Program Overview

Dreaming of a career in legal practice? Or perhaps you want to make your mark in the business world? Whatever your ambitions, you’ll stand out with UNSW’s Bachelor of Commerce/Law. Gain a strong understanding of business and a comprehensive legal education that will set you apart and prepare you to make a difference in the world.

In UNSW's Bachelor of Commerce/Law, you’ll learn core business principles in a range of disciplines before specialising in subjects that align with your interests and career ambitions. Become an expert in accounting, business, analytics, economics, finance,human resource management, information systems, marketing, taxation, or focus on emerging areas like fintech and cybersecurity management.

Your specialised business knowledge will be underpinned by a deep understanding of the law that sets your skills apart in both the legal and business worlds, gaining a strong understanding of the legal processes, systems and frameworks that govern our society. You’ll build a robust knowledge of how the law and business interact, and gain hands-on legal experience.

No matter which direction you choose to take your career, graduating with a law and commerce double degree from UNSW will prepare you for success with the knowledge, work experience and connections and professional skills to provide strategic commercial and legal advice in the real world.

Major: Business Economics
Studying economics will equip you with the analytical tools and critical thinking skills to understand and make an impact on some of our greatest global challenges. UNSW offers diverse economics specialisations and courses across a number of different degrees, allowing you to tailor your expertise to the areas that interest you. These include:  

• Economic Policy and Society
  Understand economic theory and analysis. Learn how it is applied in the real-world through business, government and policy.  
• Macroeconomics and Financial Markets
  Macroeconomics is the study of how governments manage economies to improve lives and create growth. Financial economics explores financial markets and risk management. Learn how these influential forces interact.
• Data Analytics and Econometrics
  Learn economic methods for organising, modelling, and analysing large and complex data.  
• Business Economics
  Use economic theory and quantitative methods to understand and analyse the financial, organisational and market-related issues faced by businesses.
• Behavioural Economics
  Apply insights about human decision-making and individual choices to business and policy scenarios.
• Economics and Finance
  Study how individuals, firms, financial institutions and government interact in financial markets. Analyse economic decision making in the context of real-world events through this Master of Commerce specialisation.
• Applied Economics
  Prepare to become a professional economist. Gain advanced knowledge and practical skills in economics, as well as research and communications skills through the Master of Applied Economics.