Fast Facts
Location
Available to Australian students for inter-campus study in Singapore. Conditions apply.
Commencing
- Townsville: February, May, September
- Brisbane: February, May, September
Fees
$29,600.00^
^estimated annual tuition fee for a full-time study load
Plus Student Services and Amenities fee
Fee deferral and scholarships available if eligible
Duration
1.5 years full-time
or part-time equivalent
Entry Requirements
AQF level 7 bachelor degree in a cognate discipline; or AQF level 8 degree; or 4 year managerial experience that satisfies the course co-ordinator's requirements
Course Code
116204
Course detail
Enhance your career prospects with JCU’s Master of Business Administration (MBA). Gain an in-depth understanding of sustainable enterprise, corporate strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. JCU MBA graduates are highly sought after for their ability to analyse current practices and outcomes in a business or organisation and develop innovative methods for enhancing its enterprise and success.
JCU’s Master of Business Administration degree has a strong focus on applying and integrating sustainable economic, social and environmental business performance methods to new or existing business models. You will learn how to evaluate the context of a business or organisation and identify the appropriate performance method/s that will enhance its performance or solve a key issue within the business’s framework. You will study a broad body of theoretical and technical knowledge and gain skills in critically analysing complex contemporary business issues and making effective decisions or recommendations for improvement.
This Master of Business Administration degree has six core subjects covering a broad range of topics and will equip you to work effectively in any field of business. You can specialise your degree by choosing from nine majors, including Analytics and Business Solutions, Conflict Management and Resolution, Marketing, Finance and Management. You can also choose to undertake either a research project, or a professional internship with one of JCU’s leading industry partners. Both the research project and the internship provide extensive experience that will prepare you for your future career as well as networking opportunities that will benefit your professional development.
Advance your business career and develop the skills to lead innovative and sustainable change. JCU MBA graduates are highly valued by employers for their expert knowledge, skills, and experience, particularly in relevance to the Tropics.
Majors
Analytics and Business Solutions
Learn how to analyse large volumes of data for trends, patterns and relationships that give insight into a business’ performance, its key audiences and demographics, and the market it operates in. In this major, you’ll be equipped to manage information resources, build basic business intelligence systems, interpret business statistics and develop practical decision models. Use your analytical and decision-making skills to help businesses improve their strategic operations for increased success.
Conflict Management and Resolution
Conflict management and resolution is a key ability in many fields, including in workplaces, in legal contexts, in domestic disputes and even throughout your everyday life. Learn how to guide others through conflict to reach a positive resolution that meets the needs of each person involved. Your understanding of the different conflict management styles and the best methods for engaging in conflict resolution will prepare you to provide effective resolution services in multiple settings and contexts.
Creative Marketing
Learn how to use your creativity to strategically engage your target demographic in unique and inspiring ways that connect your audience to your brand. In this major, you’ll find out how e-strategic management, analytics and innovation can help your brand thrive in domestic and international markets. You’ll learn how to creatively engage your audience through advertisement campaigns, targeted messaging and storytelling, and customer experiences in both digital and physical spaces.
Entrepreneurship
Discover how to become an effective manager and gain the knowledge and skills you need to develop and manage a successful business. In this major, you’ll learn how to identify an idea with potential as well as how to bring that idea into reality. You will learn about the strategies and operations involved in new business ventures and how to navigate short-term goals and long-term growth for your business.
Finance
Study funds management, financial markets and risk management. You will learn the different approaches to managing financial institutions, including commercial banks, rural cooperatives and microfinance institutions.
Develop the skills to help businesses develop and thrive, whether they're government, non-government, private or not-for-profit organisations. With an understanding of international finance and sustainable economic growth, employers will value your theoretical and practical knowledge.
Global Talent Management
Gain the knowledge and skills to improve the way we work in the 21st century. The Global Talent Management major focuses on leading and managing organisational change and exploring methods for solving contemporary issues in human resource management. You’ll learn about HR analytics and decision making as well as pillars of modern global talent management such as data analysis, employee experience, tax and legal compliance, and integrated technology.
