Master of Business Administration Online

MANAGEMT 7123OL

Leadership today involves tackling challenges that demand personal and organisational change, requiring both intellectual and emotional understanding. In this course you’ll explore your own leadership journey, philosophy, and growth areas. Use contemporary models to diagnose challenges, assess team capabilities, and understand workplace culture, gaining essential skills for effective leadership in any environment.

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MANAGEMT 7126OL

This course aims to enhance your financial literacy, enabling you to evaluate organisational financial performance effectively. Through the development of your accounting language, learn to interpret financial statements, balance sheets and cash flow reports. You’ll also be introduced to crucial concepts including capital budgeting, and risk-return dynamics, essential for managing finances.

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MANAGEMT 7124OL

Marketing is essential for all businesses, regardless of size or sector, as it involves engaging with customers or clients for revenue. In this course you’ll dive into fundamental marketing principles, including the need for customer orientation, market evaluation, targeting opportunities, consumer behavior, and integrating product decisions with pricing, distribution, and promotion.

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MANAGEMT 7125OL

Entrepreneurship isn't just about starting new businesses; it involves a range of skills including creative agile thinking, recognising opportunities in competitive markets, problem solving through failure and navigating ambiguity in changing environments. Develop the skills increasingly valued by employers and necessary for success in today's dynamic marketplace, whether in startups, corporations, government, or social enterprises.

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MANAGEMT 7127OL

This course acknowledges the importance of gaining competitive advantages in today's dynamic business environment, emphasising that innovative enterprises tend to outperform non-innovative ones in terms of growth, financial performance, and employment. The role of innovation leaders is crucial for organisational success, and managing innovation requires managers to effectively translate ideas into actions. The course equips managers with the knowledge and tools necessary to foster innovative behaviours within enterprises, ultimately leading to successful innovation outputs.

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MANAGEMT 7128OL

Smart processes, structures and a positive workplace culture can amplify your vision as a leader. In this course you’ll examine the key influences and tools to enhance effective management action, focusing on the human factors that are dealt with by managers on a day-to-day basis. Learn how to stay competitive by mobilising and developing staff, making ethical decisions and successfully managing interdependencies.

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ECON 7244OL

Enterprises, public-sector organisations and not-for-profits operate in a highly dynamic and often very competitive economic environment, where they must meet organisational goals while constrained by limited resources. Effective managerial decision-making requires a deep and extensive understanding of this environment. Valuable topics for managers in this course include scarcity and opportunity costs; money and finance; the macroeconomic environment; behavioural economics; competition and pricing; strategic decisions; market failure; innovation; globalisation; and the growing significance of ecological sustainability and climate change policy for business.

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MANAGEMT 7131OL

This course teaches essential tools for leveraging business research in managerial decision-making to minimise uncertainty. It covers basic vs. applied research, highlights the benefits of undertaking research, and demonstrates its role in strategy development. You'll gain the skills and frameworks needed to succeed in a final research project for your MBA.

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MANAGEMT 7129OL

Enterprise success relies on a well-defined strategy where managers link organisational goals, resources, and the business environment to drive higher performance. They play a crucial role in developing and communicating this strategy, ensuring alignment and empowering teams to contribute effectively. This course follows a three-step approach: understanding the environment (what can be done?), selecting actions (what and why?), and implementation (how?).

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MANAGEMT 7130OL

Modern challenges require managers to adopt systems thinking, which considers the interconnectedness of finance, economics, markets, people, and nature. Systems thinking focuses on the relationships among system elements and the interactions of the system with its environment, rather than the elements themselves – holistic (integrative) thinking vs analytic (dissective) thinking. In this course, you'll explore how managers can use systems thinking to navigate complex environments and influence outcomes more than they could with linear or mechanistic thinking.

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MANAGEMT 7133AOL & MANAGEMT 7133BOL

The final research project aims to apply classroom learning in a practical setting by through a supervisor-guided research project based on learnings from the Research for Managers course. Based on a proposal submitted for approval at the conclusion of the Research for Managers course, students collaborate in teams of two to three or individually with supervisors to conduct research, analyse findings, prepare a comprehensive report, and deliver a final presentation.

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General Managers operate as one of the senior, key decision-makers at an organisation, with responsibility for profit and loss. In Australia, they enjoy an annual average salary of $165,000, with a 9.6% expected job growth over the next five years.

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Business Consultants are responsible for creating strategies for continual business improvement. In Australia, they enjoy an annual average salary of $120,000, with a 32.2% expected job growth of the next five years.

