1. Faculty of Business

2. USC’s Faculty of Business Commenced in 1996 with: –289 Undergraduate students –8 Staff 10 years later in 2006: –1212 Undergraduate students –233 Postgraduate students –60 Full-time Staff; over 40 Sessional Staff

3. Studying Business at USC Positives: 1.Human scale –not just a number –Graduates give USC top marks for educational experience (ranked 6/34 in satisfaction rating in 2005 Course Experience Questionnaire - most recent)

4. Studying Business at USC Positives: 2. High quality education At least as good as the high-status unis Fail if don’t attain standards 3. High quality staff –Proportion of academic staff with PhD/Masters Highest in Qld 5 th highest in Australia

5. Studying Business at USC Positives: 4. International benchmarking FOB in process of gaining AACSB accreditation Only 5 in Australia: UQ, UNSW, Sydney, QUT, UTS 5. International Experience University Go Program 6. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

6. Serious Business Best employment of accounting graduates of any University in Australia: 2003 (96% in FT employment) and 2004 (100% FT employment) (DEST). 2005 (91.3% FT 8.7% PT employment) (DEST). In FT or PT work USC all business 90.5% Aus all business 89%

7. At USC, it’s Serious Business Existing Undergraduate Programs –Bachelor of Business Accounting Financial Planning Human Resource Management Information Systems International Business Management Marketing Property & Asset Management Tourism –Bachelor of Information & Communications Technology –Bachelor of Software Engineering Entry prerequisite : Maths C –Bachelor of Sustainable Tourism Common first-year – so can change major at start of 2nd year Combined degrees