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Study business & management online through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

PLEASE NOTE: From Study Period 4 2025, this will be open to anyone aged 16 years and over.Bachelor Degrees prepare students to develop broad and coherent knowledge and skills in a discipline for professional work and further learning corresponding to AQF level 7 qualifications.The Bachelor of Commerce is a business qualification designed to help you reach your career potential and prepare you for the changing job market. Your learning experiences will be richly interactive and industry connected, using advanced technologies that develop your decision-making and leadership skills, both of which are essential in a future marketplace.The program starts with a business foundation year, where you will explore value creation in business, learn to use financial information to make informed and responsible decisions, and develop your business intelligence and analytical capabilities to interpret data in a meaningful way.Following on from this, you’ll choose one or two major areas of business in which to specialise and gain expertise, employing learned career management theories to plan your own success.This degree will grow your international business outlook and connect you with the industry. In your final year, you’ll undertake an industry work placement or work on an applied business project, applying your entrepreneurial skills, business ideas and ‘out of the box’ thinking to a real business environment.The Business Law major provides the knowledge and skills relevant to working in business or government. It does not lead to a professional legal qualification allowing admission to practice as a solicitor or barrister, but it does meet the increasing needs of government and industry, for graduates with a background in law and business studies.

Examine how law is applied to business by understanding torts, property, trusts, trade practices, company and contract law, taxation, industrial and intellectual property law. Graduates excel in roles in both business and government.

Bachelor of Commerce (Business Law)

The Bachelor of Business equips you to tackle current and future business challenges. It further empowers you to make a positive social impact and contribute to a sustainable future. The course provides a foundation in marketing, management, economics, accounting, and finance, while also fostering your professional development to ensure you are well-prepared for your career.You will complete 8 core business subjects, and can choose from a broad array of majors and minors. You also have the opportunity to engage in an industry placement, work-integrated learning project, or an overseas student exchange.

Get set to innovate, problem-solve, and communicate like a professional. Along with a solid business foundation, in this degree you’ll learn digital business skills and get hands-on experience. Choose your major and start building your dream career.

Bachelor of Business

Advance your career with our unique MBA structure that allows you to design your own specialist qualification to suit your individual professional journey. Choose four open electives in specialist areas such as health, education, marketing, human resources or information technology. Become a well-rounded management professional with an MBA that puts ethics and sustainability at the forefront.

Design your MBA starting with a solid foundation across all business functions, then adding a specialisation including health management. Build your industry connections, engage with international partners, and learn to work ethically and sustainably.

Master of Business Administration

Project Management is a distinct professional discipline, having its own body of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques. It involves managing a project from inception to completion and the successful attainment of the project objectives. It provides the opportunity to gain the understanding, knowledge and skills necessary for performing the role of project manager. This degree adopts a generic approach to project management and is applicable to any project in industries such as construction, engineering, education, health, commerce, information technology and research and development.

Apply the principles, concepts and methodologies of project management. Gain the skills necessary to become a valued project manager in a range of industries such as construction, engineering, education, health, commerce, IT and research

Graduate Certificate in Project Management

Take the first step towards a rewarding career in lawThe Undergraduate Certificate of Business is a pathway qualification into working in the field of law. In this short, four-unit course, students will develop the analytical thinking and strategic planning skills essential to their development as a law practitioner.Students must complete one core unit and their choice of three elective units to attain this undergraduate certificate, typically requiring six months full-time study.Students who complete this undergraduate certificate and meet the minimum grade requirement will gain entry into the Bachelor of Laws. Completed units will be credited to the Bachelor of Laws or an alternate degree if preferred.

Explore core concepts in business. In just 6 months, you’ll build communication skills and start thinking strategically. Choose from marketing, management, and other electives. Gain credit for your studies and think about a future in business.

Undergraduate Certificate of Business

Gain the skills to thrive in today’s fast-paced business world. Learn to make smart, ethical decisions, manage teams effectively, and think strategically in an ever-evolving landscape.Tackle real challenges - like managing workplace disputes, driving organisational growth, and understanding what motivates people. Build hands-on experience through industry projects, including consulting for real clients.Graduate with confidence, knowing you have the leadership and problem-solving skills to make an impact.Study with one of the world’s top AACSB-accredited business schools, putting you in the top five percent globally.

Make ethical decisions and run sustainable businesses. You’ll study strategic planning, organisational behaviour, and human resource management. Get job-ready working on real business problems with peers and grow your confidence to lead the workplace.

Bachelor of Business with a Major in Management

The course is designed to provide business knowledge and skills in a selection of areas and to foster attitudes in students commensurate with successful careers as managers of organisations including private sector business organisations, not-for-profit organisations and public organisations. The course aims to provide students with a sound understanding and appreciation of the context in which organisations operate and factors that impact on the operations and viability of organisations.

