NUS - Double Degree Programme in Business and Business Analytics

##: NUS will adopt three new academic terminologies from 1 August 2023 - “Module” will be renamed “Course”, “Modular Credit (MC)” will be renamed “Unit”, and “Cumulative Average Point (CAP)” will be renamed “Grade Point Average (GPA)”. The definition of a Module/Course and MC/Unit will remain the same, and there will be no change to the computation of the CAP/GPA.

Degree Requirements
Degree Requirements	2020 Cohort	Remarks
(A) University Level Requirements	20 MCs	Only 1 set is required, which will be double‐counted.
GEMs	20 MCs	20 MCs
(B) Business Programme Requirements	50 MCs
Core Modules	30 MCs (+20 MCs common modules)	Refer to Table A
Business Electives / Specialisation Modules	20 MCs	Refer to Note 1
(C) BZA(H) Requirements	88 MCs
Core Modules	52 MCs (+20 MCs from Common Core Modules)	Refer to Table B
Programme Electives	24 MCs	Refer to Note 2
BT4101 BSc (Business Analytics) Dissertation or IS4010 Industry Internship Programme	12 MCs	Refer to Note 3
(D) Common Modules	20 MCs
BSP1703 Managerial Economics	4 MCs	Replace EC1301
MKT1705 Principles of Marketing	4 MCs
BT1101 Intro to Business Analytics	4 MCs	Replace DAO1704
CS1010S Programming Methodology	4 MCs	Replace DAO2702
ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders (BBA) or IS2101 Business and Technical Communication	4 MCs	To follow Home Faculty's requirement
(E) Unrestricted Elective Requirements	2 MCs
Unrestricted Elective Modules	2 MCs
TOTAL (minimum)	180 MCs

Curriculum and MCs may change without prior notice.

^ It is not compulsory for DDP students to do a specialisation for the BBA degree, but they are still required to complete 20 MCs of electives based on the above arrangement. Students who wish to specialise in a business area may have to read extra modules to meet the respective specialisation requirements. Business (home faculty) students who withdraw from the DDP and return to the BBA/BBA(H) single degree programme are still required to specialise.

Other Graduation Requirements

BIZ preparatory modules (zero-MC)

Academic orientation modules (online)*:
1. BPM1701 Calculus & Statistics
2. BPM1702 Microsoft Excel Skills for Business
Intensive 1st-year primer module**:
1. BPM1705 Understanding How Business Works
Career Preparation Modules:
1. Career Creation Starter Modules:
  1. STR1000 Career Creation Starter Workshops **
  2. STR2000 Career Creation Starter Clinics **
2. Global Immersion and Study

* These must be completed in the first semester, except for students in this DDP. They are exempted from this requirement. However, BIZ students who withdraw from this DDP are still required to fulfil this requirement unless they have completed MA1521 Calculus for Computing or MA1102R Calculus (in place of BPM1701) and BT1101 Introduction to Business Analytics (in place of BPM1702).

** This must be completed in the first semester. Late‐entry DDP students must complete this in the first available semester of commencing DDP.

Table A: BBA Core Modules

ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers	4 MCs
BSP1702 Legal Environment of Business	4 MCs
BSP1703 Managerial Economics	4 MCs
BSP2701 Global Economy	2 MCs
BSP3701 Strategic Management	4 MCs
DAO1704 Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets	replaced by BT1101
DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics	replaced by CS1010S
DAO2703 Operations and Technology Management	4 MCs
ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders (BBA) (common module, If home faculty is BIZ, read ES2002; if home faculty is SOC, read IS2101)	4 MCs
FIN2704 Finance	4 MCs
MKT1705 Principles of Marketing	4 MCs
MNO1706 Organisational Behaviour	4 MCs
MNO2705 Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty	4 MCs

Table B: List of Common Modules for BZA

BT1101 Introduction to Business Analytics #	4 MC
CS1010S Programming Methodology #	4 MC
EC1301 Principles of Economics	replaced by BSP1703
IS1103/X Ethics in Computing	4 MC
MA1311 Matrix Algebra and Applications, or MA1101R Linear Algebra I	4 MC
MA1521 Calculus for Computing, or MA1102R Calculus	4 MC
MKT1705X Principles of Marketing	replaced by MKT1705
BT2101 Decision‐Making Methods and Tools	4 MC
BT2102 Data Management and Visualisation	4 MC
CS2030 Programming Methodology I	4 MC
CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms	4 MC
IS2101 Business and Technical Communication # ^	4 MC
ST2334 Probability and Statistics	4 MC
BT3102 Computational Methods for Business Analytics	4 MC
BT3103 Application Systems Development for Business Analytics	4 MC
IS3103 Information Systems Leadership and Communication @	4 MC
BT4103 Business Analytics Capstone Project	8

# Common core module

^ If home faculty is BIZ, read ES2002; if home faculty is SOC, read IS2101.

@ UWC2101, ES1601 or ES2002 can substitute IS2101 as the pre‐requisite to IS3103 for students under the USP/ RVRC programmes or home faculty is BIZ.

Notes

It is not compulsory for DDP students to specialise in a business area for the BBA degree, but they are still required to complete 24 MCs of electives based on the above arrangement. Students in this DDP are not allowed to specialise in Business Analytics. Business students who withdraw from DDP are still required to pursue a specialisation.
Some programme electives of the two degrees are the same. If students in this DDP wish to double‐count them to meet both programmes' requirements, they need to read corresponding number of Unrestricted Electives to meet the shortfall in total MCs (which must be at least 200). Excluding the university‐level requirements, the total double‐counting in this DDP combination must not exceed 30 MCs.
Students aiming for Honours (Highest Distinction) in the Business Analytics degree would need to complete BT4101 BSc (Business Analytics) Dissertation. If a student wishes to double‐count BT4101 BSc (Business Analytics) Dissertation and BHD4001 Business Honours Dissertation, this would exceed the 30MCs limit referred to in Note 2 and hence the student may have to read unrestricted electives in so far as the limit is exceeded.
DDP students who are also in the USP/NUSC and RVRC programme may count the respective writing and communication module, UWC2101/NTW% and Critical Thinking and ES1601 Professional and Academic Communication, as the equivalent to ES2002 or IS2101.

Students who withdraw from the DDP without having read Thinking with Writing (NTW) or IS2101/ES2002, must read your own Home Faculty communication course (IS2101 for SoC; ES2002 for BIZ).