This programme provides an interactive learning environment that reflects the changing nature of business nationally and globally. You will gain an understanding of the factors that impact people’s behaviour in organisations, learn processes to manage projects and change in the workplace, and explore developing and managing people. You have the opportunity to apply your learning to the real world in an industry project.

You can choose from four exciting majors offering great career opportunities: accounting, business information systems, project management or business transformation and change. The accounting major allows you to
complete the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand academic requirements for Associate Chartered Accountants membership.

NorthTec delivers this degree programme in collaboration with six other major polytechnics in New Zealand. Sharing resources, knowledge and research capabilities ensures our students benefit from the latest teaching and management practices to ensure their future success.

Study pathways

Students who have completed the NZIM Diploma in Management or or similar at NorthTec or other institutions are welcomed and encouraged to transfer their courses to Bachelor of Applied Management.

Students who have completed courses in the Bachelor of Applied Management programme at Otago Polytechnic, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Manakau Institute of Technology or other tertiary institutions will receive the specified credit for those courses where NorthTec has appropriate approvals in place. Please contact Registry/Business Programme office for an application form.

What will I learn?

This is a focused and practical study programme that will ensure you are "work ready" for employment in industry and business and provide you with a global view of business and commerce.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Applied Management programme will have the following abilities:

• Communication – The capacity to communicate skillfully in interpersonal, group and intercultural situations.

• Ethics – The capacity to think critically through the ethical issues inherent in business situations.

• Problem solving – The capacity to solve problems, accomplish tasks, think independently and contribute immediately to the organisation’s decision making.

• Mindfulness – An awareness of and respect for the diversity of the local and global business environment.

• Learning – To Learn the understanding of how they learn as individuals, how they continue to learn after their formal studies have finished and how they can contribute to organisational learning.

• Applied – Our graduates are work ready. They apply their learning during their courses to projects and real business solutions.

Communication – The capacity to communicate skillfully in interpersonal, group and intercultural situations.

Ethics – The capacity to think critically through the ethical issues inherent in business situations.

Problem solving – The capacity to solve problems, accomplish tasks, think independently and contribute immediately to the organisation’s decision making.

Mindfulness – An awareness of and respect for the diversity of the local and global business environment.

Learning – To Learn the understanding of how they learn as individuals, how they continue to learn after their formal studies have finished and how they can contribute to organisational learning.

Applied – Our graduates are work ready. They apply their learning during their courses to projects and real business solutions.

Majors

Within this programme you can choose from the following majors:

Accounting

Become a Chartered Accountant. Our accounting major is accredited by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) for their Chartered Accountant designation (Whangarei campus only) and by Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA) Australia for their Professional Accountant designation (Whangarei and Auckland campuses). .

Business Information Systems (Auckland International)

Skills covered range from e-commerce and web design through to financial information systems and programming.

Business transformation and change

Gain the specialist skills needed to plan, lead and manage change within diverse businesses and organisations.

Project management

Specialise in project management and develop a career in this highly sought after profession. Build your project planning expertise as well as your management skills to ensure projects are completed successfully on time and within budget. Gain the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) credentials of Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM)® and Project Management Professional (PMP)®. These PMI credentials will distinguish you in the marketplace and help you move ahead.

Double major

Double majors are possible with project management and business transformation and change. This choice will give you strong management skills to deliver projects successfully on time and within budget, but also to successfully implement business change within an organisation.

Unendorsed BAppMgt

The unendorsed programme gives you the opportunity to build your own electives around the ten core courses, thereby enabling you to focus your training on your career aspirations.