Green business and dual degrees on study menu

Sustainable business management and new dual degrees are some of the new study options at The University of Queensland this year.

UQ Gatton is offering a Bachelor of Business (Sustainable Enterprise Management) program which gives a professional business degree and skills to manage businesses that are profitable as well as environmentally and socially sustainable.

Graduates can expect to work in marketing and mining, strategic consultancy, international development and aid, new product development, natural resource management and conservation, banking, finance and insurance, and in government.

"The big advantage of the degree is that you can still get the jobs you can get with a traditional business degree but this opens up new career opportunities in international development, environmental management and emerging business ventures," course coordinator Paul Dargusch said.

UQ has 72 dual degrees this year with many combinations including science/arts, environmental management/law to arts/medicine.

A Graduate Certificate and Master of Engineering in power generation will also be offered for the first time in 2007, to develop and provide engineers and other professionals working in the power sector with expert skills to reduce the engineering skills shortage.

For more information, visit www.uq.edu.au/study.