake an out of college elective may contact the relevant College directly.

Student Responsibility:

It is the student's responsibility to select electives in such a way that:

• they satisfy prerequisites for the corresponding course/s.
• they conform to the rules set out in Programs and Courses or if unsure seek advice from the CBE Student Services team.

It is the student's responsibility to select the courses appropriate for their program.

Electives: 

Students have:

• a minimum of 24 units of electives that can be selected from CBE or other Colleges, and
• when completing a single degree program, an additional 48 units of ANU wide electives that can be selected from CBE or other Colleges.

No more than 10 courses at 1000 level.

Students wish to undertake an out of college elective may contact the relevant College directly.

Student Responsibility:

It is the student's responsibility to select electives in such a way that:

• they satisfy prerequisites for the corresponding course/s.
• they conform to the rules set out in Programs and Courses or if unsure seek advice from the CBE Student Services team.

It is the student's responsibility to select the courses appropriate for their program.

Admission Requirements

Prerequisites

ACT: Chemistry

NSW: Chemistry or equivalent

VIC: Chemistry

QLD: Chemistry

TAS: Chemistry

SA / NT: Chemistry

WA: Chemistry

IB: Chemistry SL or HL

• More information about interstate subject equivalencies can be found here .
• Students who do not meet the chemistry requirement are advised to seek academic advice by contacting students.cos@anu.edu.au. A Chemistry bridging course is available in February through the ANU Research School of Chemistry - contact rsc.teaching@anu.edu.au for more information.

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are combined with an applicant's secondary education results to determine their Selection Rank. ANU offers adjustment factors based on equity, diversity, and/or performance principles, such as for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies.

To be eligible for adjustment factors, you must have:

• achieved a Selection Rank of 70 or more before adjustment factors are applied
• if you have undertaken higher education, completed less than one year full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) of a higher education program
• applied for an eligible ANU bachelor degree program

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Business Administration flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

A minimum of 12 units of courses tagged as Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving

The 96 units must include:

60 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

BUSI2025 - International Business (6 units)

BUSN1001 - Business Reporting and Analysis (6 units)

ECON1101 - Microeconomics 1 (6 units)

ECON1102 - Macroeconomics 1 (6 units)

MGMT1003 - Management, People and Organisations (6 units)

MGMT2003 - Business Decision Making (6 units)

MGMT2030 - Human Resource Management and Strategy (6 units)

MGMT2100 - Communication for Business (6 units)

MGMT3021 - Leadership (6 units)

MKTG2004 - Introduction to Marketing (6 units)

12 units from completion of Transdisciplinary courses from the following list:

MGMT3015 - Corporate Strategy (6 units)

MGMT3027 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (6 units)

Either:

12 units from completion of courses from the following list:

BUSI3024 - Export Business Planning (6 units)

CBEA2001 - Indigenous Perspectives in Business (6 units)

CBEA3001 - College of Business and Economics Special Industry Project (6 units)

CBEA3066 - Global Business Immersion (6 units)

CBEA3070 - ANU College of Business and Economics Internship Program (UG) (6 or 12 units)

12 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

Or:

24 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

If your flexible double degree is within the College of Business and Economics (for example Commerce and Economics), the below study plan may show the same course twice. If this is the case, you must only do the course once and replace the other course with a University Wide Elective.

For majors and minors offered by the ANU College of Business and Economics, students may count a course towards multiple majors and minors. If a minor is a subset of all stated courses and/or prerequisites for a major, then completion of the major overrides completion of the minor, and only the major is regarded as having been completed. If all courses in a major and/or minor are compulsory courses in the degree, the major and/or minor will not be listed on the transcript.

The Bachelor of Genetics flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 36 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

42 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

BIOL1003 Biology 1: Evolution, Ecology & Genetics (6 units)

BIOL1004 Biology 2: Molecular & Cell Biology (6 units)

BIOL2151 Genetics (6 units)

BIOL2161 Genes: Replication and Expression (6 units)

BIOL3161 Genomics & its Applications (6 units)

BIOL3204 Genetics of Human Disease 1 (6 units)

CHEM1101 Chemistry 1 (6 units)

6 units from completion of a Quantitative Skills course from the following list:

BIOL2001 Introduction to Quantitative Biology (6 units)

BIOL2202 Experimental Design and Analysis in Biology (6 units)

6 units from completion of a courses from the following list:

BIOL3191 Bioethics and Society (6 units)

BIOL3194 Biological Science in the Work Place (6 units)

A minimum of 30 units from completion of courses from from the following lists, which must include a minimum of 12 units from 3000-level courses:

BIAN3113 Human Evolution (6 units)

BIOL1009 Diversity of Life (6 units)

BIOL2114 Evolution (6 units)

BIOL3002 Plants: Genes and the Environment (6 units)

BIOL3109 Developmental Biology (6 units)

BIOL3157 Bioinformatics and Its Applications (6 units)

BIOL3178 Recovering Threatened Species and Ecosystems (6 units)

BIOL3205 Genetics of Human Disease 2 (6 units)

BIOL3206 Evolution of Biodiversity (6 units)

BIOL3207 Data Science for Biologists (6 units)

 BIOL3213 Australian Wildlife (6 units)

COMP1730 Programming for Scientists (6 units)

A maximum of 12 units from completion of research project/topics courses from the following list, in which the project/topic must be in the field of Genetics:

BIOL3023 Special Topics in Biology (6 units)

BIOL3208 Biology Research Project (6 units)

BIOL3209 Biology Research Project (12 units)

A maximum of 12 units from completion of courses not previously taken from the following subject areas:

BIOL – Biology

MEDN – Medical Science

NEUR – Neuroscience

Study Options