MC199 - Master of Business Administration
Plan: MC199VH - Master of Business Administration
Campus: RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
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: Master of Business Administration
Award abbreviation: MBA
Total credit points: 192
Career: PGRD
Duration: 2 years full-time or part-time equivalent (or 1.5 years FT or PT equivalent with advanced standing)
Location: RMIT Vietnam, Hanoi campus
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
CRICOS code:
Top of pagePurpose of the Program
The Master of 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 you become a successful, thoughtful leader and entrepreneur who creates value for your organisations and 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.
As a future-focused business leader, the Master of Business Administration gives you a choice of majors, minors and options. You can choose on a spectrum from generalist (breadth) to specialist (depth) disciplinary knowledge for your learning. In breadth, your learning is organised in a way that provides a wide span of business discipline knowledge. If you choose more depth (majors, minors), you will focus on specific topics, which can be amplified and explored. Importantly, the Master of Business Administration also gives you the option to engage in interdisciplinary knowledge. This approach in the Master of Business Administration allows you to gain new perspectives. It recognises the diversity of business professions and that as a future focused business leader, you are likely to extend your career beyond traditional business disciplines.
The Master of 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, strategy, and the capstone course business consulting. 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.
Specialist knowhow - In addition to the core courses in the program, you can select major or minor courses to form your own optional courses. Two majors and two minors are available in the program:
- Majors include Digital Transformation and Leadership.
- Minors include Digital Transformation and Leadership.
- Professional Placement and Research courses: offering internships and Higher Degree by Research pathways.
- Choose your own flexible learning journey: choose either one major, or two minors, or one minor and a spread of remaining University electives or choose your own combination of your preferred option courses and University electives.
Capstone - The capstone course BUSM4165 Business Consulting will give you the opportunity to critically reflect on this program’s curriculum. The course promotes the integration and synthesis of the range of knowledge and skills you gained in the program and the application of these in discipline related industry linked scenarios guiding your work readiness. You will be guided by industry mentors.
Research - The core research course of this program is BUSM4006 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 Master of 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 Master of 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 Master of 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 Master of 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.
Master of Business Administration students who focus on the application of knowledge across more than one area of study, interdisciplinary, that provides a deep understanding of how businesses function, with a broader combination of courses (majors and minors) may pursue transformative roles. These deeper learnings include majors in Digital Transformation and Leadership, and minors in Digital Transformation, Leadership, may pursue transformative roles.
Mature occupations that have been transformed by data, technology and sustainability have created hybrid roles such as:
- Transformation Manager
- Ethical Sourcing/Procurement Manager
- Business Behavioralist Manager
New occupations are emerging, often as the result of disruptions and megatrends. Recently, new occupational groups have formed due to high demand for specialised and/or hybrid skills and knowledge in areas such as:
- Nanotechnology
- Big data
- Data science
- Data analysis
- Digitalisation
- AI and automation
- Sustainability, smart cities, and the green and circular economies.
Roles in these fields include:
- Transformation Manager
- Product Analyst
- Product Management
- HR Analytics Manager
- Digital Marketing Manager
- Sustainability Consultant
- Environment Social and Governance (ESG) Consultant
- Social Procurement Manager
- Ethical Sourcing/Procurement Manager
- Head of Social Licence
- Global Procurement Manager
- Data Analyst Manager
- Data Science Manager
- Data Science Consultant
- Business Behaviourist Consultant
Additionally, entrepreneurs are emerging with digital technologies that address disruptions and megatrends in areas of sustainability, waste management, circular economy, social connection and smart cities. The Master of Business Administration program also provides opportunities for you to engage with entrepreneurs developing innovative business models and technology solutions in this space of disruption and megatrends, through industry linked partnerships, providing insights to emerging entrepreneurial career opportunities.
Top of pageArticulation and pathways
GC047 Graduate Certificate in Business Administration is an entry and exit point to MC199 Master of Business Administration. GD079 Graduate Diploma in Business Administration is an exit point only to MC199 Master of Business Administration.
The below arrangements have been developed in alignment with the RMIT University Credit Policy and related procedures.
1. If you have completed the equivalent of an Australian Bachelor degree* or higher-level qualification in business (or a related discipline), you will be exempt from completing the four (4) courses (48 credit points) below:
- BUSM4000 Leadership and Management (12 credit points)
- BUSM3994 Marketing for Managers (12 credit points)
- Two (2) MBA Option Courses / University Electives (24 credit points)
You must complete an additional twelve (12) courses (144 credit points) to qualify for the degree.
2. If you have completed the equivalent of an Australian Bachelor degree* or higher-level qualification in any discipline and have the equivalent of two or more years in full-time work experience, you will be exempt from completing the four (4) courses (48 credit points) below:
- BUSM4000 Leadership and Management (12 credit points)
- BUSM3994 Marketing for Managers (12 credit points)
- Two (2) MBA Option Courses / University Electives (24 credit points)
You must complete an additional twelve (12) courses (144 credit points) to qualify for the degree.
3. If you have completed the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Business Administration*, you will be exempt from completing the four (4) courses (48 credit points) below:
- BUSM4755 Design Thinking for Business (12 credit points)
- BUSM4000 Leadership and Management (12 credit points)
- BUSM3994 Marketing for Managers (12 credit points)
- BUSM4156 Financial Analytics for Managerial Decisions (12 credit points)
You must complete an additional twelve (12) courses (144 credit points) to qualify for the degree.
4. If you have completed any other cognate RMIT Graduate Certificate*, you will be exempt four (4) courses (48 credits points) which may count towards your MBA Options and/or University Electives, or the four (4) courses (48 credit points) below:
- BUSM4000 Leadership and Management (12 credit points)
- BUSM3994 Marketing for Managers (12 credit points)
- Two (2) MBA Option Courses / University Electives (24 credit points)
You must complete an additional twelve (12) courses (144 credit points) to qualify for the degree.
*Refer to the Credit Procedure - Masters Advanced Standing Credit Procedure for additional information regarding the recency of previous qualifications.
Credit for prior study or experience
Credit outside of the above arrangements will be assessed consistently with the RMIT University credit policy and procedures. If you wish to apply for a credit transfer/ recognition of prior learning (RPL), please refer to Credit for prior study or experience. The Master of Business Administration does recognise prior experience based on meeting criteria aligned with these guidelines.
Top of pageEntrance requirements
Academic Entrance requirements
Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent or higher-level qualification in any discipline with a GPA of 1.0 (out of 4.0);
OR
Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent or higher-level qualification in any discipline and a GMAT overall minimum score of 550.
OR
Successful completion of the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
OR
If you have not completed an undergraduate qualification and you wish to apply under recognition of experience, you will need to apply through the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Business Administration as a pathway program into the Master of Business Administration.
English Language Requirements:
For information on English Language Requirements and acceptable English Language tests please see: www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/
Top of pageExternal accreditation and industry links
This Master of 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] |
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Industry Links:
The Master of Business Administration is closely linked to industry. This takes place in various forms. In the core curriculum three 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 Master of 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 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 http://www.rmit.edu.vn/students
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