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Master of Business Administration (MBA) 

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When you study an MBA with Swinburne Online, you will have the flexibility to choose from three course streams: Business, Project Management or Cybersecurity Management. Tailor your course to suit your unique interests and goals, and become a specialist in your chosen field.

  • The Business stream consists of 12 units, including eight core units and four elective units.
  • The Project Management stream consists of 12 units, including nine core units and three Project Management elective units.
  • The Cybersecurity Management stream consists of 12 units, including eight core units and four Cybersecurity Management units.
All students must complete the following units:

Business Strategy

Economics

Opportunity Discovery

Corporate Financial Management

Behaviour in Organisations

Marketing Management

Leadership for Innovation

Accounting Systems and Reporting

Choose four of the following:

Designing for Change

Strategic Project Management

Operations Management

Corporations and Contract Law

Leading Innovation in the Workforce

Project Management for Innovative Outcomes

The Risk Management Spectrum

Leading Complex Projects

Project Governance and Resource Management

Governing Technology for Business Environments

All Project Management students must complete Strategic Project Management. Choose four of the following:

Project Management for Innovative Outcomes

The Risk Management Spectrum

Leading Complex Projects

Project Governance and Resource Management

Operations Management

Strategic Project Management

All Cybersecurity students must complete all four of the following units:

How to Think Like a Hacker: An Anatomy of Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity Operations Management

Cybersecurity Law, Policy and Ethics

Networks and Cybersecurity Frameworks

On successful completion of this Course students will be able to:

  • Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of business concepts in diverse contexts and applications using critical thinking.
  • Apply problem solving, design and decision-making methodologies to identify and provide innovative solutions to complex problems with intellectual independence.
  • Communicate proficiently in professional practice to a variety of audiences, function as an effective member or leader of a diverse team, and use advanced tools and practices of business within project work.
  • Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, ethical conduct, professional accountability and a deep awareness of professional practices in a global and sustainable context.
  • Apply business fundamentals to the analysis, design and operation of a business model using appropriate business methods and tools, applied in a variety of contexts.
  • Reflect on and take responsibility for their own learning and self-management processes, and manage their own time and processes effectively by regularly reviewing performance as a means of managing continuing professional development and lifelong learning.
  • Apply knowledge of research principles and methods to plan and execute a piece of research with some independence as preparation for research higher degrees.

Course learning outcomes

To qualify for the award of Master of Business Administration, students must complete 150 credit points comprising of:

  • Nine (9) core units (112.5 credit points)
  • Two (2) elective units (25 credit points)

Students admitted based on successful completion of the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma of Business Administration are not required to repeat units completed.

Volume of Learning

The Master of Business Administration consists of a total of 12 units (150 credit points). Units normally carry 12.5 credit points (cps). In each year eight (8) units normally constitute a full-time load of 100 credit points and four (4) units normally constitute a part-time load of 50 credit points.

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