Master of Business Administration (Digital MBA)

The Digital MBA is delivered in a unique design that offers a transdisciplinary approach to decision making in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.

The program has been designed with the business challenge at its centre, with nine thematic units and three practical high-impact projects helping you to customise your learning and development outcomes and apply them directly to your workplace.

Each unit in the program belongs to one of three discipline streams:

strategy and innovation decision making leadership and engagement.

Your journey will start with an online induction that will provide orientation to the program, its systems and key processes, and you will also be introduced to your cohort.

Each 10-week long unit will begin with an optional two-day weekend intensive workshop hosted at our Brisbane-based Executive Education Centre.

If you are unable to attend the workshop you'll be able to participate virtually in various events designed to:

introduce the teaching team to your cohort introduce the phenomenon under investigation begin exploring the basic discipline concepts relevant to the unit.

In addition to your Digital MBA academic team, your business coach will provide academic advice in online forums and facilitated discussion, and your engagement coach will help you stay engaged with the program and your cohort over the life of your degree.

Domestic Students

The course consists of:

• nine thematic units (12 credit points each)
• three High Impact Project (HiP) self-directed, work-integrated units (totalling 36 credit points).

Each unit is designed around the standard of 150 hours of learning distributed across ten weeks of primarily online and self-directed and workplace learning. There is also an optional two-day face-to-face intensive workshop before each unit starts.

You will undertake all twelve units sequentially.

• View unit outlines (PDF file, 652.6 KB)

Standard Course Progression:

Year 1

• Competing in Complex Environment
• Optimising Business Outcomes
• The Digital Leader
• High Impact Project 1

Year 2

• Establishing New Ventures
• Building Financial Resilience
• Leading Teams for Growth
• High Impact Project 2

Year 3

• Pivoting to a Digital Business Model
• Transforming the Proactive Organisation
• Leading Business Transformation
• High Impact Project 3

International Students

Standard Course Progression:

Year 1

• Competing in Complex Environment
• Optimising Business Outcomes
• The Digital Leader
• High Impact Project 1

Year 2

• Establishing New Ventures
• Building Financial Resilience
• Leading Teams for Growth
• High Impact Project 2

Year 3

• Pivoting to a Digital Business Model
• Transforming the Proactive Organisation
• Leading Business Transformation
• High Impact Project 3

Academic entry requirements

You must have:

• a completed recognised bachelor degree in any discipline with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 (on QUT's 7-point scale)
• a minimum 3 years of full-time post-degree work experience, with a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional work experience and a minimum 1 year of  supervisory/management experience.

You must submit responses to following mandatory reflective questions:

1. Motivation to complete the QUT MBA
2. Intended contribution to the cohort
3. Work/life/study balance strategy
4. Current leadership philosophy

Additional entry information

You must attend a videoconference interview with the MBA Program Manager.

If you do not satisfy the minimum GPA requirement, you may be required to attend an interview with the MBA Director.

Work experience

Relevant work experience indicates that you will be able to contribute to class discussion. A minimum of three years full-time equivalent professional or managerial work experience is required after you've completed an undergraduate degree. To enable us to assess your work experience, you must supply a current curriculum vitae providing details of your roles, responsibilities and achievements.

Pathways

Applicants may be admitted to the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration with a minimum of 7 years of work experience (6 years minimum equivalent professional work experience plus 1 year minimum supervisory/management experience). Upon completion of the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration with a GPA 4.5 (or higher), students can articulate into the Master of Business Administration.

Possible careers

• Account Executive
• Chief Digital Officer
• Chief Executive Officer
• Chief Financial Officer
• Chief Operating Officer
• Chief Transformational Officer
• Executive Project Manager
• General Manager
• Project Manager