Bond Business School’s accelerated program means you can complete an undergraduate and master’s degree in just two years and eight months, at one of the top business schools in the world.
The combined program allows students interested in a career in finance, accounting or actuarial science to graduate ahead of their peers at other universities, where most undergraduate degrees alone take three years to complete. Bond Business School is ranked among the top 2% of business schools in the world and is accredited by AACSB and EQUIS.
Explore the available undergraduate degrees and pathways below and start your career sooner with Bond Business School.
The benefit of this combination is you:
- can major in Big Data or Economics or Accounting,
- have the option to achieve the University component of the Actuary Program qualification with the Actuaries Institute,
- have the option to specialise in Finance,
- have the option to choose a pathway towards a HDR program (PhD) without completing M.Phil,
- have the option to choose subjects to achieve accredited accounting qualification.
A Bachelor of Actuarial Science includes the units relevant to the Foundation Program accreditation with the Actuaries Institute and a Master of Finance allows completion of the Actuary Program accreditation units Actuarial Control Cycle 1 & 2 and Statistical Learning and Regression Models as elective subjects.
Successful completion of this recommended pathway can result in you graduating with an undergraduate and postgraduate qualification that includes the Foundation Program and the University component of the Actuary Program accreditations with the Actuaries Institute in only 2 years and 8 months.
The benefit of this combination is it provides an opportunity for you to gain a professional accounting qualification with strong analytical and quantitative skills.
The Bachelor of Commerce provides a degree of flexibility to choose a major and work in areas such as Economics, Finance and Actuarial Science, and Master of Accounting graduates are eligible for employment in professional accounting practices (public accounting or chartered accountants).
The benefit of this combination is the Bachelor of Commerce will lay a platform for you to work in a range of disciplines including climatology, consulting, data analytics, e-commerce, economics, finance, health, insurance, infrastructure, research, risk management, statistics, superannuation and technology.
The Master of Actuarial Science provides an opportunity for you to complete Actuarial Science Part I subjects with core skills in accounting, economics and finance. The combined program will develop 'big data' number crunching skills that will allow you to create practical solutions for real-world problems.
The benefit of this combination is the Bachelor of Commerce equips students with strong analytical and quantitative skills. Master of Business Data Analytics teaches you to then learn the technical data skills and how to apply that to real-life scenarios in a way that will impact behaviour.
Data Analytics has become one of the highest growth areas of academic and commercial practice. With applications in nearly all aspects of quantitative endeavours and information management, this combined program will provide you with a skill set in analytics, statistical and machine learning which is highly sought after in a range of industry sectors such as health, marketing and finance.
You would want to complete this combination because it provides an opportunity for you to gain a postgraduate degree in Finance with strong analytical and quantitative skills through our Bachelor of Commerce program with a major in Actuarial Science or Accounting or Economics.
The Master of Finance qualification from Bond University prepares you for an executive career in finance, commercial banks, insurance sectors, property investment, superannuation funds, stockbrokers and corporate treasuries. The Bachelor of Commerce provides a degree of flexibility to work and major in accounting, actuarial science and economics.
The benefit of this combination is the Bachelor of Commerce equips you with strong analytical and quantitative skills and the Master of Financial Management gives you leadership skills.
It provides an opportunity for you to gain the flexibility to specialise in Big Data, Digital Business, International Business, Marketing or Tourism and Hotel Management as it prepares you for a financial management role within a corporation, consulting firm or accounting firm.
Our academics
Learn under the guidance of internationally accomplished academic experts in Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Accounting and Finance.
Professor
Steven Stern
Professor of Data Science
Bond Business School
Assistant Professor
Sean Elliott
Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science
Bond Business School
Associate Professor
Colette Southam
Associate Professor of Finance
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Assistant Professor
Jan Hollindale
Under Graduate Program Director
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Associate Professor
Adrian Gepp
Associate Professor of Statistics
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