Bachelor of Commerce Major in Business Analysis

The STADIO BCom degree with a major in Business Analysis will equip you with conceptual understanding, knowledge, theory, skills, methodology and capacity to function effectively in the business analysis environment of the future.

You will gain advanced management and business analysis knowledge and skills, enabling you to analyse business needs, engage effectively with stakeholders and contribute to sound and ethical decision-making in a rapidly changing business environment driven by technological advancement. In the first year of study, the focus is on laying a solid foundation in supporting areas of knowledge, including mathematical concepts and principles, statistics, legal principles, data and decision-making, economics, accounting and business management.

In the second and third years, the focus increasingly shifts towards Business Analysis. You will develop knowledge and skills in Business Analysis Principles, Stakeholder Engagement, Requirements Modelling and Solution Evaluation, preparing you to identify business needs, analyse requirements, evaluate potential solutions and support organisational change. At the same time, you will continue to develop broader commerce capabilities through areas such as Financial Management, Global Citizenship, Strategic Management, and Technology and Innovation Management.

Lastly, you will be introduced to research and complete an extensive 25-credit Project in the third year of your studies. The project is informed by research and provides an opportunity to integrate and apply the understanding, knowledge, theory and skills developed across the programme, including those relevant to Business Analysis.

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THE ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR THE BACHELOR OF COMMERCE ARE:

• Senior Certificate (SC) with degree endorsement and a minimum symbol of E in Mathematics HG, or D in Mathematics SG; OR

• A National Senior Certificate (NSC) with a minimum of 50% in four 20-credit subjects, and a minimum of 40% in English Home Language or First Additional Language, and a minimum of 40% in Mathematics or 60% in Mathematical Literacy; OR

• A National Senior Certificate – Vocational Level 4 (NC(V)) with a minimum of 60% in three fundamental subjects including English and Mathematics; and minimum 70% in four vocational subjects; OR

• A National N Diploma in the field of Business, Commerce or Management. Students admitted via this option will be registered for the mathematics academic support module in their first semester; OR

• A cognate Higher Certificate (NQF Level 5), Advanced Certificate (NQF Level 6), or Diploma (NQF Level 6); OR

• A non-cognate Higher Certificate (NQF Level 5), Advanced Certificate (NQF Level 6), or Diploma (NQF Level 6), together with either:

  • a minimum of 40% in English Home Language or English First Additional Language, and a minimum of 40% in Mathematics or 60% in Mathematical Literacy at NSC level; or

  • evidence of equivalent proficiency in English and Mathematics achieved in the non-cognate programme.

Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for Mathematics but who have degree endorsement, will be conditionally admitted and registered for the mathematics academic support module in their first semester.

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Upon completion of the Bachelor of Commerce, students will be able to:

• Operate responsibly, legally, and ethically in a commercial environment, with due consideration to cultural diversity, the social reality and the need for transformation in South Africa.

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of the changing business environment and harness technological advances and other innovations appropriately across the areas of responsibility.

• Apply a range of appropriate methods from the field of accounting, economics, and management to solve business problems and to implement solutions in a competitive business environment.

• Conduct basic research with a view of finding solutions to contemporary business problems.

• Demonstrate an adaptive mindset to stay abreast of developments in the business world and show due regard for the need for sustainability.

The Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Business Analysis will equip graduates for jobs such as:

• Junior Business Analyst

• Junior Business Process / Systems Analyst

• Business Architect

• Product Owner / Consultant

• Digital Transformation

• Specialist