Business Administration (Advanced)

Overview

Overview

The Master of Business Administration (Advanced) is designed to enhance the skillset of bachelor degree graduates who have a minimum of three years management experience and wish to progress to senior management roles. It is applicable to a range of industries.

This two-year course is an extension of our reputable flagship MBA program, so features the foundation units offered within the MBA plus the opportunity to complete additional units that aim to enhance both your business and research skills. This includes a specialisation, as well as a real-world industry project and elective units.

Undertaking work experience could increase your job opportunities, especially with multinational companies and local small businesses.

The applied research unit gives you the chance to work with an industry partner on a real-world project. You'll identify a business problem and develop a project through which you can apply key business theories, concepts, tools and techniques within a practical context. In addition to industry-specific knowledge, you'll also gain transferable skills like effective stakeholder communication.

The broad-based business units focus on enhancing your business strategy, entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Options include Entrepreneurship, Fundamentals of Leadership, Strategic Operations Management, Managerial Effectiveness and Strategic Project Management.

Once you have completed two trimesters of full-time study, you will be able to specialise in one of the following areas:

• Business Administration
• Innovation and Enterprise
• Leadership
• Oil and Gas

International Student Scholarship

High achieving international students may be eligible for the Curtin International Merit Scholarship. Successful recipients of this scholarship will receive a reduction in tuition fees by 25% for the duration of the MBA (Advanced), if the prescribed course weighted averaged is maintained.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.

What you'll learn

• apply foundation knowledge demonstrating a broad coverage of key functional disciplines of business management with a thorough foundation in contemporary business theories; be able to apply these in a group or organisational environment; extend the boundaries of knowledge through an independently identified research problem using a relevant and methodologically sound set of techniques
• create, critically evaluate and reflect upon innovative ideas and strategies within ambiguous and uncertain business environments (which includes business, government and not-for-profit)
• select appropriate information using technologies; make valid judgements and synthesise information from a range of sources; access, evaluate and synthesise diverse information for intelligent business application
• communicate professionally and effectively in ways to appropriately interpret technical and non-technical information to a varied set of stakeholders, for a range of purposes and to a professional standard
• select and utilise appropriate technologies and appreciate their advantages and limitations
• possess and be able to use life-long learning strategies to maintain currency in professional practice
• recognise and apply international perspectives within the business environment; apply international standards of practice and evaluate issues from a variety of perspectives
• develop shared understandings of contemporary relevant issues which demonstrate a high and balanced level of cultural awareness in a diverse cultural business setting
• demonstrate, through self-leadership, a duty of care, honesty, integrity, fairness and knowledge of principles and law to uphold the ethical requirements of the profession