Our Bachelor of Commerce is delivered through four tiers that progressively develop your knowledge, critical thinking ability and operational skills. Once you have built up your skill set, you will be ready for the Capstone courses that bring together everything you’ve learned into real-world projects, helping you to launch your career.

The Bachelor of Commerce program prepares you for a successful career where you will contribute constructively in a global economy. The program focus is found in a sequence of business courses. At the same time, it integrates communications courses to create an interdisciplinary degree that provides a sound background for work that includes the development and management of organizations. Team activities are an intrinsic part of many courses and build team skills vital for real-world success, as well as providing a collegial learning environment.

Elective Area – Accounting

Accounting skills are consistently in demand. The Accounting elective area, in combination with the rest of the BCom degree, will prepare you for entry into a professional accounting program.

In September 2021, UCW received 5 stars rating from the QS Stars higher education rating system, the world’s most popular source of comparative data on university performance.

As part of the QS Stars audit process, institutions receive an overall rating of between zero and 5+ stars, as well as a rating in at least eight of 13 key areas. We have achieved 5 stars in Teaching, Employability, Online Learning, Academic Development, Social Responsibilities and Inclusiveness and 4 stars for Internationalisation. UCW is the third university in Canada, and the first in British Columbia, to receive a 5 Star rating from QS Stars. There are only a total of seven institutions in the United States and Canada to receive a 5 Star rating.

Program Structure

Tier 1 University Foundation

• Principles of Accounting
• Introduction to Business
• Mass Media & Society
• Science elective
• Principles of Microeconomics
• Principles of Macroeconomics
• Moral Philosophy
• Academic Writing
• Contemporary Literature
• Foundation Mathematics

Tier 2 Disciplinary Foundation

• Business Environment
• Information Systems for Managers
• Communications Theory
• Writing for Specific Audiences
• Organizational Behaviour
• Statistics
• Marketing Management

Tier 3 Disciplinary Applications

• Managerial Accounting
• Business Law
• Professional Communications
• Finance
• Research Methodology
• Human Resource Management
• Operations Management

Tier 4 Integrative Applications

• Strategy and Decision Making
• Business Capstone 1
• Business Capstone 2