Source: SEEK

Geoff Birt, a graduate of the University of Adelaide MBA, discusses his experience and the insights gained from pursuing his degree, while reflecting on how the MBA program equipped him with valuable critical thinking, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

Read how Geoff furthered his career through understanding the importance of networking and continuous learning in business.

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We’re here to support you at each stage of your study journey, from enrolment through to post-graduation. Our team of Student Success Advisors will draw from their wealth of knowledge and maximise your study experience through personalised support via phone and email.

Get assistance on your program, learning support, academic resources and counselling and disability support. Be guided by leading academic instructors in each of your courses who will provide support and feedback, and take advantage of 24/7 tutoring and writing review services in writing, maths, statistics and computer science.

In each course you’ll find expert teaching staff and leading faculty members who want to inspire and support you.

We tailor your classroom to the online learner, teaching each course using short instructional videos, podcasts and real-life case studies all available on-demand.

Study your MBA alongside like-minded students, with opportunities to network with your fellow students, industry leaders and alumni at each step of your study journey.

Be prepared to take the next step in your career equipped with your degree and our complimentary career support. Online resources including interview training, career planning and resume reviews will place you as a strong candidate for your dream role.

Collaborative learning is at the core of our online MBA. Activities and exercises will require you to problem solve and draw on real-world business examples. As such, relevant work experience is important for your success.

To be eligible, you need to meet one the following requirements:

1. A completed undergraduate bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and a minimum of 2 years' relevant work experience.
2. No degree, completed GMAT with a score of >500 and a minimum of 2 years' relevant work experience.
3. A completed university Graduate Certificate in Business Administration.

If you do not meet the above entry requirements, you may be eligible to study our Graduate Certificate in Business Administration.

In order to meet the English language proficiency requirements for our 100% online postgraduate programs, you must be able to demonstrate that you meet the minimum English Language requirements.

Typically, if English is your first language you will not be required to provide evidence of English language proficiency. You will also not be required to provide evidence of English language proficiency if you are an Australian citizen, Australian Permanent Resident (visa status) or hold a passport from one of the following countries: Canada (English-speaking provinces only), New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

To learn more, visit the English Language Proficiency Requirements for detailed information about these requirements, including acceptable English language tests.

We also recommend that you speak to an Enrolment Advisor to discuss options that are specific to your circumstances. You can schedule a call here.

There are multiple pathways into the MBA. If you don’t meet the entry requirements, the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration could be your ticket to the full master’s.

All fees are indicative only. Tuition costs are calculated based on the actual courses the student takes to complete the award. All fees are provided in Australian dollars (AUD).

For Postgraduate programs, the quoted fee is a base fee that is subject to an annual increase for each year of the standard duration of a program.

The University of Adelaide’s online MBA is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), known worldwide as the longest-standing, most recognised form of specialised accreditation that an institution and its business programs can earn. Accreditation is a voluntary, non-governmental process that includes a rigorous external review of a school's mission, faculty qualifications, curricula, and ability to provide the highest-quality programs.

The MBA research project (courses MANAGEMT 7133AOL & MANAGEMT 7133BOL) involves applied research conducted within a workplace and can be completed alone or in teams. Students play a significant role in defining their research project. The project will begin in the Research for Managers course and will have the opportunity to be refined in following courses. Research projects will also be supported by a research mentor who will provide guidance throughout the course.

It is recommended that students do not commence the research project until they get to the research project course. Students can conceptualise their projects prior to starting, however, ethics clearance for collecting primary data must be received before data is collected from participants, otherwise it cannot be used.

Yes, students can pick an IT-focused project on any industry. 

Students may apply for credit on the basis of informal learning (including but not limited to learning gained during work experience, volunteering, internships, or workplace training), however, note that this is normally in conjunction with previous study in order to meet the 80% course equivalence. 

Where work experience is a requirement for entry into the program, informal learning is only considered where an applicant has specialised course knowledge (eg. specialised work experience or workplace training combined with an undergraduate degree in a specialised area). Contact an enrolment advisor for more information.

Yes, students can study an MBA without holding a degree in Australia. The University of Adelaide offers an online Graduate Certificate in Business Administration pathway program into its online MBA, for students without prior education. The online Graduate Certificate in Business Administration makes up the first four courses of the online MBA, providing a natural pathway into the MBA. 

A pass is all that is required to continue studies from the GCBA to the MBA.