Undergraduate · Business
Associate Degree in Management
Australian Institute of Business, Adelaide, SA, Australia
About this program
This sits below AIB's postgraduate management suite as an undergraduate-level entry qualification, aimed at people early in a management career, or moving into a first supervisory role, who want a formal credential without committing to a full three-year bachelor's degree. It's a shorter, more compact award (typically two years full-time equivalent) built around the fundamentals of business operations, people management and workplace communication rather than the deeper strategic and research content of AIB's MBA suite.
Because AIB's whole model is built around working adults studying online, the Associate Degree follows the same delivery pattern as the rest of its portfolio: case-based assignments tied to the student's own workplace, flexible pacing, and no requirement to attend campus. Graduates can generally use it as a credit-bearing pathway into AIB's Bachelor of Business Administration if they decide to keep going.
It suits someone who's stepped into a team-leader or coordinator role without formal training and wants the underlying management theory (planning, budgeting basics, communication, workplace law) to catch up with the responsibility they already carry.
Cost & duration
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Course structure
3 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Introduction to Management, Business Communication, Accounting Fundamentals, Workplace Relations
- Year 2: Marketing Principles, Operations and Supply Chain Basics, Business Ethics and Law, Leading Teams
- Structure: two-year, AQF Level 6 award
- credit-bearing pathway into AIB's Bachelor of Business Administration
Admissions
Year 12 completion or equivalent; relevant work experience considered
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