Leadership
Use your love of innovation, entrepreneurship and people-management to strengthen your employability. Learn how to lead businesses in highly competitive environments, solve complex organisational problems, plan effectively and hire the right employees. Managing finances, resources, and direct business operations with confidence in a fast-paced setting. You will learn a variety of transferable skills, important in managing a business or team in any industry.
MICE, Tourism and Hospitality
Stand out from the crowd with this major and manage tourism and hospitality attractions, events, and services. Learn about the strategies and standards of the hospitality and tourism industry as well as the key business areas of meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE).
Gain the professional expertise to manage, plan, and market the food, recreation, accommodation and tourism industry. Your in-depth understanding of hospitality will allow you to create amazing travel and event experiences while meeting target goals of generating revenue, increasing brand awareness and engaging with stakeholders.
Project Management
Learn how to harness your passion, resolve and vision to deliver groundbreaking results for business, government and the community. Develop vital skills in linear planning, leadership and management, and risk assessment in complex projects.
Be in high demand as a professional in a field equally important across disciplines, industry sectors and government both in Australia and internationally. Gain the skills and expertise to guide businesses towards success during turbulent times, contributing to the prosperity, health, safety and sustainability of tropical communities.
View the handbook for more information.
Additional information
Master’s Degree in Business Administration
An MBA, or Master of Business Administration, is one of the most practical and applicable postgraduate degrees one can pursue. And the JCU MBA at Queensland is the most applicable MBA you can find. The degree covers six main subjects that aid graduates across all their possible career paths, including marketing, human resources, finance, analytics, and more. Meanwhile, students can also specialise in one of nine different Majors, each of which focuses on a different aspect of business and enterprise. Thanks to all the material covered in this course, graduates can pursue a seemingly endless pool of varying job opportunities.
JCU has also ensured that the degree offers students plenty of networking opportunities. After all, no amount of business theory competes with knowing and impressing the right person. That’s why this MBA is a balance of learning and connecting. Your capstone project at the end of the degree can be either a research project or a professional internship. The research project would involve plenty of interviews with industry experts; it is also an opportunity to meet many of those in your chosen field beforehand. The internship, similarly, gives you practical experience and allows you to leave a positive impression on one of JCU’s industry-leading partners. In other words, this MBA will allow you to meet the right people and will ensure that you have the expert knowledge to know what you are doing when you meet them.
The Majors and the Associated Career Opportunities
- Analytics and Business Solutions: This major teaches students to gather, interpret, and apply data from sales and marketing. That includes customer demographics and trends as well as competitors’ details. Analytics majors would likely work closely with management and advertising to make data-backed decisions to improve operations.
- Conflict Management and Resolution: One major conflict is enough to hold an entire business back. Conflict resolution skills allow you to mediate and motivate all employees towards a common, satisfactory goal. Much of the course revolves around understanding people and their motivations. This major is excellent for careers in law and human resources.
- Creative Marketing: Every business has a brand; this major teaches you how to turn the abstracts of that brand into engaging and persuasive advertising. You’ll learn ad strategies, storytelling, and different marketing mediums and their strengths. This major suits students who are interested in marketing and media.
- Entrepreneurship: An excellent idea does not become a real business through magic. This major teaches students the steps in between, including how to spot potential and how to navigate the obstacles that new businesses face.
- Finance: The business that does not understand money does not make any. Finance majors learn risk management, funds management, and the ins and outs of various monetary institutions. This is an excellent choice for financial advising, which is always in high demand.
- Global Talent Management: This major offers plenty of insight into HR and good legal practice for businesses. It also teaches you how to effectively assign employees based on skills and experience.
- Leadership: Here, students learn how to thrive in a highly competitive setting. That involves choosing the right people, considering all the variables in a decision, managing resources, and planning accordingly.
- MICE, Tourism, and Hospitality: This major focuses on the highly regulated and fast-paced tourism and hospitality industries. Learn how to thrive within the health, safety, and hygiene standards of the field. Acquire strategies for managing resources and supplies within your business.
