Undergraduate & honours qualifications

Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Business Informatics

Qualification code: 98450
NQF level: 8
Total credits: 120
SAQA ID: 101047
APS/AS: 60
Purpose statement:
The primary purpose of the qualification is to provide Honours Bachelor of Commerce graduate level knowledge, specific skills and applied competence in a number of fields traditionally associated with Business, Commerce and Management that will prepare them to be lifelong learners, employable workers/managers, entrepreneurs and contributors to society and the business community.A second purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with graduates in a number of learning fields in order to ensure that the leadership base of innovative and knowledge base economic and scholarly activity is widened. A third purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with people who can understand the constructive role they need to play as intellectual economic leaders in their society and who are empowered to play that role.
This qualification will be presented using both online and distance learning modes.

Who can register?

  • Applicants (new applicants & Unisa students who applied for admission to a new qualification) may only register if they have received an offer of placement from Unisa and have accepted the offer online. Unisa reserves the right to not process and / or to cancel your registration if it is found that you were incorrectly admitted to a qualification. 
  • Re-registering students may register for the 2024 academic year once the registration period opens.

Please note: Should you wish to start a new qualification, please apply online for the alternative qualification during the prescribed application period.


How to choose your modules

Each Unisa qualification is structured in such a way that you need to pass a certain number of NQF level credits within a certain amount of time in order to graduate.

  • Co-requisite: Module A is a co-requisite for Module B. You want to register for Module B, but have not yet passed Module A. You must then register for both Modules A and B simultaneously. You may NOT cancel your registration for Module A unless Module B is also cancelled.

  • Pre-requisite: If Module A is a pre-requisite for Module B, you must pass Module A before you may register for Module B.

You may not register for more than the allowed maximum number of credits / modules per academic year and / or semester: 60 credits per semester or 120 credits per academic year.

The maximum number of credits do not include supplementary and / or aegrotat examinations from a previous semester. Modules taken for non-degree / non-diploma purposes also count towards the maximum number of credits allowed.

You must take your available time into consideration when choosing your modules, as this will impact your academic performance. You need approximately

  • 6 to 8 hours per week for semester modules.
  • 4 to 6 hours per week for year modules.

Click here for more information on managing your studies.

Curriculum for this qualification

While you are deciding on the modules for which you will be registering, write down the module names and codes so that you have something to refer to when completing your registration.

Please click on the modules below to see further information (eg semester/year module, NQF level)

Module (Please click on the module to see further information) Pre-requisite/Co-requisite/Recommendation
Group A. Compulsory
HPCOS81 - Research Methods and Proposal
HRCOS82 - Honours Research Report Pre-requisite:HPCOS81
Group B. Choose 2 from the following
INF4817 - Software Engineering
INF4820 - Human-Computer Interaction
INF4825 - Software Project Management
INF4831 - Information Security
INF4883 - Enterprise Architecture
Group C. Choose 2 from the following
AUI4861 - Advanced Internal Audit Practice
AUI4862 - Advanced Internal Audit Responsibilities in Risk, Control and Governance
FIN4801 - Advanced Financial Management Recommendation:Any NQF level 7 Corporate Finance module or FIN3701 if the student is from UNISA.
FIN4802 - International Financial Management
INV4801 - Investments: Portfolio Management
IOP4862 - Managerial and Organisational Psychology
MNG4801 - Strategic Management
RSK4801 - Operational Risk Management