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Master of Business Administration

MBA

120 cp

Minimum duration:  1.5 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

Available at                     Brisbane Campus Qld

                                     Melbourne Campus Vic

                                     North Sydney Campus NSW

EFTSL value of units:   All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.

 

(a)     REQUIREMENT FOR COMPLETION OF THE DEGREE

1.1     To qualify for the degree, a student must complete 120 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

 

          (a)           80 cp from Core units; and

          (b)           40 cp from Electives[1].

 

1.2     An applicant who has completed the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration or Graduate Diploma in Business Administration or equivalent may be granted advanced standing.

 

(b)    EXIT POINTS

A student who has completed the requirements prescribed for the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration or Graduate Diploma in Business Administration may exit from the course with the relevant award.

 

SCHEDULE OF UNIT OFFERINGS

Prerequisite (Pre), co-requisite (Co) and incompatible (Inc) units are indicated in parentheses where applicable.

CORE UNITS

ACCT600           10         Accounting for Decision-Making

BAFI600            10         Corporate Finance

BUSO600          10         Ethical Leadership (Inc: MGMT638 Leadership in Organisations)

BUSO603          10         Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility (Pre: MGMT641 Organisational Dynamics and Change Management or MGMT602 Organisational Behaviour. Inc: MGMT633 Ethics and Organisational Governance)

ECON600          10         Managerial Economics

MGMT602         10         Organisational Behaviour (Inc: MGMT641 Organisational Dynamics and Change Management)

MGMT605         10         Strategic Management (Inc: MGMT640 Strategic Management and Decision-Making)

MGMT633          10         Ethics and Organisational Governance (Inc: BUSO603 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility)

MGMT638         10         Leadership in Organisations (Inc: BUSO600 Ethical Leadership) 

MGMT640         10         Strategic Management and Decision-Making (Pre: MGMT641 Organisational Dynamics and Change Management

or MGMT602 Organisational Behaviour. Inc: MGMT605 Strategic Management))

MGMT641         10         Organisational Dynamics and Change Management (Inc: MGMT602 Organisational Behaviour)

MKTG600          10         Marketing Management

 

ELECTIVES

Accounting

ACCT601          10         Australian Auditing and Assurance Services (Pre: ACCT600 Accounting for Decision-Making)

ACCT602          10         Accounting and Accountability (Pre: ACCT600 Accounting for Decision-Making)

ACCT603          10         Accounting for Corporate Structures (Pre: ACCT600 Accounting for Decision-Making)

ACCT604          10         Strategic Managerial Accounting (Pre: ACCT600 Accounting for Decision-Making)

ACCT605          10         Strategic Resource Management (Pre: ACCT604 Strategic Managerial Accounting)

BAFI602            10         Financial Analysis and Business Valuation (Pre: BAFI600 Corporate Finance)

LEGL601           10         Commercial and Corporations Law

LEGL602           10         Taxation Law (Pre: LEGL601 Commercial and Corporations Law)

E-commerce

INFO601           10         Applied Data Communications

INFO603           10         Database Systems

INFO605           10         Electronic Commerce

INFO617           10         Web Technologies

INFO618           10         Portable Applications and Network Programming

Information Systems

INFO602           10         Current Issues in Information Systems

INFO604           10         Distributed Systems

INFO607           10         Information Management

INFO608           10         Information Systems and the Law

INFO609           10         Information Systems Security

INFO610           10         Management of Organisational Change

INFO612           10         Software Design

INFO613           10         Systems Development Methodologies

INFO616           10         Human Factors in Information Systems

MGMT635         10         Management of Resources: Information

International Business

BAFI601            10         International Finance (Pre: BAFI600 Corporate Finance)

BUSO601          10         Entrepreneurship (Pre: 40cp including MKTG600 Marketing Management. Inc: MGMT629 Small Business Management)

BUSO602          10         Comparative Business Cultures

BUSO604          10         Special Study (International Business)

LEGL600           10         Comparative Regulatory Frameworks

MGMT629         10         Small Business Management (Inc: BUSO601 Entrepreneurship)

MGMT630         10         International Political Economy

MKTG602          10         International Marketing (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

PERS600          10         International Human Resource Management

Marketing

MKTG601          10         Corporate Marketing (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG602          10         International Marketing (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG603          10         Marketing Research (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG604          10         International Consumer Behaviour (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG605          10         Marketing Communication (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG606           10         Strategic Marketing (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG607          10         Internet Marketing (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

MKTG608          10         Services Marketing

People Management

MGMT601         10         Strategic Human Resource Management

MGMT621         10         Management of Change

MGMT622         10         Quality Management

MGMT626         10         Contemporary Management Issues

MGMT627         10         Project Management

MGMT628         10         Public Sector Management

MGMT631         10         Employment Relations (Inc: PERS601 Workplace Relations)

MGMT632         10         Spirituality in the Workplace

MGMT634         10         Management of Resources: People

MGMT636         10         Problem-solving for Managers

MGMT637         10         Knowledge Management

PERS600          10         International Human Resource Management

PERS601          10         Workplace Relations (Inc: MGMT631 Employment Relations)

PERS602          10         Managing Diversity

Sports Management

EXSC660          10         Policy Development in Sport

EXSC661          10         Sport Law and the Regulatory Environment

EXSC662          10         Sport in the Global Economy

EXSC663          10         Sports Marketing and Communication (Pre: MKTG600 Marketing Management)

EXSC664          10         Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in Sport and Exercise (Pre: MGMT640 Strategic Management and Decision-Making)

EXSC665          10         Facility and Event Management for Sport and Exercise

EXSC666          10         Athlete and Player Management

EXSC667          10         Sport, Culture and Politics

 

 



[1] A student may undertake up to 20 cp in electives from other Master’s level degrees (subject to campus availability, unit limitations and provided that prerequisite and co-requisite requirements are met).