Bachelor of Commerce

A Bachelor of Commerce, often abbreviated as BCom, B.Com., BComm, or B.Comm. is an undergraduate degree in commerce. The degree is also known as the Bachelor of Commerce and Administration, or BCA. It is predominantly offered in Commonwealth nations; however, the degree is no longer offered in the United Kingdom

History

The Bachelor of Commerce degree was first offered at the University of Birmingham. The University's School of Commerce was founded by William Ashley, an Englishman from Oxford University, who was the first Professor of Political Economy and Constitutional History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Toronto. Ashley left Toronto in 1892, spent a few years at Harvard University and then went back to England to the new University of Birmingham where he founded the School of Commerce and began the program - the forerunner of many BCom degree programs throughout the British Empire. Eighteenth-century economists had divided the English economy into three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce. Commerce included the transportation, marketing, and financing of goods. The Birmingham program included economic geography, economic history, general economics, modern languages, and accountancy.

Objective :  

The basic objective of the B.Sc. (HS) program is to provide to the country a steady stream of competent young men and women with the necessary knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to occupy positions of management and administration in the Hospitality Industry.

The course structure of the given B.Sc. (HS) program is designed keeping in view the basic objective stated above. Consequently certain essential features of such model program structures would be

• To impart to the students latest and relevant knowledge from the field of management theory and practice.
  
• Providing opportunities to the participants, within and outside the institutions, for developing necessary operating skills and
  
• Imparting / developing the right kind of attitudes to attitudes to functions effectively in operational, managerial / administrative positions.