Master of Business Administration

The Victoria Graduate School of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne offers both flexibility and convenience. IT is dedicated to helping students succeed in their education and career advancement. The school combines its academic excellence with practical learning through a close relationship with the business industry.

The School has a unique vision, mission, and strategy for its students, aiming to be open and excellent, and to create fantastic value for students of all backgrounds. It promises to achieve this by providing high quality, engaging career-based education with flexible entry, appropriate pathways for study, an engaging but rigorous curriculum, and ensuring that all students are supported to meet the standards of the school. The school also promises to undertake high quality and innovative research, which results in smarter, sustainable, and healthier communities, in both Melbourne and beyond.

International engagement is a key focus for the university, and by 2020 the university wants to reach a set of goals in this regard. These include to be recognized around the world for its transnational education delivery, to be recognized for its education of students from diverse countries, cultures, and education backgrounds, recognized for its engagement with industries and for its ambitious research and knowledge.

The full-time MBA at the Victoria Graduate School of Business is an 18-month program. The MBA does not assume students will have prior knowledge in business or management, and so covers a broad range of subjects that will give them a solid knowledge base of business administration.

The program has a number of course objectives for its MBA students. These include, that on successful completion of the course, students should be able to critically reflect upon theoretical approaches; justify and interpret theoretical propositions and critically evaluate the resolution of business problems; use cross disciplinary knowledge to inform their decisions; and demonstrate accountability in autonomous and collaborative judgments.

The program includes capstone units, elective units, a research proposal unit, and a minor thesis unit. It focuses on a number of disciplines, such as ethics and sustainability, leadership and strategy, enterprise resource planning systems, accounting and finance, human resource management and industrial relations, information systems, marketing, logistics and supply chain management, sport business, and innovation, knowledge and change management.

Australian graduates of the MBA program at the Victoria Graduate School of Business earn some of highest MBA compensation in the world (salary plus bonus) in the world, an average of A$115,600 (US$87,737).

The school has links with Certified Practicing Accountants, the Governance Institute of Australia, the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and the Graduate Management Association of Australia. These links firmly help students in the transition to employment.

Companies that have hired graduates from Victoria University include Berkley Capital Partners, City West Water, Crown Melbourne, Fair Work Australia, Linfox, Rob Stary Lawyers, SAP, and Westjustice community legal aid.