Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Laws

5 Years On Campus Bachelors Program

Western Sydney University Penrith

Program Overview

If you're ready to combine a sharp business mindset with a solid legal foundation, the Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Laws at our university is tailored for you. This five-year dual degree brings together business and law in a way that helps you build real-world skills, preparing you to thrive as a corporate adviser, policy maker, legal consultant or business leader.

Curriculum Structure
Year 1: You’ll start by laying the groundwork with units like Business Foundations, Introduction to Law, and Economics for Business. These early courses introduce you to how organisations operate, how laws shape society, and how business decisions and legal frameworks link together. You'll discover what drives both business value and legal accountability.
Year 2: As you progress, you’ll dive into units such as Contract Law, Corporate Financial Accounting, and Business Analytics. Here you'll experience the dynamics of financial statements, learn how contracts underpin commercial relationships and begin to use data to make smart business and legal decisions.
Year 3: This year, your focus moves deeper with courses like Property Law, Management and Marketing Strategy, and Applied Corporate Finance. You’ll build on your earlier foundations to tackle complex business scenarios, explore how law interacts with property and assets, and sharpen your strategic thinking across both business and legal contexts.
Year 4: You’ll engage with more advanced law units like Criminal Justice & Regulatory Compliance, alongside business major units such as Human Resource Management or International Business. At this stage, you’re putting your knowledge into practice: thinking about how rules, ethics and business strategy come together.
Year 5: In your final year, you might take Legal Internship / Clinic, Corporate Governance & Ethics, and a cap-stone major unit from business such as Marketing Strategy or Investment and Securities. This is where you bring everything together, apply your learning in real-world settings, and prepare for your transition into employment or further study.

Focus Areas
Business strategy • Legal practice • Finance • Marketing • Human resource management • Property • Economics

Learning Outcomes
You will graduate with the ability to analyse business and legal challenges, apply strategic thinking, communicate with confidence, act ethically, and lead in dynamic professional environments.

Professional Alignment (Accreditation)
The law component meets the undergraduate academic requirements for admission to legal practice via the Legal Profession Admission Board, ensuring it has real professional value. On the business side, depending on your major (for example Accounting or Finance) you’ll also be eligible for recognition from bodies such as CPA Australia or the Australian Property Institute—so you’ll leave with credentials employers recognise.
Reputation (Employability Rankings)
Our university is ranked in the top 2% of universities globally and is recognised among the top 400 worldwide in QS rankings. For business and economics subjects, it sits in the 301-400 range according to the Times Higher Education rankings, and its strong industry links mean you’ll be connected to good career pathways.

Experiential Learning (Research, Projects, Internships etc.)

Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University — it’s a program built not just to teach theory but to immerse you in real-world professional experiences from day one. You’ll learn core business concepts alongside foundational legal training, and you’ll practice the kind of skills that employers in both law firms and business enterprises are looking for: drafting, advocacy, negotiation, interpretation, critical thinking. Because you’re doing both degrees, you’ll have the flexibility to carve out a career that spans law, business, policy or management — and you’ll do so equipped with genuine hands-on experience and professional awareness.

Here’s a look at how you’ll learn through real opportunities:

Placement or community-based practical experience (sometimes unpaid) in professional settings, enabling you to engage with workplace culture and discipline expectations.
Work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities where you apply your business or legal learning in authentic professional contexts.
Clinical placements in law, such as through access-to-justice clinics or legal internships, where you’ll work on real cases, practice drafting, advocacy and client advising.
Subjects explicitly designed to develop legal advocacy, negotiation, legal drafting and legal-technology skills — preparing you for the legal environment and the commercial one.
Ability to tailor your business major (for example, Accounting, Applied Finance, Property, Marketing, Economics, HR Management) so you apply business learning in industry-relevant, applied contexts.
International exchange or study abroad options that broaden your global perspective and expose you to business and legal practices beyond Australia.

Progression & Future Opportunities

It’s great that you’re considering the Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University (WSU). This degree sets you up for a wide range of rewarding careers: you’ll be equipped not just for roles within the legal profession, but also for business-leadership positions that benefit from a strong understanding of both law and commerce.

As a graduate, you might become a corporate legal adviser, a marketing manager with deep awareness of regulatory risk, a judge’s associate, a policy or governance officer, or even a business owner with legal know-how behind your entrepreneurial plans. The program is deliberately designed to give you that dual advantage of business and law.

Here’s what this means for you:

WSU supports employability through its Careers & Employability team: you’ll get access to career-planning assistance, personalised advice, industry-relevant internships and job listings via CareerHub. This means as you study you’ll have concrete support to turn your degree into a career.
The program offers approved accreditation pathways. For example, the LLB component meets the undergraduate academic requirements for legal practice admission via the relevant board in NSW. That means you’re not just getting theory — you’re genuinely qualified for legal practice if you choose that route.
From the business side, you can choose majors like Accounting, Applied Finance, Economics, Marketing, Property or Human Resource Management — each of which is accredited or recognised by professional bodies. That puts you in a strong position to enter accounting, finance or other business-specialist roles.
The combined degree gives you flexibility and strength: you can operate in the business world with legal insight, or in the legal world with business sense. This combination opens up long-term value: roles in corporate governance, compliance, mergers & acquisitions, and policy – not just immediately after graduation but well into your career.

Further Academic Progression:
After completing this combined business + law degree, you could continue your studies in several ways if you choose. For example, you might pursue a Master of Laws (LLM) to specialise in an area like corporate law, international law or human rights. Or you might opt for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or a specialised business master in finance, marketing or entrepreneurship, leveraging your business foundation. If research interests you, there are also honours or postgraduate research pathways leading into a PhD in law, business or related interdisciplinary fields. The important thing is that the degree keeps your options open — you’re not boxed into just one path, but you’ve built a strong platform for whatever direction you decide to take.