Bachelor of Aviation Management/Bachelor of Business

Overview

The Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business program equips students with essential skills in both aviation operations and business management. This comprehensive degree focuses on developing professional competencies, enhancing safety and efficiency, and preparing students for leadership roles within the aviation industry.

Graduates will be ready to manage tasks in high-risk, high-consequence, and high-tempo environments, taking on frontline or strategic roles in airline or airport operations, or allied industries. The program also emphasizes the development of technical and professional skills needed to tackle complex problems, preparing students for current and future challenges in various industries.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to: 

Bachelor of Aviation Management:

• As an aviation practitioner, demonstrate coherent understanding and application of the body of knowledge contained within the aviation industry including appropriate international and domestic regulations and organisations
• Employ an entrepreneurial approach in contributing to innovation, development and management of risk, data, technology and change within professional aviation practice
• Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge of Aviation human factors, safety, management and technology to critically analyse and solve aviation business problems, implementing effective solutions in a global aviation context
• Work reflexively in teams and independantly with a focus on safety, integrity, ethics, professionalism, accountability and collaborative leadership to function effectively within the highly dynamic and hazard rich aviation environment
• Employ an adaptable approach, applying risk based decision making to solving real-world aviation problems in commercial, operational and strategic areas
• Demonstrate effective oral, written and visual communication skills to work effectively with internal and external aviation business stakeholders across diverse professional settings

Bachelor of Business:

• Apply and integrate business-relevant knowledge, theories, concepts, technologies, practices and processes
• Obtain, analyse and interpret relevant information and data to make informed business decisions
• Formulate innovative and sustainable solutions to business problems
• Use legal, ethical, and social frameworks to support diversity and equity regarding gender, Indigeneity, and multiculturalism when developing authentic business content
• Effectively communicate business arguments and reasoning to a range of audiences
• Build on business and digital skills to continuously develop the intellectual independence to be critical and reflective learners
• Build on business and digital skills to continuously develop the intellectual independence to be critical and reflective learners

Career opportunities

Graduate are able to pursue roles such as Airline ground operations manager, airport manager, airline operations manager, Aviation Safety Manager, Aviation Consultant, Air Traffic Controller, Aviation Finance Manager, Aviation Marketing Manager, Aviation Business Consultant

Course rules

To qualify for the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business, students must complete a total of 400 credit points, as follows:

• eight (8) Aviation Management core units (100 credit points) AND
• five [5] Business Fundamentals core units (62.5 credit points) AND
  
• three [3] Business Practice units (37.5 credit points) AND
  
• eight (8) units of study from the Aviation discipline major (100 credit points) AND
  
• seven to Eight (7 to 8) units of study from a Business discipline major (87.5 to 100 credit points)*
  
• one (1) Elective unit of study (12.5 credit points)**.
  
  

*Please note that the Accounting Major and the Finance Major has cross crediting. This makes the Finance Major 87.5 credit points and the Accounting Major 100 credit points.

**Only applicable if the Finance Major is chosen.

Students may not complete more than 150 credit points (normally 12 units) at Introductory Level. A unit of study can only be counted once, where units are shared between majors and/or minors, students must choose an approved alternate.

Students looking to achieve CASA professional pilot qualifications must be co-enrolled in the Graduate Certificate of Piloting in order to undertake the requisite flying practicum units (delivered by business partner CAE Melbourne Flight Training).

Domestic students also have an opportunity to undertake a WIL Professional Placement. Please note that due to government regulation international students holding a student visa are not able to undertake Professional Placements in this course.

Volume of learning

The Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business consists of 400 credit points. Units normally carry 12.5 credit points. In each academic year, eight (8) units normally constitute a full-time load of 100 credit points and four (4) units normally constitute a part-time load of 50 credit points.

The volume of learning of the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business is typically 4 years. For students who complete a Professional Placement, the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business consists of 450–500 credit points. Units normally carry 12.5 credit points with placement units carrying 25 credit points each. A standard annual full-time load comprises 100 credit points, and a standard part-time load comprises 50 credit points.

