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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 MBA.
- Take part in an immersive study tour at the renowned MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, building skills in entrepreneurship and digital transformation.
- Engage in flexible study designed to accommodate your professional commitments, with classes conveniently scheduled on weeknights across a 7-week teaching period.
- Complete your MBA with a hands-on workplace project, where you’ll plan a new venture or consult for an organisation.
- Find out more at our upcoming MBA information evening event in Brisbane.
- Applications for our March 2025 intake close 9am, Monday, 3 March 2025.
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 MBA.
- Take part in an immersive study tour at the renowned MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, building skills in entrepreneurship and digital transformation.
- Engage in flexible study designed to accommodate your professional commitments, with classes conveniently scheduled on weeknights across a 7-week teaching period.
- Complete your MBA with a hands-on workplace project, where you’ll plan a new venture or consult for an organisation.
- Find out more at our upcoming MBA information evening event in Brisbane.
- Applications for our March 2025 intake close 9am, Monday, 3 March 2025.
Explore this course
QUT's MBA will teach you to challenge conventions and go beyond established pathways, equipping you to lead and manage decisively in a complex business world. As a QUT MBA student you will critically analyse business situations and develop innovative solutions to real-world cases.
Tailored with your professional commitments in mind, our classes are conveniently scheduled on weeknights outside of working hours. Through our flexible and innovative units, you will develop the skills essential to becoming a global business professional. The practical nature of this course enables you to apply concepts and management techniques learned in class directly to your workplace.
Our MBA program is designed to transform your thinking, expand your skills and open the way to confident leadership to make an impact in an ever-changing world.
Study at a globally-ranked business school
Taking your next career step can be both exhilarating and daunting. The QUT MBA gives you the confidence to elevate your career by transforming your thinking and broadening your capability set.
Tailor your MBA to your career aspirations and engage in flexible study with short teaching periods, weeknight classes (scheduled outside of working hours) and part-time learning options.
Join a university in the top 1% of business schools worldwide. QUT was the first and is one of only three Australian business schools to be awarded triple international accreditation. This means that our courses are recognised globally, allowing your career to advance wherever life takes you.
Develop your real-world skills
With practical coursework and our immersive, real-world delivery style, our MBA is designed to grow your confidence and broaden your capability. The program draws together all disciplines and arms you with the ability to analyse quickly and act decisively.
In the final stages of the program these skills are applied in a real venture or for a project with an organisation.
Discover our real-world learning.
Build your connections
Build your network by studying with like-minded peers who will challenge you with unique perspectives from a range of industries and backgrounds. You will also be taught by industry-proven business professionals who are leaders in their fields. They will inspire you to consider new ways of thinking and responding to complex problems.
Find out more about our career support.
Global learning opportunities
MIT Immersion Program
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 MBA students.
For two weeks, selected QUT students will immerse themselves into the MIT ecosystem where they will be taught by leading global academics. The immersion program focuses on leadership, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. This will equip you with the digital leadership skills to innovate and problem solve with emerging technologies.
Short-term exchanges
Study with some of the most prestigious global business schools with QUT's online short-term international exchange program. QUT MBA students have participated in exchange opportunities through Copenhagen Business School and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, amongst others.
Explore our global opportunities.
Possible careers
- Account executive
- Chief executive officer
- Chief financial officer
- Chief operating officer
- Executive project manager
- General manager
- Project manager
The MBA program is made up four components that build on each other to provide you with an integrated and multi-disciplinary curriculum to equip you to take on the challenges and opportunities of a complex business environment.
Each MBA unit of 6 credit points is delivered in a seven-week module (six weeks teaching with final assessment in week seven).
1. Building Foundations
- Strategic Management
- Communicating to Influence
- Economics in Business
- Problem Framing for Creative Action
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Marketing Strategically
- Personal Leadership and Change
- Data Analysis and Decision Making
2. Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making
- Understanding and Leading Others
- Business Law
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Management
- Contemporary Human Resources Management Issues
- Managing Technological Innovation
- Understanding Leadership and Complexity
- Corporate Governance and Accountability
3. Concentrations
Students can then add greater depth in an area of interest by choosing a concentration in Leadership and Strategy or a specific discipline pathway from within the QUT Business School's postgraduate offerings or from other schools and faculties at QUT.
Leadership and Strategy
You will be able to select 36 credit points from the following list of units:
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Investment Strategies for Technology
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Crisis Communication
- Business Process Design
- Advanced Strategy for Global Business
- Smart Decision Making: Beyond Digital and Big Data
If you complete the Leadership and Strategy concentration the title will appear on your academic transcript.
Discipline-specific concentration
Students may choose 36 credit points of MBA units and/or 36 credit points from a specific area of interest in a discipline. Discipline areas could include Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance or Healthcare.
4. Integrated Workplace Project
The final component of the MBA program is made up of one capstone unit which provides you with the opportunity to apply what you have learned in the program to real opportunities in a new venture or within an organisation.
- Integrated Workplace Project
The MBA program is made up four components that build on each other to provide you with an integrated and multi-disciplinary curriculum to equip you to take on the challenges and opportunities of a complex business environment.
Each MBA unit of 6 credit points is delivered in a seven-week module (six weeks teaching with final assessment in week seven).
1. Building Foundations
- Strategic Management
- Communicating to Influence
- Economics in Business
- Problem Framing for Creative Action
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Marketing Strategically
- Personal Leadership and Change
- Data Analysis and Decision Making
2. Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making
- Understanding and Leading Others
- Business Law
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Management
- Contemporary Human Resources Management Issues
- Managing Technological Innovation
- Understanding Leadership and Complexity
- Corporate Governance and Accountability
3. Concentrations
Students can then add greater depth in an area of interest by choosing a concentration in Leadership and Strategy or a specific discipline pathway from within the QUT Business School's postgraduate offerings or from other schools and faculties at QUT.
Leadership and Strategy
You will be able to select 36 credit points from the following list of units:
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Investment Strategies for Technology
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Crisis Communication
- Business Process Design
- Advanced Strategy for Global Business
- Smart Decision Making: Beyond Digital and Big Data
If you complete the Leadership and Strategy concentration the title will appear on your academic transcript.
Discipline-specific concentration
Students may choose 36 credit points of MBA units and/or 36 credit points from a specific area of interest in a discipline. Discipline areas could include Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance or Healthcare.
4. Integrated Workplace Project
The final component of the MBA program is made up of one capstone unit which provides you with the opportunity to apply what you have learned in the program to real opportunities in a new venture or within an organisation.
- 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: $3,186 per unit (6 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $3,570 per unit (6 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $2,946 per unit (6 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $3,306 per unit (6 credit points)
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
Laurie Cowled Indigenous Scholarship for Business Students
A scholarship for future and current Indigenous female students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate studies in business.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Indigenous Australian; Struggling financially; Women
QUT Real World International Scholarship
A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
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