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Part IV · No. 04

A first-cycle degree opens the second cycle. It does not decide ordination.

Business & Administration·Level 6 · First Cycle·Church Degree · suffix C

B.B.A.C.

Bachelor of Business Administration — Church Degree

Preparation for the management of organisations, including Church, nonprofit, and social-sector institutions.

CHEQF Level6
Qualification typeFirst cycle, professional-academic
Admission requirementsAccess to higher education.
Normative volume180–240 EAC.

Content · Outcomes

Content is what is taught. Outcomes are what is verified.

What the programme must contain

  1. management
  2. accounting and finance fundamentals
  3. organizational behavior
  4. marketing/communications
  5. operations and project management
  6. business ethics and governance
  7. nonprofit/church administration

What the graduate must demonstrate

  1. understands core management functions and the financial logic of an organisation
  2. analyses organisational problems and proposes justified solutions
  3. prepares basic budgets, project plans, and management documents
  4. works effectively with teams and stakeholders
  5. takes account of ethical, fiduciary, and ecclesiastical constraints on management.

Final · Progression

Final capstone work and dissertations may not be transferred from elsewhere.

How the programme closes

Business capstone / organizational project / applied thesis.

Where it leads

Access to MBA.C., M.A.C., and other Level 7 programmes.

Status

Black is what the degree certifies. This is what it does not.

No CHEQF academic degree, by itself, confers a right to ordination, ministry in a particular jurisdiction, or appointment to ecclesiastical office. Such decisions are made by the competent Church authority.

“This is an ecclesiastical academic qualification awarded within the Church system of higher education. It is not represented as a state-awarded or state-accredited academic degree unless such recognition has been separately granted by the competent authority of the relevant jurisdiction.”

Recommended status statement on every diploma, Article 17

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