Studying Commerce
Go Global has a limited number of spaces for students wishing to study commerce at UBC. Students from universities with commerce exchange agreements can check with their universities for information on available exchange spaces at UBC.
Undergraduate program structure
Year one: Consists of calculus, micro- and macroeconomics, English, and electives.
Year two: Consists of a pre-set group of second-year commerce and elective courses.
Year three: Consists of a pre-set group of third-year commerce courses, option (or major) courses, and electives.
Year four: Students further their commerce and option studies and complete additional electives.
Areas of concentration
- Accounting
- Commerce and Economics
- Finance
- General Business Management
- Human Resources Management
- International Business
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing
- Real Estate
- Transportation and Logistics
General information
Exchange students are expected to have completed most of the equivalents to the courses listed below.
| Subject | UBC course number |
|---|---|
| Differential Calculus | Math 104 |
| Microeconomics (Introductory) | Econ 101 |
| Macroeconomics (Introductory) | Econ 102 |
| Introductory Quantitative Decision Making | Comm 290 |
| Introductory Business Statistics | Comm 291 |
| Introductory Financial Accounting | Comm 293 |
| Introductory Managerial Accounting | Comm 294 |
| Managerial Economics(Intermediate Economics) | Comm 295 |
| Introduction to Finance | Comm 298 |
| It is recommended that students have also completed the following topics: | |
| Management & Organizational Behaviour | Comm 292 |
| Introduction to Management Information Systems | Comm 391 |
| Introduction to Marketing | Comm 296 |
Course enrolment information
- Students accepted to commerce from partner universities that have a commerce exchange agreement will be allowed a maximum of four commerce courses per term (additional commerce courses may be considered if space is available).
- Students accepted to commerce from other partner universities will be allowed a maximum of two commerce courses per term (additional commerce courses may be considered if space is available).
- Students not on exchange in commerce may request to take commerce courses (requests will be considered if space is available).
- Enrolment in second-year courses (200-level) may be limited.
- Exchange students may study third- and fourth-year courses (300- and 400-level).
- Many courses have additional prerequisites that must be met prior to course enrolment. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that these prerequisites are met.
- Graduate commerce courses (500-level) are closed to exchange students.
- The following are commerce courses for non-commerce majors: COMM 329/398/457/458/465/473 and 493. These do not count towards the maximum course limits listed above.
- It is the student's responsibility to ensure that he/she meets required prerequisites.
- Many commerce courses are in high demand; students may be refused enrolment due to capacity limitations.
- At UBC Economics is within the Faculty of Arts and is separate from the Sauder School of Business and Bachelor of Commerce program. Due to limited capacity, access to Economics courses cannot be guaranteed.
Universities with commerce exchange agreements
- BEM Bordeaux Management School
- Chinese University Hong Kong
- Copenhagen Business School
- Chulalongkorn University
- Erasmus University
- ESSEC Business School
- ESADE
- Fudan University
- Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EESP)
- Hebrew University
- HEC Montréal
- HEC Paris (Hautes Études Commerciales)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- IE University
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Keio University
- Korea University
- Lancaster University
- LUISS (Liberà Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali)
- National University of Singapore
- Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- Peking University
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Osaka University
- Sciences Po Paris
- Seoul National University
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Singapore Management University
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Tec de Monterrey
- Tsinghua University
- University College Dublin
- University of Cologne (Koln)
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- University of Economics, Prague
- Université Jean-Moulin Lyon III
- University of Hong Kong
- University of Manchester
- University of Melbourne
- University of Otago
- University of Navarra
- University of New South Wales
- University of Stockholm
- University of Queensland
- Universität St. Gallen
- University of Warwick
- WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
- Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
- Yonsei University
