If you're keen to build an exciting career in the growing health sector, La Trobe's Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Health Sciences gives you strong foundations in biosciences and public health, as well as a well-rounded business skillset.

You'll establish a grounding in research as you prepare to solve major health challenges. And while you explore the complexities of health, you'll also delve into the key business challenges faced by modern societies around the world.

Learn how to analyse complex problems. Understand how to identify innovative solutions. Grow as a leader and thinker. And gain key communication skills as you collaborate with stakeholders – and turn your ideas into action. With a carefully selected range of majors to choose from, you can tailor this program to your interests and career aspirations in both commerce and health.

Expand your networks and your horizons. Develop the creative and analytical skills to work across a wide range of industries and build the resilience to face real-world challenges. You'll get out of the classroom and build both your skills and your professional network. You can also choose also to do an internship that's tailored to your career goals.

With wide ranging expertise – from economics to public health systems – and valuable industry experience, you'll graduate with the skills employers are searching for in the rapidly changing world of healthcare.

You'll learn:

• Management
  • Build fundamental business knowledge and explore concepts and issues relating to the management of firms and global business environments.
• Health sciences
  • Gain practical skills and knowledge in relation to the physiological and anatomical principles of the human body. Explore the social and environmental aspects of health and science.
• Economics
  • Explore economic concepts and discover how they're used to solve problems faced by a wide range of industries, including governments and multinational organisations.
• Public health
  • Learn the skills you'll need for public health research and develop expertise in health policy, law and ethics.
• Marketing
  • Help businesses get a competitive edge. Gain the skills to research, analyse, develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 7 - Bachelor Degree.

Sample course structure

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.