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UBC Bachelor of Commerce

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A UBC BCom will help you build the solid foundation of business basics and management skills you’ll need to thrive in any career you choose. You’ll sharpen your skills in critical thinking, creative problem-solving, communication, organization, and leadership.

Completing your degree

As you complete your BCom program, you’ll take required courses that cover key business foundations, elective courses, and also courses from your choice of specialization that focus on a particular business discipline. 

Required courses

Throughout your four year BCom degree, you’ll complete required courses that will give you a strong foundation in key business fundamentals, leadership and management skills. 

Choose a specialization

In your third and fourth years, choose from ten primary specialization within the program.

Accounting
Business Technology Management
Entrepreneurship
Finance
General Business Management

Global Supply Chain and Logisitcs Management
Marketing
Operations and Logistics
Organizational Behaivour and Human Resources
Real Estate

Year 1: Building a foundation
 

Required courses

  • Business Fundamentals
  • Values, Ethics and Community
  • Introduction to Quantitative Decision Making
  • Application of Statistics in Business
  • Management and Organizational Behaviour

 

  • Business Communications
  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Principle of Macroeconomics
  • Differential Calculus with Applications
  • Non-commerce electives

Year 2: Learning fundamentals
 

Required courses

  • Career Fundamentals
  • Managing the Employment Relationship 
  • Logistics and Operations Management
  • Introduction to Management Information Systems
  • Financial Accounting

 

  • Managerial Accounting
  • Managerial Economics
  • Introduction to Marketing
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Non-commerce electives

Year 3: Selecting a specialization
 

Required courses

  • Commercial Law

  • Environment, Society and Government

  • Business Communications
  • Required courses for specialization
  • Commerce and non-Commerce electives

Choose a specialization

Your UBC BCom will give you the knowledge and skills to apply to just about any career that interests you. In your third and fourth years, you’ll get to shape your own career path by taking courses that focus on a particular discipline of business. Choose from ten primary specializations, also referred to as ‘options’ within the program.

Year 4: Integrating knowledge and skills
 

Required courses

  • Capstone Experience

  • Strategic Management

  • Required courses for specialization
  • Commerce and non-Commerce electives

Continue your specialization

Your UBC BCom will give you the knowledge and skills to apply to just about any career that interests you. In your third and fourth years, you’ll get to shape your own career path by taking courses that focus on a particular discipline of business. Choose from ten primary specializations, also referred to as ‘options’ within the program.

Study globally

UBC Sauder boasts a distinct international perspective on business. Our global reach helps you gain valuable opportunities to study abroad and experience other cultures while completing your degree.

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