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Overview
Early graduation options
You may be able to graduate sooner with:
- Transform your thinking to lead and manage in complex business environments.
- Students undertake an extensive foundation component of 16 core units of six credit points each and a further 48 credit points of optional units in the areas of leadership and strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, or in discipline areas which interest them.
- Students will complete their MBA with a workplace project that will offer them the opportunity to creatively plan for a new venture or to engage in a consultancy project for an organisation.
| QUT course code | GS75 |
| Attendance | Part-time or Full-time |
| Course duration | 1.5 years full-time
3 years part-time |
| Start month | 2013 March, July |
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On campus
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| CRICOS code | 045502F |
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Details
The program will teach you to challenge conventions and go beyond established pathways, and equip you to lead and manage decisively in a complex business world. As a QUT MBA student you will critically analyse business situations and develop innovative solutions to real-world cases. Through flexible and innovative units, you will develop the skills essential to becoming a global business professional. The practical nature of this course enables you to apply concepts and management techniques learned in class directly to your workplace. You gain the knowledge and skills to become an effective leader and manager within your organisation.
Units
Course structure
The MBA program is made up four components that build on each other to provide you with an integrated and multi disciplinary curriculum to equip you to take on the challenges and opportunities of a complex business environment.
Each MBA unit of six credit points is delivered in a seven-week module (six weeks teaching with final assessment in week seven).
1. Building Foundations
- Strategic Management
- Communicating to Influence
- Economics in Business
- Problem Framing for Creative Action
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Fundamentals of Marketing Management
- Personal Leadership and Change
- Data Analysis and Decision Making
2. Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making
- Understanding and Leading Others
- Business Law
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Management
- Human Resources Management Issues
- Managing Technological Innovation
- Leadership and Complexity
- Corporate Governance and Accountability
3. Concentrations
Students can then add greater depth in an area of interest by choosing a concentration in Leadership and Strategy or Entrepreneurship and Innovation or a specific discipline pathway from within the QUT Business School's postgraduate offerings or from other schools and faculties at QUT.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Investment Strategies for Technology
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- New Venture Funding
- New Venture Growth and Transitions
- Services Innovation
Leadership and Strategy
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Investment Strategies for Technology
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Stakeholder Engagement and Media Principles
- Improving Business Operations
- Advanced Strategy for Global Business
Discipline Specific Concentration
Students have two options within this concentration. They may complete 36 credit points from a specific area of interest in a discipline or 24 credit points plus Systems Thinking for Managers and one unit from the elective component of the MBA program. Discipline areas could include Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance or Healthcare
If you complete the Leadership and Strategy or the Entrepreneurship and Innovation concentration the title will appear on your academic transcript.
4. Integrated Workplace Project
The final component of the MBA program is made up of two capstone units which provide you with the opportunity to apply what you have learned in the program to real opportunities in a new venture or within an organisation.
- Integrated Workplace Project 1 - Business Research Methods
- Integrated Workplace Project 2 - Organisational Opportunities and Ventures
Those students who have completed the Entrepreneurial and Innovation concentration will undertake an Entrepreneurial project and those who have completed the Leadership and Strategy concentration or the Discipline specific pathway will engage in a Consultancy project.
All course structures
Entry requirements
To be considered for admission, applicants must:
- demonstrate proficiency in the English language
- hold a Bachelor degree in any field from a recognised university with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 on QUT's 7-point scale
- have a GMAT score of at least 550
- have a minimum three years full-time equivalent relevant managerial or professional work experience post-degree
- provide two referee reports on proforma.
Prior academic achievement
Prior academic study at the Bachelor level can be in any field at any recognised tertiary institution. Original or certified copies of academic transcripts that show date of completion or conferral of degree(s) and a Grade Point Average (GPA) must be provided. Not all undergraduate degrees from overseas institutions are assessed as being equivalent to Australian bachelor degrees. Applicants who have not completed a recognised bachelor degree, including the three-year diploma in China, will be considered for admission into the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration based on their Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score, prior work experience and referee reports.
Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
As applicants may come from a range of fields and their work experience may be diverse, a management aptitude test score is a useful indicator of an applicant's ability to meet the program's academic requirements. All applicants are required to undertake the GMAT. There will be no exemptions based on prior education or experience. GMAT test scores are valid for five years.
If you have already undertaken the GMAT QUT needs to see a certified copy of your Test Takers Score. If you are planning to take the GMAT, please have the results sent directly to QUT (our identification number is 1677).
GMAT details (PDF file, 271.78 KB)
Work experience
Relevant work experience indicates applicants will be able to contribute to class discussion. A minimum of three years full-time equivalent professional or managerial work experience is required after the completion of an undergraduate degree. To enable us to assess your work experience, a current curriculum vitae providing details of your roles, responsibilities and achievements is required.
Referee reports
All applicants must obtain two referee reports on the referee proforma. At least one referee report should be from your current employer. The referees may choose to send the recommendations directly to QUT (fax, email and postal addresses are provided on the proforma).
Course fees
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. All fees are based on current fixed fee prices. We review fees annually.
Scholarships
We offer a number of merit-based scholarships to exceptional successful applicants to the MBA and MBA (Major) programs. Eligibility for a scholarship is based on GMAT score, undergraduate grade point average, work experience, plus a written supporting statement from the applicant.
2013: $14,900 (indicative) per Semester (subject to annual review)
Student Services and Amenities Fee
You'll need to pay the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) as part of your course costs.
FEE-HELP: loans to help you pay your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a FEE-HELP loan.
Find out if you're eligible for a FEE-HELP loan
Scholarships and financial support
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
These scholarships are available for this course:
You may also be eligible for Centrelink payments
Apply
How to apply for Master of Business Administration (MBA)
You apply directly to QUT for all our postgraduate courses.
Are you ready to submit your application?
You're ready if you have:
- Found all the courses you want to apply for. You can apply for up to 3.
- Checked important dates.
- Checked you meet the entry requirements.
- Checked your course costs and if you're eligible for scholarships.
- Collected your supporting documents:
- certified copies or original academic transcripts
- current curriculum vitae
- certified or original GMAT Test Takers Score
- scholarship application (if applicable).
All done? Then you're ready to apply.
Application for postgraduate course admission form (PDF file, 362.47 KB)
Important: Please send or deliver your application form to the following address, rather than the one on the form:
QUT Graduate School of Business
- Phone: 3138 1057
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 1057
- Fax: 3138 1299
- Email: gsb@qut.edu.au
- Level 4, B Block
Gardens Point
2 George St
Brisbane QLD
- Postal address:
QUT Graduate School of Business
2 George St
Brisbane Qld 4001
Enquire
Peter Hollands, Program Manager, has an intimate knowledge of the programs. Speak to him today.
Call +61 7 3138 6874
Email p.hollands@qut.edu.au