The volume of learning of the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business with a 6-month placement is typically 4.5 years. The volume of learning of the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business with a 12-month placement is typically 5 years.

Professional placements

Professional Placements are subject to a competitive selection process.

Students who undertake a 12-month professional placement are subject to the following course rules and must complete 500 credit points comprising of:

• eight (8) Aviation Management core units (100 credit points) AND
  
• five [5] Business Fundamentals core units (62.5 credit points) AND
• three [3] Business Practice units (37.5 credit points) AND
• eight (8) units of study from the Aviation discipline major (100 credit points) AND
• seven to Eight (7 to 8) units of study from a Business discipline major (87.5 to 100 credit points)*
• one (1) Elective unit of study (12.5 credit points)**AND
• four [4] Professional Placement units (100 credit points).
   

Students who elect to undertake a 6-month professional placement are subject to the following course rules and must complete 450 credit points comprising of:

• eight (8) Aviation Management core units (100 credit points) AND
• five [5] Business Fundamentals core units (62.5 credit points) AND
• three [3] Business Practice units (37.5 credit points) AND
• eight (8) units of study from the Aviation discipline major (100 credit points) AND
• seven to Eight (7 to 8) units of study from a Business discipline major (87.5 to 100 credit points)*
• one (1) Elective unit of study (12.5 credit points)**AND
• two [2] Professional Placement units (50 credit points).

Maximum academic credit

The maximum level of credit that can be granted for the Bachelor of Aviation Management / Bachelor of Business is 200 credit points (normally 16 units). 100 credit points maximum from each discipline.

Professional recognition

The Bachelor of Aviation Management does not have any accreditation by professional bodies.

The Bachelor of Business has professional recognition by various professional bodies depending on units studied. Details are available through the accreditation document for that program.

Graduates with an Accounting or Accounting and Finance major may be eligible to apply for membership of CPA Australia (CPAA), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) or the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).

The Finance major in the Bachelor of Business and related double degrees is recognised under the CFA Institute Affiliated University. The course covers at least 70% of Level 1 of the CFA program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Codes of Ethics and Standards of Practice. This recognition signals to students, employers and the marketplace that Swinburne’s curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well suited to preparing you for employment in the finance and investment industry, and for sitting the CFA examination. Students of the Finance major may be eligible for CFA Program Student Scholarships.

B. Applicants with higher education study

Educational history 

An applicant's entire academic history, including results from previous higher education study will be considered for entry into this course. If previous higher education qualifications are incomplete, results must have been obtained in the last seven years. 

Meeting course prerequisites 

As for Year 12 or equivalent. 

STAT/Bridging courses 

Results from the STAT Multiple Choice will be considered for applicants without an ATAR and whose post-secondary studies do not meet the minimum requirements. Applicants who do not meet the English prerequisites can sit STAT Written English. STAT results are valid for two years.

C. Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study

Educational history 

An applicant's entire academic history from the past seven years, including complete and/or incomplete post-secondary VET studies, will be considered for entry into this course. Only graded results will be considered. 

Meeting course prerequisites 

As for Year 12 or equivalent. 

STAT/Bridging courses 

Results from the STAT Multiple Choice will be considered for applicants without an ATAR and whose post-secondary studies do not meet the minimum requirements. Applicants who do not meet the English prerequisites can sit STAT Written English. STAT results are valid for two years.

D. Applicants with work and life experience

Entire academic record 

This course uses an applicant's entire academic record as part of its selection considerations, including an applicant's ATAR results from the last seven years can be considered for entry into this course. 

Meeting course prerequisites 

As for Year 12 or equivalent. 

STAT/Bridging courses 

Results from the STAT Multiple Choice will be considered for applicants without an ATAR and whose post-secondary studies do not meet the minimum requirements. Applicants who do not meet the English prerequisites can sit STAT Written English. STAT results are valid for two years.