Course overview
If you’re looking for a practical and industry-focused MBA experience, which bridges the gap between academic learning and industry needs, then you’ve found it. By working on real projects with our industry partners, you’ll gain unprecedented insight into real business challenges of today and the practical skillset to tackle these challenges head-on.
Through the project-based curriculum, you’ll apply everything you learn to real-world situations and legitimate business challenges. By immersing yourself in these challenges, and working with student teams and industry partners to secure real outcomes, you’ll develop the skills to adapt, innovate and deliver.
Job outcomes
- CEO
- Business Owner
- Executive Director
- Consultant
- General Manager
- Change Project Manager
- Director
- Manager
What you'll learn
Define – Project request for service
Address a current challenge faced by an industry partner. Working collaboratively, you’ll gain an understanding of the challenges faced by the organisation and the key services required to provide solutions and deliver real shareholder value.
Research – MBA content divisions
Draw upon leading academic journals, the Ducere Global Leaders Faculty, and the expertise of your mentors to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key academic themes. You’ll develop strong management thinking, and the skills to complete sophisticated market research.
Apply – Project group deliverables
Work closely with the industry partner to produce project deliverables that address the challenges impacting company bottom lines. Your ability to work in teams, engage with industry and demonstrate leadership and strategic vision is key to project success. Group deliverables, incorporating industry partner feedback, account for 25% of your assessment.
Demonstrate – Individual portfolio
Demonstrate your achievement by linking project deliverables to rigorous engagement with key management concepts and leading industry theory. This is done through an individual portfolio of academic assignments that are submitted to and assessed by leading university academics. The individual portfolio accounts for 75% of your assessment.
Record – Learning and development matrix
Use the matrix as both a record of achievement and a plan to drive progression across the breadth and depth of the MBA course. The matrix acts as a guide to your development from learner, to manager, to leader, on your path to graduation.
Study method
- OnlineOnline delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
- BlendedBlended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
- In-classIn class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
Duration study load
- Full-time: 15 months
- Part-time: 3 years
Entry requirements
- Cognate undergraduate degree
- 3 years post-degree professional experience
- Completion of Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
Course features
- Integrated Online Support from industry experts
- Complete your MBA at your own pace
- Dynamic insights from global leaders, CEO’s and business innovators
- An internationally recognised degree with financial support available
Assessment
- Project Deliverables
- Academic Assignments
- Reflective Assignments
Testimonials
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Nada Trochilas"...The most valuable part of the Ducere MBA is that you can use what you learn in your day to day life, work and career decision making. I highly recommend undertaking your MBA through Ducere for the support, guidance and ownership of your learning that I feel is simply unmatched by other courses"
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Tegan Kop"The experience that I got in three different types of big organizations, resulted in a promotion and a brand new job for me before I even graduated."
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Paul Bow"I’ve been in business for 17 years, and I learnt something every time I turned a page"
Delivery
- Fully online
- No exams
- No campus attendance required
Subjects
About Ducere Global Business School
Ducere is a social enterprise that delivers pioneering education initiatives in Australia, Africa and the UK. Higher education programs delivered by the Ducere Global Business School fund the groundbreaking publishing, school development and mentorship work of the Ducere Foundation, providing unique learning and leadership opportunities in 21 African nations.
As part of the Ducere group, the Ducere Global Business School is an online education provider. We partner with established universities in delivering internationally recognised qualifications. As well as partnering with exceptional universities, we partner with innovative organisations, businesses and global leaders to be the most student-focused and industry-relevant business school in Australia. In fact, we were named a finalist in the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards 2017 for Industry Engagement.
In Latin, the word Ducere means ‘to lead’ or ‘to guide’. We believe that leadership and education are fundamentally connected and that today’s students are best served by higher education that is flexible, practical, industry-relevant and innovation-focused. We believe that by bridging the gap between real industry leadership and rigorous academic guidance, we, along with our partners are delivering unique enterprise skills for the 21st-century innovation economy.
