Master of Business Administration

Our MBA allows you to expand your professional skills and knowledge to achieve your career goals.

The degree provides you with a comprehensive set of skills in the key fields of decision making, ethics, management, marketing and strategy needed to operate in a globalised economy.

Course Aims

The Master of Business Administration is designed for working professionals seeking to broaden their skills and expand their opportunities within or beyond their current field of employment. This award sets out to provide graduates an opportunity to develop an advanced and integrated set of core competencies across a range of business disciplines and their embodied theory and principles. It will enable them to effectively identify, analyse and resolve any management issue they encounter. Students can undertake electives in specialist subjects and complete a major in Human Resource Management which is accredited by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI). A blended learning model is used to enable students to interact with the unit coordinators and each other, creating a collaborative community of learning.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: demonstrate advanced and integrated knowledge of contemporary business and management theory to promote sustainable business in a globalised economy, and the ability to plan and execute a substantial research-based project; utilise advanced cognitive and communication skills, tools and digital technologies to communicate appropriately and persuasively with a range of stakeholders; demonstrate an advanced ability to use creativity and judegement in analysing business problems to identify possible solutions; identify, critically evaluate and synthesise relevant information drawn from a range of sources in order to analyse complex business-related issues; critically evaluate and demonstrate advanced judgement in formulating high-level responses to complex social, cultural and ethical issues in a range of organisational contexts; demonstrate a preparedness to engage in continuous learning and reflection to develop new insights into professional practice; and illustrate advanced and integrated skills in working autonomously and with others to generate solutions and show a capacity to function as a leader, including the ability to collaborate in a range of contexts to achieve individual and common goals.

Graduate Attributes

Knowledge of a Discipline Knowledge of a discipline is taught, practised and assessed in all units. Students will develop an advanced and integrated knowledge of key business and management theory and critically apply knowledge at an advanced level in business contexts to solve business problems. Students will also demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the global environment in which business is conducted. Students will learn through independent research, interaction with unit materials, unit coordinators and fellow students, and will be assessed using case analysis of both hypothetical and real-world examples, workplace learning by analysing and applying theory to their own workplace, theory-based assignments and via multiple examination modes. Communication Skills Communication skills are taught, practised and assessed throughout this course. Students will utilise advanced cognitive and communication skills, tools and digital techologies to communicate appropriately and persuasively with a range of stakeholders. Students will develop oral, written and presentation skills relevant to business contexts through assessments such as essays and oral presentations. Problem Solving This graduate attribute is taught, practised and assessed throughout the course using scenarios requiring students to use advanced cognitive and critical thinking skills to identify business issues, and to critically analyse and evaluate the relevant theories and concepts to construct business solutions. Information Literacy Information literacy is taught, practised and assessed throughout the course as students need to identify, critically evaluate and synthesise relevant information drawn from a range of sources in order to analyse complex business-related issues. Ethical Conduct and Social Responsibility Throughout the course, ethical conduct and social responsibility is taught, practised and assessed. Students need to reflect on the principles of professional and social responsibility and critically apply these to a range of ethical issues and scenarios. This is assessed through evaluation and analysis of reflective based and scenario based assessment tasks. Lifelong Learning Lifelong learing is taught and assessed in this course through reflective tasks that encourage critical analysis of professional experience, and appreciation of business as a dynamic discipline. Independence and Collaboration This graduate attribute is taught, practised and assessed in this course. Students are required to work independently and complete learning and assessment activities that require self-directed learning and initiative. Students are also required to collaborate in a variety of learning and assessment tasks throughout the course.