Education and Business

The world of business is fast-paced, challenging and always evolving. This double degree sets you up to enter the arena with confidence, as well as giving you the expertise to help young people to do the same.

Breaking down this degree

This course leads to two separate degrees. Depending on your specialisation, you’ll graduate with a Bachelor of Business and either the:

• Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Primary Education
• Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Secondary Education

Specialise in primary education and you’ll be able to teach across the school curriculum, with an in-depth knowledge of business. Specialise in secondary education and you’ll qualify as a specialist teacher of accounting, economics or management studies.

What you’ll be learning

Along with your foundational studies of business, you’ll have a number of majors to choose from. From accounting to economics, banking to finance, business law to business strategy, this is your opportunity to get stuck into an area you’re particularly interested in.

Combined with your education studies, you’ll learn how to be an innovative and effective teacher, with the capacity to bring out the business smarts in young people.

Look ahead to an exciting career

With speciality business acumen, you can share your expertise with young learners, or look beyond the classroom to get involved in the business side of schools – such as in educational management and leadership, marketing or school administration.

About registration and accreditation

Here’s what you need to know:

• All primary and secondary education specialisations are accredited by the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) using national accreditation standards.
• This means your qualification will be accepted in Victoria and all other Australian states and territories.