Business Administration Programs
Master of Business Administration – Melbourne (Bundoora) (LMBAC)
The MBA is designed to enhance the skills that participants bring to the course in order to increase their potential for creating value in the world of business and to meet the priorities of government organisations through effective public administration. It prepares graduates to tackle problems creatively in order to achieve optimum results for the organisation. Specifically, the aims and objectives of the course are:
- to provide participants with an education in the essential techniques of management
- to extend this fundamental knowledge into various areas of specialisation, and
- to achieve a balance between academic rigour and exposure to a wide variety of experience in commerce, industry, and government.
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree in any discipline, have two years postgraduate work experience, be proficient in English and possess strong verbal and written communication skills. Applicants who have completed a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration elsewhere may receive full Advanced Standing and gain direct entry into the MBA program, subject to certain conditions. The program has intakes each year in January, April, July, and September. Applicants may obtain further details and an application package by contacting the school.
Class requirements
The Graduate School of Management reserves the right to offer its subjects in any variety of modes including: seminars, lectures, compressed or block mode, tutorials, LMS delivery or any combination of the above.
Course structure
The MBA program can be taken over 15 months of full-time study or up to four years of part-time (the above applies to graduate Diploma in Business and the MBA). Students must complete 16 subjects, seven core and nine electives.
The School offers the following subjects:
| Core subjects | Subject Codes |
|---|---|
| Financial and Management Accounting | BUA4FMA |
| International Business Environment | BUA4IBE |
| Issues in Strategic Management (MBA only) | BUA4ISM |
| Management Fundamentals | BUA4MGT |
| Marketing | BUA4MKG |
| Organisational Behaviour | BUA4OB |
| Strategic Human Resource Management | BUA4SHR |
| Elective subjects and available specialist streams | |
| Entrepreneurship | |
| Business Improvement Methodology | BUA5BIM |
| Entrepreneurial Business Planning | BUA5EBP |
| Finance | |
| Advanced Management Finance | BUA5AMF |
| Business Analysis and Modelling | BUA5BAM |
| Financial and Management Accounting (core subject) | BUA4FMA |
| Management Finance | BUA5MFN |
| Governance | |
| Business in Society | BUA5BIS |
| Corporate Governance | BUA5GCS |
| Organisational Behaviour (core subject) | BUA4OB |
| Human Resource Management | |
| Developing People and High Performance Organisations | BUA5DPP |
| International and Comparative Human Resource Management | BUA5IHR |
| International Employment Relations | BUA5IER |
| Strategic Human Resource Management (core subject) | BUA4SHR |
| Intellectual Property Management | |
| Funding Technology Start-Ups | BUA5FTS |
| Strategic Management of Intellectual Property | BUA5SMP |
| International Monetary Economics | |
| Applied Business Economics | BUA5ABE |
| International Finance | BUA5IFI |
| Money and Banking | BUA5MAB |
| Risk Management | BUA5RMA |
| Management | |
| Corporate Strategy | BUA5CST |
| International Business Environment (core subject) | BUA4IBE |
| Issues in Strategic Management (MBA core subject) | BUA4ISM |
| The Leadership Challenge | BUA5LDC |
| Management Fundamentals (core subject) | BUA4MGT |
| Management Information Systems | |
| Advanced Management Information Systems | BUA5AMI |
| Management Information Systems | BUA5MIS |
| Marketing | |
| Advanced and International Marketing | BUA5AMK |
| Marketing (core subject) | BUA4MKG |
| Services Marketing and Management | BUA5SMA |
| Customer Relationship Management | BUA5CRM |
| Occupational Health and Safety | |
| Occupational Health and Safety Principles and Legislation | OCT4OHA |
| Ergonomics in Occupational Health and Safety | OCT4OHB |
| Screening and Monitoring Occupational Health and Safety | OCT4OHC |
| Occupational Health and Safety Program Management | OCT4OHD |
Not all electives will be offered each term. The School retains the right to withdraw a subject if there are insufficient enrolments.