GC047 - Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
Plan: GC047OSP6 - Graduate Certificate 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 Certificate in Business Administration
Award abbreviation: GradCertBusAdmin
Total credit points: 48
Career: PGRD
Duration: 0.5 years full-time or part-time equivalent
Location: VNMRI RMIT University Vietnam
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
A future-focused Graduate Certificate in Business Administration informed by Design, Technology and Social Impact: Developing innovative and impactful emerging managers of sustainable change.
The Graduate Certificate of Business Administration is a stand-alone award that offers further learning to the Master of Business Administration or can be an early exit point for those enrolled in the Master of Business Administration. The program aims to broader 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 Certificate of Business Administration provides you the opportunity to acquire contemporary future-focused business knowledge and skills necessary to take up impactful management 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 successful, thoughtful managers 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 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 Certificate 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, leadership, marketing and financial analytics. 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.
The Graduate Certificate 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, and reflecting how you will translate your learning experiences for impact in your current and future career contexts.
As a graduate of the Graduate Certificate 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.
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.
This Graduate Certificate in Business Administration program is delivered on campus.
Pathways and Graduate Outcomes:
The Graduate Certificate 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 Certiicate 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 manage 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
Credit will be assessed consistently with the RMIT University credit policy and procedures.
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.
Top of pageEntrance requirements
Academic Entrance requirements
- An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent), or higher level qualification, in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 1.0 (out of 4.0); or
- An Australian bachelor degree or equivalent, or higher level qualification, in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution and a GMAT overall minimum score of 550.
If your qualification was completed more than 10 years ago you will need to provide evidence of ongoing professional work and/or professional development in the same discipline as the program for which you are seeking entry to be granted credit
Alternate Entry
If you do not meet the above entry requirement for the Graduate Certificate you may be considered if you have a minimum of 5 years full-time equivalent work experience. Applicants will be required to submit a curriculum vitae (CV).
Entrance requirements for international onshore applicants
All non-Australian residents and overseas full-fee paying students are required to meet RMIT English language requirements. For more information on these requirements and acceptable English Language tests please see www.rmit.edu.au/international/english-equivalent.
English Language Requirements:
For information on English Language Requirements and acceptable English Language tests please see: www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/applying-to-rmit/local-student-applications/entry-requirements/minimum- english-language-requirement.
Top of pageExternal accreditation and industry links
This Graduate Certificate 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 their 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 Certificate in Business Administration is closely linked to industry. This takes place in various forms. In the specified 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 Post Graduate Business Programs including the Master of Business Administration, which encompasses the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration Program courses providing foundation skills and knowledge. 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
RMIT Library provides extensive resources, services and study space. All RMIT students have access to scholarly resources including course related material, books, e-books, journals and databases. Computers, printers and group study rooms are available at each Melbourne Library location. You can access the Internet and Library e-resources. You can also access the RMIT University wireless network in the Library. Contact Ask the Library for assistance and further information www.rmit.edu.au/library.
Study Support is available for assistance with assignment preparation, academic writing, information literacy, referencing, maths and study skills.
Online learning tools and content
As a student in this program, you may access online learning tools and content for your program and associated courses from the student portal www.rmit.edu.au/students.
Services available to you as a student at RMIT University
RMIT University provides a wide range of resources and opportunities to assist your learning and wellbeing so you can achieve your study and career goals. Services are available face to face and online assisting with:
transition to tertiary study and learning
study skills, academic skills including literacy, mathematics and basic sciences if relevant
enabling assistance if you have a disability, long term medical condition or other form of disadvantage which may impact on your learning
career development and employment
living and wellbeing (including advice on health, housing and financial matters)
opportunities for scholarships, leadership and study abroad.
We also offer a dedicated support service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. You can find more information at www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-services/indigenous.
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