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Master of Business Administration (MC-BA218) // Course structure
About this course
Contact
Melbourne Business School
Currently enrolled students
Degree Program Services
Email: programservices@mbs.edu
Coordinator
Sven Feldmann
Course structure
218.75 credit points:
- Core subjects (143.75 credit points)
- Elective subjects (75 credit points)
Progression rule
Students need to complete Leadership as the first subject.
Students who successfully complete 25 credit points will be eligible to receive the Professional Certificate in Business and Administration. Students who successfully complete 50 credit points will be eligible to receive the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration. Students who successfully complete 112.5 credit points will be eligible to receive the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Core subjects
143.75 credit points:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BUSA90552 | Business Essentials |
July (Online)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
August (Online)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
October (Online)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90480 | Leadership |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
October (Online)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90481 | Managerial Ethics & Business Environment |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
October (Online)
|
6.25 |
BUSA90060 | Data Analysis |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90224 | Managing People |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90243 | Marketing |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90001 | Financial Accounting |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90093 | Finance |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (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 |
BUSA90553 | Business Essentials 2 | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BUSA90227 | Operations |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90026 | Business Strategy |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90533 | MBA Capstone |
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
Elective subjects
75 credit points: 6 elective subjects x 12.5 credit points each subject.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BUSA90360 | Business Law | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90042 | Consumer Behaviour | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90046 | Corporate Finance | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90053 | Corporate Strategy |
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90492 | Financial Analysis and Valuation | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90090 | Financial Institutions | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90491 | Game Theory for Business Strategy | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90132 | Industry Studies in Asia | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BUSA90124 | Implementation of Strategy | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90218 | Innovation |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90167 | Investments | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90172 | Leadership and Change | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90248 | Marketing Communications | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90258 | Marketing Research | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90261 | Marketing Strategy | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90270 | Mergers and Acquisitions |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90273 | Negotiations |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
May (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90494 | Performance Metrics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BUSA90341 | Supply Chain Management | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90086 | Thinking like an Entrepreneur | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BUSA90458 | Managerial Judgement | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90493 | Business Analytics | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90013 | Brand Management |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90523 | Managing Diversity in the Workplace | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90524 | Fintech: Blockchain in the New Economy | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MGMT90244 | Leading in Data Driven Organisations | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BISY90016 | Predictive Analytics | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BISY90017 | Quant. Decision Making & Optimisation | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90521 | Supply Chain Analytics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
MKTG90039 | Marketing Analytics | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FNCE90079 | Finance and Accounting Analytics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BUSA90527 | Digital Product Management | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90530 | Managing Sustainability for Strat. Adv. |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (Online)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90531 | Analytics for Strategic Management | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90548 | Individual Research Project | Not available in 2023 | 25 |
BUSA90498 | Leading in Transformational Times |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BUSA90074 | Global Business Economics | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90279 | Organisational Change | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BUSA90549 | Strategic Pricing & Business Insights | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
(*Global Business Economics, which was a core subject in the current course structure, will be removed as a core subject in the proposed course structure. Instead it will be added to the elective component as an elective subject in the proposed course structure)
(*The current Capstone subject BUSA90490 Integrative Business Capstone will still be offered to the current MBA students in the transitioning period. After the transitioning period, this subject will be offered as an elective subject and the subject title will be changed)
Last updated: 10 November 2023