Bachelor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Bachelor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is a three-year undergraduate degree for students who want to build businesses, launch products inside larger organisations, or turn an idea into something that actually trades. It sits in the business administration subject area, so you get the core commercial toolkit, accounting, marketing, operations, finance, business law, and then spend the back half of the degree working on ventures rather than just reading about them.

How the degree is structured

Australian bachelor degrees are made up of units of study, each worth a set number of credit points, and you need a fixed total to graduate. Study runs across semesters or trimesters, with a census date each teaching period that sets your fee and enrolment obligations. This course is three years full time. Expect a mix of core business units, entrepreneurship and innovation units, and electives you can use to specialise, in marketing, finance, technology commercialisation, or a second field entirely. Most students finish with a capstone unit in their final year, working a real venture or a client brief through from problem to pitch.

Work-integrated learning is built into how business degrees are taught in Australia. That usually means an internship, an industry project, or a placement with a startup, accelerator, small firm or corporate innovation team. You might be validating a market, building a financial model, running customer interviews, or helping a founder get a product to launch. Some students use the placement to test their own business with a mentor watching. It is assessed, it counts towards your degree, and it is often where the first job offer comes from.

What you actually learn

You learn how to spot an opportunity and check whether it is real. That means customer research, market sizing, competitor analysis, unit economics and cash flow forecasting. You learn how to pitch, to investors, to a board, to a customer, and how to take feedback without folding. You also learn the unglamorous parts: pricing, contracts, hiring, compliance, and how to keep a small operation solvent through a slow quarter. Teamwork matters here because most ventures are built by more than one person, and group assessment reflects that.

This degree suits school leavers who already run something small, career changers who want to commercialise an idea, and people who intend to join a family business or work in innovation roles inside established companies. International students should note that the Student visa generally allows work of up to 48 hours per fortnight while your course is in session, and graduates may be eligible for the Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) post-study work stream. English requirements are set out on the official page, IELTS Academic 6.0–6.5 overall is the usual undergraduate standard, with TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic, Cambridge C1 Advanced and the university's own English programmes accepted as equivalents. Tuition is published on the CRICOS register under course code 112715M. Confirm entry requirements, unit lists, intake dates and fees on the official page before you apply.

• Founder or co-founder, building your own venture in retail, services, software, food, or trades, often while still studying.
• Innovation or strategy analyst, inside banks, insurers, telcos, retailers and government agencies that run internal innovation programmes.
• Product or commercial manager, taking a product from concept to market in a startup or scale-up.
• Business development manager, opening new markets, partnerships and revenue lines for small and mid-sized Australian firms.
• Venture capital or accelerator analyst, screening deals, supporting portfolio companies, and running due diligence.
• Family business manager, stepping into operations, growth or succession roles in an established Australian company.
• Consultant, working with SMEs on growth, digital adoption and process improvement.

Hiring industries include professional services, financial services, technology, retail and e-commerce, agribusiness, health and education services, and the public sector. Many graduates also create their own roles rather than applying for one.