Compare the UTS BAcc to other co-op business courses or accounting cadetships, and see for yourself that we have at least 10 big advantages.

1. You can start your graduate career sooner, and earn a full graduate salary earlier. In just three years you will have completed your degree, including one year of work experience.

2. You can have a social life AND graduate in 3 years! With 6 weeks of special class activities and excursions to start the course, each class of Bachelor of Accounting students is formed into a tightly-knit group, with friendships starting from the first day and lasting well beyond the duration of the course.

Yes, other courses and cadetships have a social aspect also, but none can offer the vibrancy and fun that comes from such an intense group bonding. Plus in BAcc, you’ll have the time to enjoy those friendships and a real uni life (instead of working late every night or coming in only for night classes).

The friendships are consistently rated by students as the best part of BAcc – even with all the other benefits acknowledged.

3. The BAcc network. BAcc students are not lost in the big crowd at university because they study together in specially timetabled classes of their own.

Don’t underestimate how big an advantage this is. You’ll not only have a large group of friends that you see all the time at uni, you can also rely on them for help and support with study, exams and the tough times. Other uni students have to work much harder to create any sort of network – uni is not like school.

BAcc students are also part of a broader business network of hundreds of BAcc graduates and BAcc sponsor managers, all of whom have experienced the quality of the program first-hand.

Then there are the staff of the UTS BAcc program, who do nothing else but look after BAcc. That means they are dedicated to helping BAcc students and sponsors, not distracted by other responsibilities or jobs.

4. We offer true breadth of work experience. BAcc students will do work training for 2 different sponsor organisations, from among a sponsor list that ranges across many different industries. We encourage students to experience different work training placements before deciding on their career direction.

Work training consists of a progression of structured tasks or roles within different departments of each of the 2 organisations. Rather than merely checking the books, the chances are that you’ll be doing a full-time job for a commercial organisation in support of their business. That’s real exposure to real business.

And if you think a 6-month work training placement is not long enough for an employer to train you up to do real work, consider this. BAcc sponsor employers use each 6 month placement to promote themselves to students as a future potential employer, through offering challenging work in engaging environments. Perhaps if BAcc students were contractually obliged to take a graduate job with them then the work might be more mundane (and the hours longer).

5. Students are not bound to any sponsor organisation during their studies or upon graduation.

6. Senior sponsor managers maintain continual and close contact with Bachelor of Accounting students through regular functions, site visits and guest lectures. They take a special interest in this program and its students, as a full partner in your co-operative education. They are an important part of the unique network of contacts that you will develop as a BAcc student.

7. Special features of this course make the transition from High School to university much easier. There are also many ways in which we look to make the move to Sydney much easier, if you are thinking of moving to Sydney to study.

8. If you want a university degree that carries prestige, look no further than our list of sponsors. 34 of Australia’s leading employers, all paying to be associated with UTS BAcc in order to access our interns and graduates who are recognised as the best. Compare our list to the sponsor list of other co-op courses, or to the narrow prestige of a single-employer cadetship. Which employer names would you like your CV to feature?

9. UTS City Campus is the easiest university to get to from all parts of Sydney, being located on a major train, bus and ferry hub. And we also happen to be on the edge of the Sydney CBD, where most business employers have their Head Offices. That makes our location doubly convenient if you are going to do a degree that juggles full-time work and study.

10. Want to travel overseas? You can complete one semester of your BAcc degree at an overseas university of your choice, on international exchange. Going on exchange is a chance to internationalise your degree, develop your intercultural skills, live in another country and enjoy all the different experiences that this may bring. That’s why UTS encourages it with additional scholarships available to assist with travel and accommodation costs. UTS is by far the largest university provider of international student exchange in NSW, with hundreds of in-bound and out-bound students connecting with other universities across the globe.

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