Graduate · Business
Master of Business Administration
Southern Cross University, Lismore/Gold Coast/Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
About this program
SCU's MBA is built around a single specialisation choice rather than a menu of electives: most students take Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, reflecting where the university has clearly decided to place its bet on what differentiates the degree from a generic MBA. Students who'd rather keep things broad can swap the specialisation for two additional elective units instead, trading depth in one area for a wider spread across leadership and management topics.
The capstone is an industry research project tied to the student's own workplace or a career direction they're moving toward, rather than a generic case-study exam, which means the final deliverable doubles as a portfolio piece for job applications or internal promotion cases. Like the rest of SCU's postgraduate suite, the MBA runs on six-week study blocks, letting full-time-equivalent students who study continuously finish faster than the traditional two-year MBA timeline.
An online-only Managing and Leading People variant exists as a separate, more HR-focused version of the degree for students who know upfront that people management rather than analytics is their priority.
Cost & duration
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Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Core units: Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Strategic Management, Managerial Finance, Marketing Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Economics for Managers, Business Ethics and Governance, plus foundation units for non-business-background entrants
- Specialisation: Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (or 2 elective units in place of the specialisation)
- Capstone: Industry Research Project, tied to the student's current or target workplace
- Delivered in six-week teaching blocks
- full course length varies with prior credit and specialisation choice
Admissions
Bachelor's degree plus professional work experience preferred
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