Programme Requirements for the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) for students who:

1. Matriculate from Academic Year 2024/2025 onwards (August 2024)
2. Matriculate in Academic Year 2023/2024 and have indicated a switch to the newest curriculum

Under the new BBA programme students are enrolled directly into an Honours programme. Students are required to complete 160 Units to graduate.

The degree requirements for the refreshed BBA programme are listed below. For further elaborations on each component, please refer to the drop-down accordions.

BBA Direct Honours Programme Requirements

BBA Honours Degree Requirements (Total 160 units)

Common Curriculum (52 units)

1. General Education Courses
2. Business Environment Courses
3. Cross-Disciplinary Course – Field Service Project
4. Work Experience Milestone (including Career Compass Starter Workshops)
5. Global Experience Milestone

Major Curriculum (60/68/64 units)

• Business Function Courses (6 courses worth 24 Units)1) ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers
  2)  MKT1705 Principles of Marketing
  3) MNO1706 Organisational Behaviour
  4) DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics
  5) DAO2703 Operations and Technology Management
  6) FIN2704 Finance
• Major Requirement Courses
  • Level 2000/3000 courses
    • At least 24 Units restricted to the major for Applied Business Analytics, Business Economics, Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Human Capital Management, Marketing, Operations & Supply Chain Management, some or all of which may be compulsory
    • At least 32 Units restricted to the major for Accountancy, some or all of which may be compulsory
    • At least 28 Units restricted to the major for Real Estate, some or all of which may be compulsory
  • Level 4000 courses
    • 1 Compulsory capstone course
    • At least 8 Units of Level 4000 courses restricted to the major, some or all of which may be compulsory

Unrestricted Elective Courses (48/40/44 units)

Note 1: Students may read up to a maximum of 60 Units of level-1000 courses. Any level-1000 course taken in excess of the 60 Units will not count towards the fulfilment of the degree requirements. For polytechnic graduates, 20 Units of advanced placement credits (exemptions) awarded under Unrestricted Electives from work completed at the polytechnic level, will NOT be counted against the 60 Units limit.

Note 2: A course may be worth 1, 2, 3 or 4 Units. Core, major and elective courses are worth four Units each unless otherwise stated. Additional elective courses of one, two or three Units may be introduced as and when necessary.

All BIZ students will undertake a shared common curriculum structure which allows them to have a holistic and rigorous basic education in business, to gain deep expertise in a chosen primary major and, if so desires, to broaden laterally across to a within-BIZ second major or minor

1) General Education Courses

The University Level Requirement (ULR) is a graduation requirement which comprises General Education, aimed to connect disciplinary knowledge and perspectives with the skills needed for lifelong learning beyond the university.

All students are required to read and pass six General Education (GE) courses, one from each pillar:

• Cultures and Connections
• Singapore Studies
• Critique and Expression
• Data Literacy
• Digital Literacy
• Communities and Engagement

Please refer to this link for the list of courses approved under the six GE pillars.

Students are strongly encouraged to complete the GE courses within the first two years of their candidature.

2) Business Environment Courses

Business Environment courses (20 Units) are the same across all the primary majors offered at BIZ. These courses serve to introduce BIZ students to the various dimensions of the bigger environment in which businesses operate in. These courses are not contextualized to the primary major.

The 6 Business Environment courses are:

• BSP1702 Legal Environment of Business
• BSP1703 Managerial Economics
• DAO1704 Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets
• ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders
• RE1707 Real Estate, Society and Enterprise (2 Units)
• MNO2707 Business Ethics (2 Units)

3) Cross-Disciplinary Course – Field Service Project

This is an 8 Units level 4000 course. It is a consulting practicum in which students form teams of 3 to 4 to solve a real-world business-related problem for a company or other organization over one to two semesters with a NUS supervisor guiding the team. It is a pro-bono project with no payment except for reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs. The business-related problem may be one of organizational strategy, marketing strategy, accounting information system, human resource training programme, etc. Most importantly, the students often must take a cross-disciplinary approach to come up with the solution.

For more information on Field Service Project, please click here.

4) Work Experience Milestone (WEM)

For more information on WEM, please click here.

5) Global Experience Milestone (GEM)

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.

Please click here for general FAQs on the Global Experience Milestone (GEM).

6) Academic Orientation & Intensive Primer Courses (Only applicable to BBA and BBA (Accountancy) students admitted before AY2024/2025)

1) BPM1701 Calculus and Statistics
2) BPM1702 Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for Business
3) BPM1705 Understanding How Business Works

BPM courses are zero-unit graduation requirements for all BBA & BBA (Accountancy) students admitted before AY2024/25.

