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- Get a head start on advancing your career by combining valuable broad business skills with an engineering specialty.
- Complete 2 degrees in 5 years full-time.
- Choose from any engineering major - civil, computer and software systems, electrical, electrical and aerospace, mechatronics, mechanical, medical or chemical process engineering.
- QUT's engineering degree includes honours-level content integrated throughout the course.
- Study a business major in accounting, advertising, behavioural economics, economics, entrepreneurship and innovation, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or public relations.
Highlights
- Get a head start on advancing your career by combining valuable broad business skills with an engineering specialty.
- Complete 2 degrees in 5 years full-time.
- Choose from any engineering major - civil, computer and software systems, electrical, electrical and aerospace, mechatronics, mechanical, medical or chemical process engineering.
- QUT's engineering degree includes honours-level content integrated throughout the course.
- Study a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or public relations.
Why choose this course?
The engineering component of the degree equips graduates with the ability to design and maintain cutting-edge products or infrastructure. You will be exposed to challenging, hands-on experience through laboratories and design projects, enabling you to make an immediate contribution to the industry.
Your additional business degree can help accelerate your career advancement. You will gain valuable skills in management, accounting, international business or marketing, depending on your choice of major, and gain a broad base of commercial knowledge.
Combine valuable broad business skills with specific engineering knowledge with the Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree. You will complete two degrees in five years full-time.
The majors available in the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) include:
- civil
- chemical and sustainable process
- computer and software systems
- electrical
- electrical and aerospace
- mechatronics
- mechanical
- medical
The majors available in the Bachelor of Business include:
- accounting
- advertising
- behavioural economics
- economics
- entrepreneurship and innovation
- finance
- human resource management
- international business
- management
- marketing
- public relations
Our engineering courses, whether a single or double degree, now include honours-level content integrated throughout the course. A bachelor honours degree is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor degree, and along with the advanced knowledge and skills, it will benefit you in your professional career or future research and study. The duration of the degree remains unchanged: a single engineering honours degree is a four-year program, and a double degree is five years.
Your engineering degree features common units in the first year that combine broad foundation principles with a wide range of major choices, giving you flexibility and options before you choose your career specialisation.
Work integrated learning
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is embedded in the curriculum and it is a core component for all engineering students. WIL allows you to graduate with a portfolio of professional skills that provides evidence of your professional competencies.
You are required to undertake 60 days (equivalent to 450 hours) of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your work integrated learning.
Careers and outcomes
This double degree offers you a wide range of career opportunities.
Graduates can work as professional engineers in a variety of discipline areas. Depending on your area of engineering specialisation, you could work with construction companies, environmental specialists, computer manufacturers, communications and digital signal processing products manufacturers, cable and network equipment manufacturers, defence agencies, electricity utilities, mining industry, telecommunications companies, automated systems and robotics, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, or power generation and supply industry.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Business are skilled in many aspects of business including accounting, advertising, behavioural economics, economics, entrepreneurship and innovation, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, and public relations.
Professional recognition
All graduates are eligible for an Engineers Australia (EA) membership. EA is a signatory to the Washington Accord, which permits graduates to work in various countries across the world. This course is recognised internationally in the engineering profession, giving our graduates more career opportunities overseas.
Possible careers
- Account executive
- Accountant
- Advertising and new media professional
- Aerospace avionics engineer
- Banking and finance professional
- Bioengineer
- Biomechanical engineer
- Biomedical engineer
- Civil engineer
- Commercial banking professional
- Copywriter
- Economist
- Electrical and computer engineer
- Electrical engineer
- Electronic commerce developer
- Engineer
- Engineering manager
- Engineering technologist
- Environmental engineer
- Investment analyst
- Investment banker
- Investment manager
- Market research manager
- Marketing officer/manager
- Mechanical engineer
- Media or communications adviser
- Medical engineer
- Public relations manager
- Public relations officer/consultant
- Publicist
- Software engineer
- Transport engineering specialist
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2026 fees
2026: CSP $12,800 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2026 fees
2026: $46,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: CSP $12,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $40,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
Corporate Partners in Excellence (CPIE) Scholarship - commencing students
A scholarship for future undergraduate students in business, seeking a competitive edge to launch their career.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
QUT Excellence Scholarship (Academic)
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding academic achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Women in Engineering Scholarship
A scholarship for future female undergraduate students who want to study engineering.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Women
Faculty of Business and Law Excellence Scholarship
A scholarship for future undergraduate students who want to study business, property economics or law.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Laurie Cowled Indigenous Scholarship for Business Students
A scholarship for future and current Indigenous female students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate studies in business.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Indigenous Australian; Struggling financially; Women
Equity scholarships scheme
A scholarship for low-income students studying in any faculty.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Struggling financially
QUT Elite Sport Scholarship
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding sporting achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Sporting excellence
International Merit Scholarship
A high achievement scholarship for future international undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
QUT Budding Entrepreneur Scholarship
A scholarship for innovative individuals who are engaged in their passion for entrepreneurial action.
- Scholarship eligibility