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- Study at a leading business school. We're Australia’s first business school to earn the triple crown accreditation. Less than 1% of all business schools globally have achieved triple accreditation, and we're proud to be part of this distinguished group.
- Explore our range of new scholarships, designed to support future leaders from diverse backgrounds in gaining their Executive MBA.
- Our unique EMBA program is offered in both Brisbane and Canberra.
- Tailored for busy executives, coursework is delivered through intensive weekend classes held monthly (Brisbane) and bi-monthly (Canberra) over an 8-week teaching period
- Participate in an international study tour to MIT in Boston or Europe, where you will develop essential capabilities around entrepreneurship and digital transformation and the leadership of complex projects.
- Work with your leadership coach to establish clear goals for your career path and personal life.
- Undertake a leadership practicum, shadowing a senior executive from industry, commerce or government in the second year of your program.
- Applications for the Canberra January 2025 intake, close at 9am on Monday, 9 December 2024.
- Applications for the Brisbane January 2025 intake close at 9am on Monday, 16 December 2024.
- Find out more at our upcoming Executive MBA information evening event in Brisbane and Canberra.
Highlights
- Study at a leading business school. We're Australia’s first business school to earn the triple crown accreditation. Less than 1% of all business schools globally have achieved triple accreditation, and we're proud to be part of this distinguished group.
- Explore our range of new scholarships, designed to support future leaders from diverse backgrounds in gaining their Executive MBA.
- Our unique EMBA program is offered in both Brisbane and Canberra.
- Tailored for busy executives, coursework is delivered through intensive weekend classes held monthly (Brisbane) and bi-monthly (Canberra) over an 8-week teaching period
- Participate in an international study tour to MIT in Boston or Europe, where you will develop essential capabilities around entrepreneurship and digital transformation and the leadership of complex projects.
- Work with your leadership coach to establish clear goals for your career path and personal life.
- Undertake a leadership practicum, shadowing a senior executive from industry, commerce or government in the second year of your program.
- Applications for the Canberra January 2025 intake, close at 9am on Monday, 9 December 2024.
- Applications for the Brisbane January 2025 intake close at 9am on Monday, 16 December 2024.
- Find out more at our upcoming Executive MBA information evening event in Brisbane and Canberra.
Why choose this course?
Our Executive MBA has been designed to build your influence and elevate your leadership. Delivered in Brisbane and Canberra, with annual intakes in January, we can help you excel wherever you are.
The QUT Executive MBA will allow you to accelerate your leadership journey and reach new career and personal achievements. Learning from leading academics, being challenged by global companies, and collaborating with high-achieving peers sets our alumni apart. From the start of the program you are given a choice between two distinct pathways:
- international leadership
- complex program leadership and strategic procurement.
The concept of ‘knowing one’s self’ lies at the forefront of the program, facilitating the development of a deep understanding of personal goals and leadership traits.
In addition to self-realisation and leadership, the unique model for this Executive MBA program integrates fundamental units with more advanced elements that include organisational transformation, entrepreneurship, governance and corporate accountability.
The program culminates in an international study tour to one of the world's best universities, MIT, or to Europe, undertaking a deep dive with some of the world's largest companies including Airbus and Pilatus, and honing your abilities to meet the demands of a quickly changing globalised digital economy.
Explore this course
QUT's Executive MBA is different to a conventional MBA. It's designed for executives with at least 10 years of industry experience with a desire to hone their leadership skills and share the journey with an elite cohort.
Everyone is assigned their own leadership coach and executive advisor. Course work is contained to weekends. And the Executive MBA takes the idea of real world to the next level with our international study tour at the heart of your learning experience.
Concentrated learnings
Specialise in international leadership or complex program leadership and strategic procurement as part of your Executive MBA.
International leadership
Delve into global business, stakeholder engagement and entrepreneurship with the international leadership stream. Connect with leading universities on the study tour and deep dive with some of the world's best companies. This stream will specialise your skills in stakeholder engagement, international business, and entrepreneurship.
Complex program leadership and strategic procurement
Develop the capability to lead in complicated environments by connecting with some of the world's most difficult projects as part of the complex program leadership and strategic procurement stream. Choosing this stream will hone your knowledge in project implementation, risk management, and strategic global contracting.
Integrated workplace project
QUT is all about real-world learning. That's why the final component of your Executive MBA is a capstone unit that gives you the opportunity to apply what you have learnt in a new venture or organisation.
