Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics)

Overview

The Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics) provides a comprehensive foundation in core business principles, with a specialisation in data. In this course, industries 4.0 and 5.0 will come to life beyond the concepts.

The MBA (Business Analytics) is designed for the future, with sustainability built in. You will learn how to take advantage of technology to test and understand customer motivations, track the path to purchase, shape emerging market niches and improve an organisation’s business growth sustainably. This MBA course has industry engagement embedded, with a total of up to 36 weeks of experience available through Work Integrated Learning and industry programs.

Data is probably one of the most important assets in business today, with ninety-four per cent of companies saying data and analytics are vital to their business growth strategies. (Source: 2020 Global State of Enterprise Analytics, MicroStrategy 2020) The MBA (Business Analytics) will give you advanced leadership skills combined with how to leverage big data in the business context.

Course

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Duration: 1 year

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
February
July
October

Annual indicative fees (2024):
$35,700 (Full fee paying)

Further information on fees listed

Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics)

Duration: 2 years

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
March
July
October

Annual indicative fees (2024):
$35,700 (Full fee paying)

Further information on fees listed

What you will study

Entry requirements

How to apply

Your career

Take charge of your global business career, learn how to make data-driven decisions, use data and privacy, industry 4.0 and industry 5.0, and use business data analytic programs. The MBA (Business Analytics) prepares you for a wide range of career opportunities in areas including management consulting, business acquisition, strategy and leadership.

Potential occupations include: marketing director

marketing director
chief robotics officer
business analyst
software architect
artificial intelligence architect
in-world marketing architect
loyalty engineer
chief operating officer
program director
marketing manager
machine and people ethics manager
senior business development manager.

Potential employers include: multinational

multinational corporations
large private companies
public sector
market research consultancies
corporate agencies
Not-for-profit organisations.

What you will study

The Graduate Diploma and MBA courses provide a structured pathway containing 16 topics. There is flexibility in the course but generally students undertake 8 business and management core topics, four elective topics and four core topics relevant to business analytics.

First year (and the Graduate Diploma) contains study in human resource management, marketing, economics, finance, ethics, sustainability, and the law. Second year introduces data analysis, digital marketing and analytics.

You can also choose an industry placement instead of one core topic. And you could also extend your industry exposure by electing to undertake an industry entrepreneurial program: FOMENT (a wine, viticulture and tourism program), or the IMA (Innovative Manufacturing Accelerator).

You will also undertake a major industry project which will bring together everything you have learnt over the course and put it into practice.

View the program of study

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics)

Entry requirements

Graduate Diploma

Applicants must either:

hold a degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution OR
hold the Flinders University Graduate Certificate in Business Administration.

Master

Applicants must either hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification; or hold the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Flinders University or equivalent qualification.

Application requirements

Applicants must provide an electronic copy of either their original or certified copy of their Official Academic Transcript for all qualifications relevant to their application.

Unofficial academic transcripts, statement of results, exam slips, screen shots of grades, AHEGS etc. will not be accepted.

If academic transcripts are in a language other than English, applicants must submit copies of both the original documents and full translations. Translations must show results for all subjects undertaken and be certified by an independent accredited translator. It is an applicant’s responsibility to comply with requests to provide further documentation, either in the original language or English translation.

Flinders graduates of a Bachelor degree or Flinders students currently completing their Bachelor degree at Flinders are not required to provide a copy of their official transcript for their Flinders course.

An application can be made for up to 3 courses in order of preference. You will be assessed for entry to the course you are eligible for as per your preferences.

Applicants must provide details of their professional work experience in their application.