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.

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Course

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration

Duration: 6 months

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Location:
City

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
February
July
October

SATAC code:
2GC903

Annual indicative fees (2025):
$17,820 (Full fee paying)

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2GC903 (City)

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Duration: 6 months

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Location:
City

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
February
July
October

SATAC code: 2GD901

Annual indicative fees (2025):
$35,640 (Full fee paying)

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2GD901

Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics)

Duration: 2 years

Delivery mode:
In person
Online

Location:
City

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
February
July
October

SATAC code:
2CM904

Annual indicative fees (2025):
$35,640 (Full fee paying)

Further information on fees listed

Apply via SATAC

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
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 corporations
large private companies
public sector
market research consultancies
corporate agencies
not-for-profit organisations

What you will study

The Graduate Certificate, 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 Certificate in Business Administration (Online)

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (City)

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics) (Online)

Master of Business Administration (Business Analytics) (City)

Entry requirements

Graduate Certificate

Applicants must either:

hold a degree or equivalent qualification OR
have at least one years' experience in a related context or two years' experience in a non-related field.

Graduate Diploma

Applicants must either:

hold a degree or equivalent qualification 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.

How to apply

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Flinders students can apply to transfer to this course internally. Visit: www.flinders.edu.au/internaltransfer for more information.

Entry requirements

Applicants for the masters must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution or have completed the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.

English language requirements