GD079 - Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Plan: GD079OSP6 - Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Campus: RMIT University Vietnam
Overview
Program detailsPurpose of the ProgramArticulation and pathwaysEntrance requirementsExternal accreditation and industry linksStudent expenses and charges in addition to feesLibrary, IT and specialist resourcesProgram details
Award title: Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Award abbreviation: GradDipBA
Total credit points: 96
Career: PGRD
Duration: 1 year full-time or part-time equivalent
Location: Vietnam campus, Saigon South
Owning school: Graduate School of Business and Law (660H)
Owning school URL: www.rmit.edu.au/about/schools-colleges/graduate-school-of-business-and-law
ASCED code: 080301
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Top of pagePurpose of the Program
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is an early exit point for those enrolled in the MC199 Master of Business Administration (MBA). The program aims to broaden knowledge and skills for students entering with a qualification in an unrelated discipline, while students from a related discipline will deepen their existing knowledge and skills.
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration provides you the opportunity to acquire contemporary future-focused business knowledge and skills necessary to take up impactful leadership roles in an increasingly complex, digital and uncertain world. You will be empowered with the right expertise and mindsets to create a positive impact on society and drive business as a force for good. The curriculum is designed to help students become successful, thoughtful leaders and entrepreneurs who create value for their organisations and their communities.
This program has distinctive authentic, active and applied learning styles, and imbues knowledge and skills, which will enable you to manage and lead sustainable change within organisations and make impactful decisions in an unpredictable business environment. You will experience deep industry linked engagement for authentic and applied learning in designated industry connected work integrated learning (WIL) courses with opportunities to contribute to meaningful social impact.
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration includes key curriculum features to support your learning and attainment of graduate attributes:
· Core business administration fundamentals - The core curriculum includes design thinking, marketing, leadership, financial analytics, and strategy. These courses provide you with the fundamental skills, knowledge and capability, to enable future-focused transformative change within contemporary business settings.
· Industry linked partnerships – Industry is embedded in the program throughout courses in various ways, including work integrated learning projects, mentoring, case studies, thought leadership, guest speakers and serious games, to ensure practice-based learning on real-world problems to optimise graduate attributes for career outcomes.
· Research - The core research course of this program is BUSM3256 Strategy. This course is designed to develop your knowledge of research principles and methods and how to apply them in the context of strategy formation within the contemporary business environment. You will have the opportunity to conduct a research project/proposal and further develop your skills in research methodology.
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration program provides you with a range of stimulating learning experiences, (authentic learning, activity-based learning and applied learning), which will allow you to apply management theories and concepts across a range of contemporary, transformative, and future-focused organisational contexts. You will be involved in a variety of learning activities, within a blended learning approach which include role plays, seminars, discussions, individual and team presentations, team activities, preparing business reports, preparing and presenting business consulting projects and reflecting how you will translate your learning experiences for impact in your current and future career contexts.
As a graduate of the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration you will obtain many transferable knowledge and skills to equip you for leading and managing transformative change within organisations contexts.
Skills extend beyond simply enterprise and human skills, to also include:
· Self awareness – values, motivators, interest, strengths, familiar and unfamiliar roles and industries of interest.
· Local and global mindsets - eastern and western approaches to knowledge, intercultural, working across borders.
· Digital World – business and future technologies, digital literacy, the role of humans as decision makers in a digitalised future.
· Social awareness and stakeholder perspectives – social impact, economic futures, sustainability, human well-being, diversity and inclusion.
· Network building – connections among likeminded future leaders and industry linked partnerships.
This program provides you with authentic and applied learning and the development of knowledge and skills to have meaningful impact when addressing real world issues in transformative business settings.
The delivery of this program is blended comprising of face-to-face and online learning.
Pathways and Graduate Outcomes:
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is a generalist post graduate degree which offers a pathway to success in business in a wide area of professional work in global contexts, whether you are a recent graduate with limited work experience, or an emerging manager or entrepreneur.
As a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration graduate, you can expect career opportunities within a wide cross section of industries and organisations, across private enterprise, management consulting, the public sector and the not-for-profit sector, to lead transformative change in response to the evolving nature of the economy, society and the environment, and their effect on business activity, decision making and investment.
Top of pageArticulation and pathways
GD079 Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is an exit point for MC199 Master of Business Administration.
Students who successfully complete the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Business Administration will be required to complete four (4) courses (48 credit points) within MC199 Master in Business Administration in order to qualify to exit with the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Credit will be assessed consistently with the RMIT University credit policy and procedures.
For more information please refer to the Admission and Credit Policy.
Top of pageEntrance requirements
GD079 Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is an exit award only for the Master of Business Administration. It is available to students upon successful completion of the eight (8) courses (96 credit points) specified in the program structure.
Entry into this program is via the MC199EXVRI Master of Business Administration.
Top of pageExternal accreditation and industry links
This Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is not accredited by a professional body.
However, some professional bodies offer qualification recognition post-graduation on a case by case basis. You should contact the professional body of interest directly to seek advice on recognition of your degree.
The table below lists the professional bodies who may offer membership to you (students and/or graduates) as a career enabler which could include opportunities for networking and access to discipline specific resources. Application for membership is your responsibility.
Professional Body |
Membership and Opportunities |
|---|---|
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Institute of Managers and Leaders [IML] |
-You may be eligible for membership category: Affiliate, member or Associate Fellow [depending on experience] -After graduating, you may be eligible for membership category: Affiliate, Member or Associate Fellow [depending on experience] |
Industry Links:
The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is closely linked to industry. This takes place in various forms. In the core curriculum two courses are designated as ‘work integrated learning’ (WIL) courses involving discipline related industry projects as part of your authentic and applied industry partnered learning experiences. Other forms of industry partnered learning across the program form part of your authentic learning experience including case studies, guest speakers, thought leaders and mentors.
Guiding the development of the College of Business and Law, are Industry Advisory Committees of high-profile executives. The Graduate School of Business and Law has a dedicated Industry Advisory Committee for the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. The role of the Industry Advisory Committee is to ensure the Graduate School of Business and Law’s links with industry standards and practices remain current. The Industry Advisory Committee also provides feedback on the currency of our programs, the changing needs of Industry and has input into the design of new programs. The committee represents diverse and contemporary industry perspectives.
Top of pageStudent expenses and charges in addition to fees
Once you are enrolled as a student in this program you will need to allow for expenses other than university tuition fees. Additional expenses may relate to the purchase of lecture notes, textbooks, stationery, consumables such as printer paper, fees levied by commercial internet service providers for internet access outside of the university campus, and other relevant costs.
Top of pageLibrary, IT and specialist resources
As a student enrolled in a program at RMIT University Vietnam you can access the services, facilities and study space provided by the RMIT Vietnam Library: http://library.rmit.edu.vn/.
You can also access the extensive collections of electronic resources and online services provided by RMIT University Library. Resources include databases, e-books, electronic journals and newspapers. Assistance is available via the Ask the Library chat service. Find more information on Library resources and services at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library
Learning services available to you as a student
RMIT University Vietnam provides the following resources and opportunities to assist your learning and wellbeing for your study and career goals. Services available include:
- transition to tertiary student learning
- study skills, academic skills including academic literacy, writing for academic purposes, research, exam preparation and much more
- career development and employment
- living and wellbeing (including advice on health and personal matters)
- opportunities for scholarships, leadership and study abroad
- opportunities for participating in community engagement, arts, sport, recreation, fitness activities as well as student activism and university governance.
You can find more information at www.rmit.edu.vn/students
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