The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) will provide you with a broad foundation knowledge of contemporary business and its practices. This ACBSP and NCMA-accredited degree prepares you for a successful career in business or management, where you will contribute constructively to a global economy.

Graduates of the BCom program will:

• have a comprehensive understanding of contemporary business practices across all areas of business management.
• know how to conduct business in a multicultural environment, spanning international borders and working cross-culturally.
• have the ability to use interdisciplinary approaches to solve problems and create new business opportunities.
• be able to use critical thinking to analyze and interpret information to make informed decisions.

UCW follows professional trends in industry closely and develops elective areas that reflect the best professional standards in specific fields. Currently, we offer the following elective areas in the BCom degree:

• Accounting: Accounting skills are consistently in demand. The accounting elective area, in combination with the rest of the BCom degree, will prepare you for entry into a professional accounting program.
• Business Communications: Communication is an essential component of every organization, whether communicating internally to staff and managers, or externally to customers, stakeholders, or the public. The Business Communications elective area will prepare you to produce effective communications materials for a wide range of contexts and in the framework of business strategy.

In September 2021, UCW received 5 stars rating from the QS Stars higher education rating system, the world’s most popular source of comparative data on university performance. 

As part of the QS Stars audit process, institutions receive an overall rating of between zero and 5+ stars, as well as a rating in at least eight of 13 key areas. We have achieved 5 stars in Teaching, Employability, Online Learning, Academic Development, Social Responsibilities and Inclusiveness and 4 stars for Internationalisation. UCW is the third university in Canada, and the first in British Columbia, to receive a 5 Star rating from QS Stars. There are only a total of seven institutions in the United States and Canada to receive a 5 Star rating.