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Master of Business Administration/Master of Information Systems (MC-BUSAIS) // Course structure
About this course
Coordinator
Simon Milton
Contact
Melbourne Business School
Admissions Office
200 Leicester Street
Carlton Victoria 3053 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9349 8200
Email: study@mbs.edu
Melbourne School of Engineering
Ground Floor, Old Engineering (Building 173) Current students:
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: 13MELB (13 6352)
+61 3 9035 5511
Prospective students:
Email: eng-info@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6944
Course structure
A total of twenty-six subjects comprising at least eighteen MBA subjects: eleven core MBA subjects plus seven MBA electives, AND at least six MIS subjects: 4 core MIS subjects plus two Information
Systems (ISYS postgraduate or 9 level) electives. Three of the MBA core subjects are in the area of information systems: Data Analysis, Decision Making and Operations, thus bringing the
IS cognate subjects to a total of eight. The remaining two elective subjects are taken from either electives within the MIS program or MBA subjects or a combination.
The MBA has elective subjects in the areas of Marketing, Finance and accounting, Strategy competition and governance, Organisations human resources and managerial development, Technology and operations management, International business management, Public sector management, and Entrepreneurship and innovation.
The MIS has elective sequences of subjects in the areas of IT service provision, IS project and change management, and in Business analytics.
MBA Core subjects
- Leadership (unit subject) + Social Rseponsibility & Ethics (unit subject)
- Financial Accounting
- Managing People
- Marketing
- Data Analysis
- Managerial Economics
- Operations
- Financial Management
- Business Strategy
- Global Business Economics
- Business in Complex Environments
Plus seven MBA electives
MIS Core subjects
ISYS90043 Business Applications and Architectures
ISYS90032 Emerging Technologies and Issues
ISYS90038 IS Strategy and Governance
ISYS90051 Impact of Digitisation
(note: Data and Decisions, and Managing Processes are both IS related subjects)
Plus at least two ISYS postgraduate (9 level) electives.
Two further electives from the MBA or from ISYS postgraduate (9 level) subjects or combination from each.
Subject options
MIS Core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ISYS90043 | Enterprise Applications & Architectures |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ISYS90032 | Emerging Technologies and Issues |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ISYS90038 | IS Strategy and Governance |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ISYS90051 | Impact of Digitisation |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90480 | Leadership |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
February (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90481 | Social Responsibility and Ethics |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
February (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90001 | Financial Accounting |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90224 | Managing People |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90243 | Marketing |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90060 | Data Analysis |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90093 | Financial Management |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90193 | Managerial Economics |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90227 | Operations |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90074 | Global Business Economics |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90026 | Business Strategy |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020