The aim of the workplace project is to enable students to apply learning from the program to address a complex work-based problem or a new or emerging business opportunity of interest to the student, their employer or a sponsoring organisation.
Discover our real-world learning.
Global opportunities
The unique model for our Executive MBA integrates fundamental units with more advanced elements as well as the opportunity to specialise in either international leadership or complex program leadership and strategic procurement, both culminating in an international study tour.
Explore our global opportunities.
Complex Project Alignment and Implementation Study Tour
The Complex Program Leadership and Strategic Procurement Study Tour features a bespoke engagement with some of the world's biggest and most complicated projects.
You'll learn how global organisations such as Airbus and Pilatus manage large and difficult projects within and across complex environments.
These perspectives aren't just limited to engineering or technical functions, but also embrace the social, cultural, and political dimensions that inform practices, relationships and expectations across international supply chains.
MIT Immersion Program
The international leadership stream features a visit to one of the world's best universities, MIT. You'll learn about leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analytics to drive organisational transformation in the face of digital disruption.
In an Australian-first initiative, MIT Sloan School of Management and QUT Business School are collaborating, with a focus on an innovative immersion program for QUT Executive MBA and MBA students.
Leadership coaching and mentoring
As you work your way through the QUT Executive MBA, you'll have a leadership coach every step of the way to guide you.
During the first half of the program, you will be allocated an executive coach to provide feedback on leadership style, advice on effective managerial techniques and help with course work.
In the second half of the program, you will be paired with an executive advisor who is a current executive or board member. They will meet monthly with you to explore leadership, decision-making and governance.
Find out more about our career support.
Possible careers
- Chief executive officer
- Chief operating officer
- Director
The EMBA is structured into four components:
- The Building Foundations component provides foundation business knowledge and skills along with the opportunity to engage in personal leadership development.
- The Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making component provides you with a broad spectrum of knowledge and skills on business disciplines to equip you to make holistic and multi-disciplinary decisions in complex environments.
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In the third component of the EMBA program you are able to choose a concentration from: International Leadership and Complex Program Leadership or Strategic Procurement
- The final component of the EMBA program is the completion of a Workplace Project.
Delivery and timing
The Executive MBA program commences in Brisbane in January of each year. Classes are scheduled once every four weeks over a long weekend from Friday to Sunday with the inclusion of a two-week international study tour.
The Executive MBA commences in Canberra in January. The delivery will focus on an eight week cycle, with class sessions taking place every eight weeks supported by online learning and facilitation for the remainder of the cycle.
These intensive sessions allow participants to schedule dedicated time to study with minimal interference to their business commitments.
Course components
Building Foundations
- Strategic Management
- Communicating to Influence
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Economics in Business
- Problem Framing for Creative Action
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Personal Leadership and Change
- Data Analysis and Decision Making
Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making
- Marketing Strategically
- Understanding and Leading Others
- Business Law
- Financial Management
- Business Leadership Practicum
- Managing Technological Innovation
- Global Leadership and Complexity
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Corporate Governance and Accountability
Concentration Options
1. International Leadership
- Contemporary Human Resource Management Issues: Global Perspectives
- Conducting Business Internationally
- Advanced Strategy for Global Business
- Strategic Decision Making: Beyond Digital and Big Data
- Crisis Communication
2. Complex Program Leadership and Strategic Procurement
- Sourcing and Contracting Strategies in a Global Environment
- Strategic Leadership of Supplier Relationships
- Strategically Managing Risk
- Intellectual Property Strategy and Management
- Complex Program Alignment and Implementation
Workplace Project
- Integrated Workplace Project
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: $3,798 per unit (6 credit points)
This course includes a two-week international study tour. The cost is:
- $8,500 (approximate) for the international leadership study tour
- $10,000 (approximate) for the complex program leadership study tour.
This includes all in-country transportation, accommodation, company and site visits, and most meals.
2025 fees
2024 fees
2024: $3,516 per unit (6 credit points)
This course includes a two-week international study tour. The cost is:
- $8,500 (approximate) for the international leadership study tour
- $10,000 (approximate) for the complex program leadership study tour.
This includes all in-country transportation, accommodation, company and site visits, and most meals.
Fees
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
FEE-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a FEE-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
MBA and EMBA Scholarships
We offer a range of scholarships to support students in their MBA and Executive MBA journey.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Indigenous Australian; Struggling financially; From regional, rural or remote areas; Sporting excellence; Women
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