C04031v5 Executive Master of Business Administration

Overview

The Executive MBA is designed for experienced managers with considerable high-level work experience who are looking for a postgraduate degree focusing on business and leadership skills. The emphasis of the course is on integrative teaching using case studies and the inclusion of material from emerging disciplines such as e-business.

The Executive MBA is structured in such a way that students progress through the degree in a group. The cohort model is designed to foster esprit de corps and to encourage cooperative relationships with a focus on leadership and group dynamics. Students in the Executive MBA are required to undertake two core subjects in residence and are taught separately from other graduate students.

Course aims

The Executive MBA enhances expertise in strategic thinking; critical analysis; developing and implementing plans; decision making under uncertainty; understanding organisational dynamics; motivating others; effective communication; leadership; effectiveness in dynamic environments; and promoting change.

Executive MBA students develop advanced competency in a number of key disciplines, including economics, accounting, finance, marketing and human resource management.

Specific skills tailored to meet the needs of today's rapidly changing enterprises are introduced, including areas such as electronic business; finance; banking; corporate accounting; marketing; operations management; employment relations; management in the public, private and international spheres; information technology; engineering; and event, tourism, sport, arts and leisure management.

Articulation

Transfer is not permitted from any existing Graduate School of Business program to the Executive MBA. Transfer out of the Executive MBA is only permitted in extraordinary circumstances at the discretion of the Head, Graduate School of Business.

Additional admission requirements

The general admission requirements are a degree from a recognised university or equivalent institution and a minimum of six years' work experience in a senior managerial role. All applicants are interviewed as part of the selection process.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Students in the Executive MBA will not be granted exemptions for any prior studies.

Course duration and attendance

The course is expected to be completed in two years of full-time study.

Teaching is conducted in sequential, eight-week blocks. The first and last (capstone) subjects are taught in residence.

Course structure

The Executive MBA comprises 96 credit points, made up of 12 8-credit-point subjects.

Course completion requirements

Other information

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