- Project Management: Every business undertakes large-scale projects involving multiple departments. This specialisation teaches students to take point on those projects and ensures they operate efficiently and punctually. This major is ideal for those who seek management and executive positions.
How to Apply for the MBA (Business Administration) at JCU in QLD
You can apply for the MBA Master of Business Administration through the JCU Online Application Portal.
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Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment,and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please review the inherent requirements for the Master of Business Administration.
JCU Master of Business Administration graduates have outstanding leadership skills and are sought after in a wide range of industries.
Graduates pursue careers in economics, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, business law, and information technology.
You could work as a management consultant, marketing manager, market research analyst, investment banker, operations manager, or financial advisor.
Handbook year | Information valid for students commencing in 2023 |
Course code | 116204 |
Course type | Masters by Coursework (AQF Level 9) |
Professional accreditation status | This program is globally accredited by the Institute of Project Management (IPM). Graduates who complete this program or the project management subjects: LB5403:03, LB5246:03, LB5245:03 and LB5247:03 are eligible to be admitted as Certified Project Officers (CPO) |
Owner | Academy |
College | Business, Law and Governance |
Award Requirements
Admission Requirements
Course pre-requisites
| The following course pre-requisites have been designed to ensure the assumed base introductory knowledge within the Accounting, Marketing and Management disciplines.
*Cognate disciplines: accounting and finance, marketing, management, commerce, human resource management, economics, tourism and hospitality or other disciplines where students will have completed study relating to organisational behaviour, business, strategy, marketing, economics, communication and people management. **Business experience: applicants must have a minimum of 4 years full-time equivalent professional work experience in a management, leadership or supervisory level in a business environment or be eligible for a member grade status of a relevant professional organisation. Students will have demonstrable effective management experience relating to organisational behaviour, business, strategy, accounting, marketing, economics, communication and people management. |
Minimum English language proficiency requirements | Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 2 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy or have successfully completed an AQF 8 qualification from James Cook University within the previous two (2) years. |
Academic Requirements for Course Completion
Credit points | 36 credit points as per course structure |
Course learning outcomes | JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics. On successful completion of the Master of Business Administration, JCU graduates will be able to:
Learning outcomes for this course are consistent with those outlined in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) for Masters level coursework programs. |
Inherent Requirements
Inherent Requirements | Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University's learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please visit: Master of Business Administration. |
Reasonable adjustments | All JCU students have the opportunity to demonstrate, with reasonable adjustments where applicable, the inherent requirements for their course. For more information please visit: Student Disability Policy and Procedure. |
Course Structure
CORE SUBJECTS
LB5203:03 Sustainable Enterprise
LB5113:03 Corporate Strategy
LB5233:03 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
CO5124:03 Data Analysis and Decision Modelling or LB5237:03 Managerial Accounting for Decision Making (Singapore students)
LB5241:03 Leadership Futures
LB5235:03 Applied Research Project or LB5520:03 Professional Project/Internship
PLUS
Select 6 credit points of subjects from List 1
PLUS
Select one of the following Options
Option 1 (General Stream)
Select 6 credit points of any level 5 subjects
PLUS
Select 6 credit points of level 5 subjects with a prefix of CO, CP, EC, LB, PL or TO
OR
Option 2 (Major)
Select a Major from Table A
List 1
LB5229:03 Economics for a Sustainable World
LB5230:03 Managing Strategic Resources and Operations
LB5231:03 Corporate Responsibility and Governance
LB5237:03 Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
LB5403:03 Project Management Principles and Foundations
TABLE A (MAJORS)
Type of major | Optional, single |
| Credit points in major | 12 credit points |
MAJOR | AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
JCU Singapore | ||
JCU Townsville External | Available in mixed attendance mode at the JCU Townsville City Campus | |
JCU Singapore | ||
JCU Brisbane JCU Singapore JCU Townsville External | ||
JCU Singapore External | ||
JCU Singapore | ||
JCU Brisbane JCU Townsville External | ||
JCU Singapore | ||
JCU Brisbane JCU Townsville External |
