Bachelor of Business Administration

Obtain an understanding of the business and management environments by developing your intellectual ability, executive personality, and managerial skills with a MANCOSA Business Administration course that blends business and general education.

The Bachelor of Business Administration is a three-year undergraduate degree programme that equips students with an understanding of business and management environments. The programme aims at developing a student’s intellectual ability, executive personality, and managerial skills through an appropriate blend of business and general education.

Students are able to understand and develop unique leadership qualities required to successfully manage a business. The Business Administration course programme is also designed to produce up-to-date, assertive and effective executives for business and other organisations and prepares students for further studies. The programme covers a variety of business and management principles.

Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the Business Administration course programme, the student should be able to:

• Identify, analyse, formulate, and serve the needs of individuals and society creatively and innovatively.

• Work effectively both on own initiatives and with others as a member of a team, group, organisation, community, and contribute to the group output in tasks growing out of the business, commerce and management fields.

• Manage and organise his or her activities and live responsibly and effectively, including his or her studies within the distance context.

• Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information, as required in the pursuit of the BBA.

• Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical and/or language skills in the modes of oral and/or written presentation in often extensive pieces of sustained discourse.

• Utilise science and technology effectively and critically showing responsibility towards the environment and health and well-being of others, in the community, national and global contexts.

• Demonstrate knowledge in the functional areas of business.

• Apply management principles in a work-based context.

• Anticipate and analyse trends in the business environment.

• Integrate theory and application from various functional areas in an interdisciplinary approach.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation, and by acknowledging their responsibilities to those in the local and broader community.

Programme structure

Year 1

Semester 1

• Introduction to Business Management

• Economics 1A

• End User Computing

• Business Mathematics

Semester 2

• Introduction to Functional Areas of Management

• Economics 1B

• Business Communication

• Financial Reporting and Analysis

Year 2

Semester 1

• Organisational Leadership

• Fundamentals of Human Reseource Management

• Management Accounting

• Business and Society

Semester 2

• Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

• Marketing

• Information Systems

• Business Statistics