
Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Applied Innovation
60.0
Choose your major
Accounting
Learn to deliver insights that drive business outcomes, while appreciating how profit and purpose are the foundations of future, sustainable business.
Business Administration
Gain an essential understanding of business operations, including organisational behaviour and managing workplace relations, alongside a range of practical skills.
Business Analytics and Analysis
Business analysts often act as bridges between management and those with more technological leanings. This major will teach you how to speak both business and tech languages.
Entrepreneurship
Develop the type of fresh thinking required to build, launch and scale a start-up business or social venture.
Finance
This CFA-affiliated program is designed to build careers in investment banking, financial consultancy, asset management, financial securities, trading stocks and brokerage.
Financial Planning
Help people get the most out of their money with essential financial planning skills. Investments, taxation and more, you’ll also learn about the ethical issues when managing a client’s finances.
Human Resource Management
Discover how to manage people, create a productive working environment and build a positive workplace culture.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Equip yourself with the skills needed to access career opportunities in logistics and supply chain management, international trade, procurement, inventory management and distribution.
Management
Learn about the role of management in business and discover how key resources must be strategically planned, effectively deployed, monitored and controlled to meet strategic business objectives.
Marketing
Develop the advanced marketing and managerial skills needed to think strategically and succeed in this exciting industry.
Sports Management
Develop the business mindset needed to run sport organisations and venues, identify risks and seize opportunities.
Overview
Anyone can enter the world of business, but not everyone will succeed. Learn essential management skills to carve out career success with a Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Applied Innovation. You'll collaborate and solve complex problems in a creative way and be able to develop and deliver projects that adapt to uncertain and changing contexts. Prepare to be job-ready.
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Your industry experience
We offer hands-on learning that mirrors the industry – it’s just like working in an innovation lab. You’ll take part in industry projects, design challenges, innovation sprints, and hackathons. This double degree teaches you how the industry does innovation.
Skills you’ll learn
- Communication skills
- Teamwork skills
- Broad business knowledge
- Critical thinking
- Creative problem-solving
- Adaptability
Your career opportunities
- Innovation manager
- Business analyst
- Sustainability manager
- Innovation lead
- Start-up founder
- Product manager
Key codes
International student visa
International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.
Professional accreditations
Why Swinburne?
Top 5% of the world’s higher education business schools
Top 300 for business and economics
#1 in Melbourne for student support
#1 in Melbourne for graduate salary one year out

Olivia's Next Gen_ Story
It’s this piece of paper – a Swinburne double degree in Engineering and Business - that has prepared Olivia to start her career in the real world. Where there’s hard work, there’s also play. Olivia makes the perfect balance between her studies, and taking full advantage of the extracurricular activities Swinburne has on offer. It’s more than a piece of paper.