Bachelor of Business Science
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The Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSci) is a one-year honours level degree providing for a scientifically based study of economic and management sciences, "premised on the application of quantitative methods". The degree is offered in South Africa, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.
Structure
The BBusSci "allows for intensive specialization" in the degree major{{Cite web |url=http://clm.ukzn.ac.za/Libraries/Information_for_students/CLM_sflb.sflb.ashx |title=Faculty of Management Studies: UKZN |access-date=2012-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116113610/http://clm.ukzn.ac.za/Libraries/Information_for_students/CLM_sflb.sflb.ashx |archive-date=2012-11-16 |url-status=dead }} and thus comprises a four-year Honours level program. It differs from the Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) - the three year Bachelor's degree in business and economics usually offered in South Africa - in that, additional to the treatment of the major, all students are exposed to management theory in some depth. Further, majors in various quantitative-based subjects are available under the BBusSci, while these are not offered in (most) BComm programs; relatedly, all students must take a full first-year mathematics course, in addition to courses in statistics. For a comparison with other undergraduate degrees in business and management, see discussion under Business education, and compare Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
A student reading the Business Science degree will be able to specialise in the following subjects:
Institutions
The degree is offered by several South African universities (all offer the BComm): The University of Cape Town has offered the BBusSci degree since 1968;{{Cite web |url=http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/managementstudies/bbussci |title=Management Studies: Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town |access-date=2008-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621175316/http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/managementstudies/bbussci/ |archive-date=2008-06-21 |url-status=dead }} The University of KwaZulu Natal, Rhodes University{{Cite web |url=https://www.ru.ac.za/facultyofcommerce/studying/links/bachelorofbusinessscience/ |title=Rhodes University: FACULTY OF COMMERCE |access-date=2014-11-06 }} and Monash University in South Africa{{Cite web |url=http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/4415.html |title=Monash University Handbook 2011 |access-date=2011-09-14 |archive-date=2017-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626125525/http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/4415.html |url-status=dead }} have offered the degree more recently.
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) {{Cite web |url=http://uamp.wits.ac.za/sebs/ |title=Wits: School of Economic & Business Sciences |access-date=2010-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502032826/http://uamp.wits.ac.za/sebs/ |archive-date=2010-05-02 |url-status=dead }} and UNISA[http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=18012 UNISA: School of Management Sciences] both have departments of business and management "Science", although do not grant the BBusSci qualification; Wits, in its BComm, requires compulsory credits in "Computational Mathematics" (calculus and matrix algebra) and statistics,[http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/clm/sebs/undergraduatestudy/10905/bcom.html BCom Curriculum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928033117/http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/clm/sebs/undergraduatestudy/10905/bcom.html |date=2011-09-28 }}, wits.ac.za and allows Commerce students to major in quantitative subjects - if combined with economics - through the BEconSci.[http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/clm/sebs/undergraduatestudy/10903/beconsci.html Undergraduate: BEconSci] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928033712/http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/clm/sebs/undergraduatestudy/10903/beconsci.html |date=2011-09-28 }}, wits.ac.za
Elsewhere, the degree is offered by the University of Delhi[http://www.du.ac.in/course_details.html?department_id=Undergraduate+Courses&coursename=B.B.S.&course_id=26 University of Delhi: Course information] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409050619/http://www.du.ac.in/course_details.html?department_id=Undergraduate+Courses&coursename=B.B.S.&course_id=26 |date=April 9, 2010 }} in India; by Strathmore University{{Cite web |url=http://www.strathmore.edu/pdf/actuarial.pdf |title=Strathmore University: School of Finance and Applied Economics |access-date=2010-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606014719/http://www.strathmore.edu/pdf/actuarial.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead }} in Kenya and by the Faculty of Business in University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.{{Cite web |title=Undergraduate Studies |url=https://uom.lk/business/undergraduate-studies |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=University of Moratuwa}} In some universities in Spain, in Europe, such as Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, it is also offered as Bachelor in Business Sciences - Management.
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