Program Overview

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) Advanced is designed for experienced professionals with ambition and drive who wish to develop their responsible and sustainable leadership skills. You will gain a holistic strategic business point-of-view required to operate effectively in an increasingly competitive and changing global business world.

The course has been designed to cover three stages:

• Diagnostics - learn to diagnose issues in real organisations with a focus on marketing, employee engagement, talent management and accounting.
• Exploration - explore the latest thinking and practices in organisations and research worldwide, while developing skills in innovation and business transformation.
• Integration and Application - develop your strategic decision-making skills, undertake a real-world business project and hone your personal effectiveness as a responsible leader.

The MBA Advanced offers students the opportunity to specialise further in their area of interest by completing four additional subjects from a specialisation of their choice. Specialisations are available in accounting, business analytics, finance, innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, marketing, project management, or supply chain management.

Your learning approach will include real-world case studies, experiential learning including planning and executing an integrated and live business project towards the end of the course, and teamwork, with an emphasis on peer learning.

Specialisation: Business Analytics

Skilled business analysts are highly valued in industries across the globe. The skills to explore and interpret big data and uncover hidden value from multiple data sources can assist businesses in making intelligent and informed choices that enhance profitability.

Business analytics focuses on the systematic collection of data and development of data sets, data analysis through statistical and other techniques, and most importantly, the interpretation and effective communication of insights gained from data to inform strategic organisational decisions.

This major will help you develop the skills to become a strategic business problem solver and be an essential part of decisions made across the entire business lifecycle. Learn how to analyse large volumes of data to support decision making across all areas of business. You will gain an understanding of data management concepts and processing of relational data with Structured Query Language (SQL), the concepts of data confidentiality and security, modelling techniques to analyse contemporary finance and economics issues, and techniques that can be used to measure marketing effectiveness.

You will also undertake a final-year capstone subject where you will collaborate with students from other disciplines to demonstrate all that you have learned. You'll also have opportunities to gain valuable professional experience through an internship as part of your degree.