The Concurrent Bachelor of Recreation & Sport and Bachelor of Business Studies (BRS/BBS) is a full-time, four to four and a half year programme (or equivalent part-time) which offers you stimulating studies and provides a pathway to a career in many aspects of recreation and sports management and related areas.

Bachelor of Business Studies Majors:

Accounting Major
Graduating with an accounting major will enable you to undertake accountancy related work in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. With appropriate choices of ‘elective’ courses the accounting major will enable graduates to meet the academic (provisional admission) requirements for the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants - in either the Chartered Accountant (CA) or Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) Colleges. Please discuss this with the Programme Co-ordinator. The completion of both degrees with an accounting major will generally take four and a half years.

Information Systems Major
Having strong information systems skills is important in any career. Typical opportunities after graduation include work as an IT Consultant, IT Business Analyst, IT Web Marketing Manager, Systems Analyst or IT Accounting Manager.

Management Major
Typical opportunities after graduation include work as team leaders or functional managers in a wide range of organisations and industries, particularly those associated with the recreation and sport industry. A degree in management, and recreation and sport, will give graduates a strong competitive advantage.

Marketing Major
Typical opportunities after graduation will include work in the recreation and sport area, where skills gained through the BBS marketing major will again give graduates a competitive advantage. Other career opportunities are sports marketers, product managers and sales managers.

Bachelor of Recreation and Sport courses include: 

• AP5.115 Anatomy and Physiology
• BRS5.36 Physical Fitness and Assessment
• BRS5.45 Nutrition, Activity and Health
• BRS5.51 Te Aranga Ake: Recreation and Sport Landscape
• AP5.116 Kinesiology
• BRS5.20 Leadership and Coaching
• BRS5.21 Movement Education
• BRS5.26 Principles of Physical Training

The BRS is a 360 degree credit programme consisting of 11 compulsory courses and 25 optional courses, allowing the student the flexibility to study many areas within Recreation and Sport.

Bachelor of Business Studies courses include:

Typical courses taken in year one OR two (depending on student choice of Sport or Business first) are indicated below:

BBS (Accounting Major)

• COMM5.01 Organisational Communication
• MGMT5.01 Introduction to Management
• ACCY5.01 Introduction to Accounting
• MKTY5.01 Marketing Principles
• ITSP5.01 Information Systems Principles
• ECON5.01 Economic Principles or QUAN5.01 Quantitative Analysis
• LAWS5.01 Law for Business
• ACCY5.02 Accounting Applications
• BBS (Information Systems major)
• ACCY5.01 Introduction to Accounting
• MGMT5.01 Introduction to Management
• COMM5.01 Organisational Communication
• ITSP5.01 Information Systems Principles
• ITDT5.220 Data
• ECON5.01 Economic Principles
• LAWS5.01 Law for Business
• QUAN5.01 Quantitative Analysis
• COMM5.01 Organisational Communication
• MGMT5.01 Introduction to Management
• ACCY5.01 Introduction to Accounting
• MKTY5.01 Marketing Principles
• ITSP5.01 Information Systems Principles
• ECON5.01 Economic Principles
• LAWS5.01 Law for Business
• QUAN5.01 Quantitative Analysis

The Concurrent degree is a 480 credit programme combining areas of Recreation and Sport with Business to allow students to develop within their chosen field.

There are two entry points per year: 

• February
• July

4 - 4 1/2 years

A personal interview may be part of the application process.

Applicants must meet one of the following criteria: 

Standard Entry 

• A minimum of 42 credits at NCEA Level 3 made up of 14 credits in each of two Approved Subjects with a further 14 credits taken from no more than two other domains or Approved Subjects and
• A minimum of 14 credits at NCEA Level 1 in Mathematics or Pangarau and
• A minimum of eight credits at NCEA Level 2 in English or Te Reo Māori, four credits must be in Reading and four credits must be in Writing or
• At least 75 Level 2 NCEA credits in a maximum of four subjects in one year or
• Satisfactory completion of a Bridging/Foundation programme. 

Provisional Entry

• Applicants who do not meet the criteria above, but present evidence of ability to succeed (eg. maturity, life experience, work experience, other study) or
• Those who narrowly fail to meet the entry criteria above 

Entry to subsequent study is conditional on success at the entry level. 

English Language Entry Requirement

Students are required to have attained an acceptable level of English language fluency.  This may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, including successful study in English, approved scores on IELTS

(6.0 Academic) tests, completion of accepted international equivalents, or completion of an EIT Hawke’s Bay assessment.

The Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) has four majors.  Students choose one major alongside the Bachelor of Recreation and Sport (BRS) and are highly recommended to discuss these with an advisor from Business Studies.

Accounting Major

Students intending to become chartered accountants and with a particular interest in recreation and sport may choose to do the concurrent degrees to meet the minimum four year academic requirement for membership to the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.  The completion of both degrees with an accounting major will generally take four and a half years. 

Information Systems Major

Having strong information systems skills is important in any career.  This major will appeal to any students with a strong interest in information systems and recreation and sport leading to employment such as exercise science consultants.

Management Major

Typical opportunities after graduation include work as team leaders or functional managers in a wide range of organisations and industries, particularly those associated with the recreation and sport industry.  A degree in management, and recreation and sport, will give graduates a strong competitive advantage.

Marketing Major

Typical opportunities after graduation will include work in the recreation and sport area, where skills gained through the BBS marketing major will again give graduates a competitive advantage.  Other career opportunities are sports marketers, product managers and sales managers.