This joint degree, completed full-time over 4 years, will cover a balance of study areas across business and the humanities. Depending on your desired career path and whether you study in Townsville or Cairns, you have a choice majors including Accounting, Economics, Human Resources Management and International Business, to name a few. Some of these majors are available to study online, giving you greater flexibility while you study. From Arts, you can enhance your study with Psychology, Political Science or Indigenous Studies among other majors on offer. Depending on your choices of majors you may be eligible for registration with professional bodies within your chosen fields of study. Please view the Professional Recognition section of your desired majors under the single degrees for the Bachelor of Business and the Bachelor of Arts for more information.

There are many and varied pathways for graduates of this joint degree. There are a number of possible combinations of majors – for example you could study a language with your choice of business major; or include psychology which provides graduates with an insight into human behaviour and how this impacts on organisations within the context of recruitment, employee relations and human resources. As an Arts-Business graduate you may pursue careers in management, or as a consultant in a wide range of organisations in the private sector, research and government departments. Graduates can also pursue additional study to teach in schools or in higher education. Alternatively, with further study, you can go on to contribute to higher education and research.