Cohort 2023 BBA & BBA (Accountancy) students who switched to the new BBA curriculum must still complete the above courses to graduate.

Please click here for FAQs on Academic Orientation and the Intensive Primer Course.

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:

• ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers
• MKT1705 Principles of Marketing
• MNO1706 Organisational Behaviour
• DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics
• DAO2703 Operations & Technology Management
• 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.

The Real Estate major trains real estate professionals to create and manage wealth in the context of the built environment. Recognising that Real Estate is Space and Money over Time, this major is unique in providing an explicit link and interface between the spatial features of Real Estate and its financial attributes. Real Estate graduates play key roles in the development of the built environment as well as in the advancement of the quality of urban living through the transformation and management of real estate resources.

List of Real Estate Major Courses

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.

Under the new BBA curriculum, BHD4002, Honours Dissertation is now offered as an 8-unit level-4000 elective available under the Restricted courses for every BIZ major/2nd major or Unrestricted Electives (UE) space.

The course will provide an option for those students passionate about research to complete a dissertation. For more information, please click here.

An ISC is a non-compulsory, 4-unit course that provides an excellent opportunity for students to engage in in-depth investigation of a particular topic or issue that resides within a business major.  ISC is conducted on 1:1 instructor-student ratio, such that the instructor (i.e. the ISC supervisor) ensures that the student receives dedicated guidance and supervision throughout his/her study and inquiry into the problem statement.  As such, this tailored approach facilitates a deep understanding and mastery of the chosen subject that might not be achievable through standard coursework.

A student considering an ISC should first thoroughly evaluate whether his/her specific academic interests and learning objectives can be met through existing classroom-based courses.  Only if the learning needs remain unmet should he/she proceed with an ISC application, ensuring that this specialized course truly adds value to his/her educational journey.  As the learning and assessment activities for ISC are research in nature, it is essential that ISC takes place over a span of 13-15 weeks within a regular semester.

ISCs are coded at difficulty levels 3xxx and 4xxx (Advanced ISC), where the latter involves relatively greater complexity in terms of the definition of problem statement, the extent of primary data collection, as well as the depth of analysis and interpretation of results.

Students are allowed to read up to a maximum of 8 units of ISC/Advanced ISC.  Only 4 units can be used to count towards a specialisation, a BIZ major, a BIZ 2^nd major, or a BIZ minor.  Students reading the 2017 BBA/BAC curriculum (i.e. the old curriculum) seeking to complete level 4xxx course work to fulfil honours requirements may also read ISC/Advanced ISC for this purpose.  Students who wish to read more than one ISC during their candidature should consult the BBA office (write to BIZ_CourseReg@nus.edu.sg, append the most recent study roadmap and AFG What-if query report) to seek further guidance.

The ISC Application form can be downloaded here All submissions of ISC Application (appended with all necessary supporting documents) for the review/approval by the deanery of Undergraduate Studies should be done latest by the Monday of Week 1 in Semester 1 or 2 of the Academic Year.  Late submissions will not be considered.  Submissions should be made via email to Mr. Liong Wai Loon (wailoon@nus.edu.sg).

For students who are taking ISC with Rex (Research Experience Programme), kindly note that the deadline for the submission of the REx application is by the 3rd week of either Semester 1 or 2 of the Academic Year.  This timeline is independent from the ISC Application deadline stated in the preceding paragraph.

If you have further enquiries about the ISCs courses, please contact Mr Liong Wai Loon (wailoon@nus.edu.sg).

For more information on Advanced Placement Credits (APC), please click here.

Degree Level of BBA students from 2024 cohort onwards

Under the new BBA programme students are enrolled directly into an Honours programme. Students are required to complete 160 Units to graduate. Students’ progress in their course of studies are reflected in their degree level (BIZ1, BIZ2, BIZ3, BIZ4). The criteria for the promotion of a student’s degree level from 2024 intake cohort onwards also applies to cohort 2023 students who switched to the new curriculum. The new promotion criteria are as follows:

• BIZ1: Students who have completed less than 40 Units worth of courses.
• BIZ2: Students who have completed at least 40 Units but less than 80 Units worth of courses.
• BIZ3: Students who have completed at least 80 Units but less than 120 Units worth of courses.
• BIZ4: Students who have completed at least 120 Units worth of courses.

Curriculum FAQ for Cohort 2023 Students

BBA Common Admissions FAQ for New Cohort 2024 and Returning NS Men