Program Overview

If you're keen to learn invaluable business skills and invest in your future, La Trobe's Master of Business Information Systems (MBIS) will help you advance your career in an exciting sector. Designed in collaboration with industry experts, our Master of Business Information Systems will prepare you for professional practice.

Learn how to design, operate and analyse business information systems. You'll understand the latest techniques and templates, so you'll graduate with the skills to start your own enterprise or thrive in the world of start-ups.

Use the latest tools to analyse data, turn it into insights, then use this information to drive real business value. You'll learn through practical, team-based business intelligence projects and use industry tools such as SAP HANA, Design Thinking and R Studio. Plus, you'll collaborate with industry when you build and deploy a real-world business intelligence system.

You'll also gain high-level skills when you choose a specialisation in your area of interest, including artificial intelligence in business, data science, applied digital health and more. Graduate with your specialisation on your academic transcript, so future employers can recognise your expertise.

Develop advanced analytical skills and understand how to use data to build information systems and databases. Learn how to create enterprise-wide computing systems and grow business intelligence. You'll can also put these skills to the test – working in small teams, you'll design a real-world business intelligence system.

Learn from world-class academics and be immersed in research at La Trobe's Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition (CDAC). The CDAC staff also teach in the Master of Business Information Systems and work with international research groups to develop industry-leading research into artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.

Get an added edge with optional industry partnerships, such as the SAS work placement program.

You'll learn:

• Integrated information systems and business: Learn how information systems are effectively designed, planned, analysed and managed in business contexts.
• Business intelligence: Understand how to use intelligent data-mining technologies to improve decision-making in a wide range of sectors, including retail, banking and finance.
• Business analytics: Understand the unique needs of businesses and learn how to improve their processes
• Enterprise information systems: Learn about enterprise-wide computing systems and understand how organisations use them to develop customer-centric business strategies and integrate business processes in accounting, finance, human resources, sales and marketing.
• Artificial intelligence fundamentals: Explore the fundamental concepts and different applications of AI. Design and develop AI models for real-world problems in our labs.
• Predictive analytics: Learn how to use data to predict future events. You'll build and use predictive models in real business scenarios and learn how to use one of the most widely used predictive analytics software tools.

Specialisation: Accounting for Business

Gain a competitive edge and broaden your business career prospects by mastering the foundations of accounting.

From fundamental accounting principles and applying business intelligence tools to measure, record and generate data for analysis and decision-making, to financial and management accounting and understanding the key components of business value – like budgeting, costing, pricing and performance management – you'll build advanced skills and knowledge highly sought after in the global business and accounting profession.