Why Choose Commerce at Melbourne?
The Melbourne Bachelor of Commerce has a proud reputation for excellence. Commerce students have access to world-class facilities, including the use of leading multimedia learning tools. The enhanced curriculum is delivered through research-led teaching, which exposes students to cutting-edge knowledge in a diverse range of business disciplines.
Students are taught by award-winning tutors and lecturers possessing a blend of academic expertise and industry experience. Our lecturers also carry out research and write texts that inform managers worldwide.
Examples include:
- Two Nobel laureates – Professor Sir James Mirrlees and Professor Sir Clive Granger. Both joined the University for a three year period in 2005.
- Professor Jeff Borland, recipient of the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006. This award recognises Professor Borland’s record of high quality teaching, innovation in the development of curriculum and teaching methods, and activities to promote student development.
- Professor Nilss Olekalns, Associate Professor Carol Johnston, Mr Paul Andonov and Ms Nahid Khan – recipients of an Australian University Teaching Award from the Carrick Institute for learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2006.
World-class facilities
- State-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories
- The specialist Giblin Library - housing collections covering the broad fields of economics and commerce with special strengths in the areas of finance, trade, accounting, management, marketing, business and economics.
- Access to online tutors for many subjects. The Online Tutor allows students to direct questions to their tutor or lecturer via the internet, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and receive a response within 24 hours on weekdays. Questions and the tutor's/lecturer's answers can be accessed by all students in the subject, allowing everyone to benefit from the question and answer.
- Audio and video streaming of lectures.
- Workshops, advice, additional tutorials and support programs exclusively for Commerce students, provided by the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), including:
- Mentor Program
- ‘Peer Assisted Study Scheme’ (PASS)
- Skills workshops