Master of Business Administration (Executive)

Masters (Coursework)

Exciting changes are underway, making our Master of Business Administration (Executive) more accessible, flexible, and time-efficient, allowing you to complete the course in a shorter duration while effortlessly managing your busy schedule.

Key details

Degree Type

Masters (Coursework)

Duration

4 - 5 years full-time

Course Code

37O2

About this course

Exciting changes are underway, making our Master of Business Administration (Executive) more accessible, flexible, and time-efficient, allowing you to complete the course in a shorter duration while effortlessly managing your busy schedule.

In the meantime, if you are interested in studying this course, please contact us via MBA@utas.edu.au and we'll be in touch when our confirmed 2024 course details are available.

Please note, the updates to this course include proposed changes to our admission requirements, course intakes and eligibility for credit; so please reach out even if you're not yet sure if this is the right course for you.

Entry requirements

For entry into the MBA (Executive) students must meet the following criteria:

Minimum of five (5) years managerial experience

and

Completion of an AQF Level 7 (or higher) degree in an Australian higher education institution or the equivalent standard in any other institution; or
Completion of an AQF Level 6 Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree qualification.

What you will learn

1 Demonstrate self-evaluative managerial capability by reflecting on the impact of managerial behaviours and decision making about sustainable, ethical and socially responsible business practices

2 Critically evaluate business theory, practices and principles to support analysis of their efficacy, in uncertain organisational contexts

3 Communicate evidence-based arguments in both written and oral formats across diverse audiences to ensure mutual understanding and accuracy

4 Resolve complex organisational challenges in local, regional and global contexts by integrating critical analysis, managerial and leadership capability, and relevant theory

5 Conduct and communicate research into current or emerging topics relevant to organisations locally, regionally or globally

Career pathways

Your career outcomes may see you advance from technical management to senior general management or from operations to strategic roles. Alternatively, you may make a move from management into the board.

The Executive MBA is your steppingstone from management into leadership and beyond . The aim of the program is to develop capabilities to envision and respond to the profound shifts in the way business works as part of a broader community. Capabilities such as risk management, resilience, strategic thinking and ethical leadership developed during this course are in demand locally, nationally, and globally. They are relevant across commercial, public sector, and not-for-profit organisations at very senior levels.

The Executive MBA prepares you to meet the demands of organisations seeking deep managerial competence, human-centred leadership capability, strategic focus, and a commitment to sustainable business. Executive level, broad-based business capabilities, are in short supply with employers expecting formal qualifications to complement managerial work experience and the deep, practical insights that MBA courses develop .

Taking the step from senior or technical management into a senior leadership or board role can be daunting. The Executive MBA program prepares you to successfully meet the personal and professional challenges ahead.

Course structure

The MBA offers a 200 credit point course of which 50 credit points can be drawn from specialisation units.

150 credit points are taken from the Transition, Core and Research blocks and elective/specialisation units account for 50 credit points.

To achieve a specialised MBA students must take all four mandated units from within a specialisation

To achieve a non-specialised MBA students can select any four units from across the specialisation units.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Business & Management courses at University of Tasmania.

74.3%

Overall satisfaction

76%

Skill scale

65.2%

Teaching scale

87.9%

Employed full-time

$109k

Average salary

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