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Business and Technology - 5457

This Program is no longer accepting new enrolments

Program Summary

   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Typical Duration: 2 Years
 
 
Typical UOC Per Semester: 6
 
 
Min UOC Per Semester: 3
 
 
Max UOC Per Semester: 12
 
 
Min UOC For Award: 48
 
 
Award(s):
 
 
Graduate Diploma (Specialisation)
 
  

Program Description

The Graduate Diploma in Business and Technology is part of the articulated Master of Business and Technology Program. The Graduate Diploma does not accept new enrolments as it is an exit qualification. New students will enter either program 7333 or 8616, depending on whether they possess a prior tertiary degree, and can choose to graduate with the Graduate Diploma upon completion of 48 units of credit.

The MBT aims to equip managers and other professionals with the skills and knowledge to be effective in a contemporary business environment where the rapid rate of technological change and development has a significant impact on the success of the modern organisation.

Students can customise their individual program to focus on improving business management and/or technology management competencies and knowledge. A unique combination of courses provides participants with an array of intellectual tools to manage business as well as technology, and where these two aspects of management intersect.

MBT learning is enriched by a student cohort of mature-age professionals and managers who bring a diversity of experience from a wide cross section of industry. Participants benefit immediately by applying core course concepts to their workplace and experience.

The MBT is designed to be undertaken part-time in combination with full-time employment and can be studied either via distance or in face-to-face mode. Online or campus classes are in small groups of approximately 25-28 participants with a dedicated facilitator. Online classes are accessed via secure login on the Internet while campus classes run for 1.5 hours per week and are held in the evenings on weeknights.


Contact: MBT Program
Telephone: +61 2 9385 6660
Email: mbt@unsw.edu.au

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The program aims to enable participants to:

1. critically appreciate frameworks, tools and techniques which address business problems in technology-based environments, across a wide range of organisational contexts;

2. construct appropriate solutions to problems in these complex and uncertain environments;

3. improve their professional practice by drawing on previous experience, extending concepts based on new knowledge, applying solutions to the workplace and evaluating their impact;

4. enrich and improve their practice by collaborating with and drawing from people from many professional contexts;

5. actively manage change for organisational improvement and appreciate the different dimensions of change which contribute to organisational sustainability.

Program Structure

To qualify for the Graduate Diploma in Business and Technology students must successfully complete 48 units of credit (normally 8 courses of 6 units of credit each). All candidates may elect to exit the program and graduate with the Graduate Certificate after successful completion of 4 courses. Graduate Diploma students are not permitted to enrol in either or both of the two MBT capstone courses until they have successfully completed 6 courses (36 units of credit).

Academic Rules

Please refer to Program Structure for the Academic Requirements relating to this program.

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html


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