Curriculum AY2023/2024 Onwards

The Major Curriculum comprises Business Function courses (24 Units) and Restricted Courses (at least 36 Units), making a total of at least 60 Units.

Business Function Courses

Business Function courses (24 Units) are the same across all the primary majors offered at BIZ. Each course represents a basic functional area of a business and is not contextualised to the primary major. These 6 courses, together with the Business Environment courses (20 Units), provide a holistic and rigorous foundation for a business undergraduate degree.
The 6 Business Function courses are:

1. ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers
2. MKT1705 Principles of Marketing
3. MNO1706 Organisational Behaviour
4. DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics
5. DAO2703 Operations & Technology Management
6. FIN2704 Finance

Restricted Courses

Restricted Courses (36 Units to 44 Units) are almost entirely courses that are highly contextualized to the (primary) major, and so the set of courses for each major will be almost entirely different, save for some courses that are cross-listed across two/more majors.
In essence, for each major, the structure of Restricted Courses space comprises:
1) At least 24 Units of level 2000/3000 courses, some or all of which may be compulsory
2) A compulsory 4 Units capstone course for the major (level 4000)

• BSP4701 Strategic Management – for all Business Major (except Accountancy & Real Estate)
• ACC4701 Integrated Perspectives in Accounting and Business – Accountancy major
• RE4701 Real Estate Development – Real Estate Major

3) At least 8 Units of level 4000 courses, some or all of which may be compulsory
Please take note, Points (2) and (3), together with the compulsory Field Service Project, is the default minimum requirement for an honours degree.

Students are highly encouraged to pursue a second major or minor with Unrestricted Elective Courses. Under this component, students may take any course to fulfil their Unrestricted Elective Courses requirement. That is, they may take courses offered by the Business School and/or courses offered outside the School to fulfil this requirement.

Major & Minors

Students from Academic Year 2023/2024 whom have decided to make the curriculum switch as well as students matriculating in Academic Year 2024/2025 would have a curriculum that is one-third unrestricted electives, this would allow students to have a higher degree of freedom to broaden their university education and enhance their learning experience.
Students would be able to take up a 2nd Major or Minor within or outside of NUS Business School.
Within NUS Business School, students can take up a 2nd Major/Minor from the 9 Majors available in the BBA Programme.
Outside of NUS Business School, students can take up a 2nd Major/Minor from other faculties in NUS.

Field Service Project (FSP) course is a team based project course for Business School Honours students only.The purpose of FSP is to provide students a true learning experience by partnering with an established organization in Singapore. It is also an opportunity for the students to serve and contribute to businesses, social enterprises and not for profit organizations.
Students get to learn about an organization’s business model, value propositions, operations and imbibe the entrepreneurial passion and leadership from the CEO/leaders.
In return, students will provide an informative and diagnostic report (with the guidance of a supervisor) to the organizations to help propel the organizations forward in today’s challenging business environments.
Through these projects, we hope the students are able to gain a new perspective into the real world.

Benefits

FSP provides a great opportunity for students to work alongside with an established organization. Students get to learn directly from the leaders/CEOs and their businesses while in engaging real-world business issues beyond what they have already learned in NUS and many more.
It is also an excellent networking platform for students to get acquainted with people from different organizations, business backgrounds, skills, expertise, etc. This will improve the student’s networking skills and also expand their networking group.

Field Service Project Guidelines

Click here to download the FSP Guidelines.

Upcoming Projects

Click here to login to FSP portal to apply for FSP projects

The Enterprise 50 (E50) FSP

The Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards are jointly organized annually by The Business Times and KPMG to recognize and reward the 50 most enterprising local SMEs across all industry sectors. It is sponsored by OCBC Bank and supported by IDA, IE Singapore and Spring Singapore.
At the beginning of 2009, NUS Business School partnered with the E50 organisers to embark on a new educational project, which involves teams of BBA honours students working closely with each of the 2008 E50 winning companies to understand and study their business models, value propositions, business operations as well as their entrepreneurial passion, and leadership ideology. The students would then write a report in the form of an article profiling each company.
Beyond these profile reports, the student teams also write confidential in-depth consulting reports for the E50 winning companies. These reports, complete with the students’ recommendations for the companies, are also formally presented by the student teams to the CEOs and their senior management teams.
This project has since grown in reach and popularity, and is set to continue in the years to come.

Supervisors

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all faculty members for their contributions and guidance in supervising the FSP.
Department of Accounting
Department of Analytics & Operations
Department of Finance
Department of Management & Organisation
Department of Marketing
Department of Real Estate
Department of Strategy & Policy

Contact/Enquiries

For further enquiries about FSP, students looking for a team or supervisor, etc, please contact Mr Chew Jian Dee on bizcjd@nus.edu.sg

The Work Experience Milestone (WEM) is a graduating requirement under the new 2023/24 BBA curriculum. The objective is to equip students with workplace-ready skills prior to graduation.
The Work Experience Milestone involves completing:

• two Career Starter Workshops (i.e. STR1000 and STR2000) AND,
• one type of internship (credit bearing internship or non-credit bearing internship)

Students are expected to complete the Work Experience Milestone before they apply for graduation (AFG).

A) Career Compass Starter Workshops

The Career Compass Starter workshops are conducted by the BIZCareers office to help students prepare for their internships and careers.
Please refer here for more details.

B) Credit bearing Internship

Please refer to NUS BIZ Business Internship Courses website here, for more details.
Internships under the Work-Study Internship programme (i.e. BWS3XXX course codes) can be counted as a credit-bearing internship under WEM.
Credit-bearing internships under NUS Centre for future-ready Graduates (i.e. CFG2101 Vacation Internship programme) can be counted as a credit-bearing internship under WEM.

C) Non-credit bearing Internship

Approved internships on non-credit bearing basis (0-unit) can be counted under the WEM.
Please refer here for more details.

The objective of this milestone is to expose BIZ students to a foreign country to experience a different academic, work, social and/or cultural environment. GEM aligns with Singapore’s positioning as a global/regional business hub in which more future job roles will be regional or international in nature.
To complete the GEM, the student needs to complete a significant and approved overseas experience. The minimum will be a 5-day study trip with deliverables. The most common way to complete GEM will be through an overseas exchange stint (through the Student Exchange Programme) or an overseas summer/winter school. Other alternatives are overseas internship, overseas community project, overseas competition, etc. Financial assistance is available for financially-challenged students.
For more information on Exchange Programmes, please click here.