Master of Business Administration

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I.    Description

The MBA course is designed for emerging career professionals with the capability and ambition to be future leaders. It provides a basic framework of analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills, and develops the critical personal and professional competencies of participants. The MBA course aims to develop graduates who are global in orientation and socially-responsible practitioners. It focuses on contemporary business and organizational challenges and provides an integrated approach to discipline-based academic content. In emphasizing the development of practice-oriented competencies, the course utilizes applied projects in each module, and engages with industry experts and practitioners at all stages. Students will undertake an international business project overseas and also have the opportunity to study abroad. Students graduate with a portfolio of completed consulting projects to demonstrate their applied skills. The MBA takes an inclusive, progressive and executive education approach to teaching and learning and uses appropriate learning technologies and platforms to that end.

II.   Learning Objectives

This course provides an innovative and industry-focused graduate program, with a strong emphasis upon professional development, business practice and social responsibility. It will suit a wide range of prospective students, primarily candidates without prior studies, in traditional business skills.

Students can complete general studies in business in this course, enabling them to tailor their unit choices to suit their own interests or needs; providing an opportunity to explore a wide variety of business disciplines or to focus unit selection to a specific area of interest. The course also offers the option of completing a specialization in vital areas of business practice such as business, ethics and society; commercialization; information technology; law and responsible business; managing human capital; marketing; project management; quantitative business analysis; risk management; supply chain management; and sustainability.

III.  Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, it is expected that students will:

• be critical and creative scholars who
  • produce innovative solutions to problems
  • apply research skills to business challenges
  • communicate effectively and perceptively
• be responsible and effective global citizens who
  • engage in an internationalized world
  • exhibit cross-cultural competence
  • demonstrate ethical values
• be able to critically analyze a broad range of business and management situations and synthesize complex information to create and develop innovative, adaptive and agile organizations
• be able to integrate and apply new knowledge to complex challenges and create opportunities for entrepreneurial enterprise through the development of strategic capability
• be able to demonstrate leadership by developing a team climate conducive to interdisciplinary creativity, problem-solving and decision-making
• be able to demonstrate knowledge of corporate social responsibility, sustainable value creation and responsible risk management
• acquire reflective skills conducive to the development of lifelong learning.

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