Graduate · Business
Master of Business Administration
Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
About this program
Bond was Australia's first university to run a genuine three-semester-a-year academic calendar, and the MBA is where that timetable shows up most sharply: the full 12-subject generalist program can be completed in one year and four months of continuous study, roughly half the time a traditional two-semester MBA takes to deliver a comparable subject load. The first trimester front-loads eight core functional subjects delivered as intensive-mode bootcamps (compressed, immersive blocks rather than subjects spread thin across a normal semester) before students move into a business engineering component and then electives where they can build a specialisation.
Because Bond charges the same tuition to domestic and international students, cohorts are unusually mixed for an Australian MBA, and the accelerated calendar tends to attract candidates who want to return to the workforce, or start a venture, without a multi-year career gap. Students who want workplace exposure alongside the degree can take the MBA (Professional) variant, which follows the same subject structure with an additional 20-week professional placement component built in.
Cost & duration
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Course structure
5 terms of coursework
- Trimester 1: 8 core functional bootcamps delivered in intensive mode (Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Organisational Behaviour, Operations, Strategy, Business Analytics)
Trimester 2: Business engineering component
- integrated, project-based subjects connecting the core disciplines
- Trimester 3: Electives, including the option to build a specialisation, plus a capstone strategy project
- Optional MBA (Professional) pathway: same 12-subject structure plus an additional 20-week supervised professional placement
- Total: 12 subjects, completed in as little as 1 year 4 months full-time
Admissions
A completed bachelor's degree plus relevant professional work experience (typically 2+ years recommended, though not always mandatory).
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