Business (Economics), Bachelor

Build a strong foundation in contemporary business through La Trobe's Bachelor of Business. This flexible degree prepares you to excel in a digitally disrupted world and advance your ideal career in business.In your first year, you will explore various business disciplines and develop core skills in management, organisational structures, data analytics, and ethical practices. You can select from a wide array of majors, minors, and second majors, while pairing your major with complementary studies from other fields.

As a social science, economics is an exciting and challenging discipline that explores real-world issues and analyses ways to improve the well-being of people and the societies we live in. This major will give you valuable insights into the application of economic principles to develop government policy, business solutions and understand the choices people make. Analyse important issues such as poverty, inequality, inflation, unemployment, environmental issues, innovation, digital transformation, international competition, trade and economic development, many of which relate to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The key graduate attributes that a major in economics develop are critical thinking, problem solving, researching and evaluating information. Overall you gain the skills for careers in economic and social policy, business, banking, financial markets and consulting.