Location
COURSE AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
JCU Brisbane | Not all majors are available Internal or mixed-mode attendance *Students will be advised of face-to-face dates by JCU Brisbane Campus. |
JCU Singapore | Not all majors are available |
JCU Townsville | Not all majors are available |
Candidature
Expected time to complete | 1.5 years full-time or part-time equivalent (1 year full-time or part-time equivalent at JCUS) |
Maximum time to complete | 5.5 years |
Maximum leave of absence | 1 year |
Progression
Course progression requisites | Nil |
Course includes mandatory professional placement(s) | No |
Special assessment requirements | Nil |
Professional accreditation requirements | Nil |
Supplementary exam for final subject | A student who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject. However if that subject is required for accreditation, then the criteria specified by that accreditation will apply. |
Credit
Eligibility | Students may apply for a credit transfer for previous tertiary study or informal and non-formal learning in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure Credit will be granted for the following:
Note that where employment experience without qualifications, as provided for in the Admission Requirements, is used to meet entry requirements, that experience will not also be used to give credit. *Cognate disciplines: Accounting and Finance, Marketing, Management, Commerce, HRM, Economics, Tourism and Hospitality or other disciplines where students will have completed study relating to organisational behaviour, business, strategy, marketing, economics, communication and people management. |
Maximum allowed | 12 credit points |
Currency | Credit will be granted only for studies completed in the 10 years prior to the commencement of this course. |
Expiry | Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 15.5 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course. |
Other restrictions | Credit will not be granted for undergraduate studies or for work experience used to gain admission to the course when assessed separately for admission requirements. |
Award Details
Award title | MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION |
Approved abbreviation | MBA |
Inclusion of majors on testamur | Majors will appear on the testamur |
Exit with lesser award | Students who exit the course prior to completion, and have completed the relevant number of credit points and appropriate subjects, may be eligible to receive one of the following awards: Graduate Diploma of Business Administration Graduate Certificate of Conflict Management and Resolution |
Course articulation | Not applicable |
Special awards | Students may receive an Award of Recognition in accordance with the Recognition of Academic Excellence Procedure |
Estimated annual tuition fee: $AUD29,600.00
A Student Services and Amenities fee is payable per subject up to a maximum amount per year.
A variety of Scholarships are available to suit different student types.
Consult the admission requirements section in the Handbook for prerequisites and pathways into this course.
Complete an online application through our Online Application Portal.
Real stories
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Student
Eyal Azulay
Master of Business Administration
This course gives an opportunity for emerging and existing leaders to develop strategic leadership skills to achieve personal and organisational goals. The course’s various subjects challenge me to think differently and provide me with essential tools to improve my communication and collaboration.
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Alumni
Aaron Newman
Master of Business Administration
My professional development has benefited from the MBA in a number of ways, from applying new knowledge to my management role at the time to enabling me to think more strategically about the business. The lecturers connected us with emerging leaders in the business community, providing valuable network opportunities.
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Student
Vinola Rita Miranda
Master of Business Administration
When I saw JCU offered a Master of Business Administration degree where I could major in Conflict Management and Resolution I was excited as I've always wanted to be a conflict management practitioner and it complements my Bachelor of Law undergraduate degree.
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Lecturer
Associate Professor Josephine Pryce
Course Coordinator
Studying Business Administration is an important step for managers aspiring to advance their careers in a competitive labour market or to promote their own businesses. It allows for development of management skills across areas, such as people, marketing, financials, operations, innovation, entrepreneurship, and change
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Lecturer
Damian Scanlon
Manager, MBA and Business Postgraduate Programs
JCU’s MBA program focuses on students’ professional development by sharpening their critical thinking, encouraging a global outlook, embracing team work, and increasing their capacity to redesign in systems and sustainability terms. Graduates demonstrate practical leadership in complex, transdisciplinary environments.