In just 3 months, this online business course covers in-demand business strategies and skills. Use your professional experience to gain entry, and graduate with a business qualification. Enhance your career or start your journey towards an MBA.

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration

Build the skills and confidence to shape your career with the University of Canberra’s online Bachelor of Business.You’ll learn to think strategically, solve problems, and make informed decisions that drive success in any organisation, whether in the public, private, or not-for-profit sectors. Alongside your chosen major, you’ll develop a strong foundation in core business principles, preparing you for diverse career opportunities.This degree lets you tailor your study to match your goals by choosing from a range of majors, including:<ul><li>Accounting</li><li>Accounting and Finance</li><li>Business Economics</li><li>Government</li><li>Human Resource Management</li><li>International Business</li><li>Management</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Sports Management*</li></ul>Studying with UC connects you to industry insights and expert knowledge, helping you build skills that employers value. By graduation, you’ll have the versatility, know-how, and professional edge to make an impact wherever your ambitions take you.*Sports Management is not available online.

Develop core business skills and zoom-in on all things management. Your main focus will be managing people and services. Tackle innovation, decision making, and organisational change with confidence. Study online with a leading Australian business school.

The world is evolving, with a clear shift away from outdated business practices. Our Bachelor of Business is an alternative to more traditional business degrees, combining new skills, new values and new opportunities relevant for the new economy. It&#39;s a whole new way of thinking for a whole new generation of business professionals.The modern business practices of adaptivity, creativity, diversity and sustainable business are ingrained in this degree, so that you graduate with the skills needed for the rewarding career opportunities that the new economy brings.This degree offers you a choice of 10 majors and the opportunity to complete elective subjects.<ul><li>Human Resource Management</li><li>Management</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Innovation and Entrepreneurship</li><li>Sport Management</li><li>Logistics and Supply Chain Management</li><li>International Business</li><li>Political Science and International Relations</li><li>Contemporary Marketing</li><li>Strategic Communication (available as a second major only)</li></ul>This degree includes subjects from Griffith University and other universities through OUA.

Learn how organisations work and visualise where you fit in. Get familiar with financial documents, risk, and business comms. This business course gives you a 360-degree view of business strategy. Specialisations include marketing and management. 

The Diploma of Business (Entrepreneurship) equips you with the essential knowledge and skills for crafting and launching innovative business ventures. Gain invaluable insights from industry-leading facilitators whilst learning in simulated entrepreneurial environments.Upon completion, you will have the opportunity to continue your studies into a Bachelor of Business or one of its specialisms.Tailor your study to your lifestyle thanks to our innovative digital learning system, accessible from anywhere with 24/7 personalised support. With all your course materials online, and the option to study full or part-time, on-campus, online or a blend of both it&#39;s all about flexibility.Course duration: 1 year full time, 2 years part time.

Build a thriving start-up. Work in an innovative setting. Leverage your curiosity. With entrepreneurial business skills, the choice is yours! Explore innovation principles and learn to apply them across various settings. Create new services and products.

Diploma of Business (Entrepreneurship)

Product Management: Transform

In just two decades, digital media and the world wide web have fundamentally altered the operations of businesses around the globe. This subject gives you a strategic-level working knowledge of digital and social media marketing. The course further introduces best practices in acquiring, communicating with consumers, and retaining customers on the internet. The course examines digital technologies and their impact on, and implications for, marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, market segmentation, advertising and media planning. Students should not enrol in this course if they have previously completed 3040MKT Digital and Social Media Marketing at Griffith University.

Venture into the online marketing arena and test a variety of strategies.
Track trends in contemporary e-marketing. Oversee the development of a digital marketing plan. Consider how your approach would change on B2B and B2C online marketing campaigns.

Digital and Social Media Marketing

Get a great start to your study. In this subject you are presented with knowledge and generic skills relevant to studying at a tertiary level. The subject leads you through a staged process from submission of a brief non-academic writing task, through to completion of a researched and referenced academic essay. Along the way, you learn how to develop your formal writing skills, read and interpret academic texts and use library and internet resources to research and support academic arguments. You also learn ways to organise your time and resources, approaches to assignment writing, how to relate reference material to assigned writing, protocols of in-text referencing (Harvard/Author-Date) and techniques for compiling a bibliography. At the completion of this subject, you should be able to plan and manage your study, read and comprehend texts appropriate to undergraduate study, access and use a range of resources and recognise and apply academic conventions required for written assignments.

Commit to following the academic writing process. Cover everything from managing information to submitting your essay. Enhance your formal writing skills. Reference texts to support your arguments. Pick up techniques for compiling a bibliography.

Tertiary Learning Strategies

Students discover how the rules of contract formation and operation apply in the business world. Students learn how to understand common business contractual terms and implications to develop an appreciation of how contracts are used to allocate risk. Global, technological, social and ethical issues in relation to contracts are explored and finally, students learn about common law rules dealing with disputes and damages and how businesses resolve contractual disputes in the real world.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Sharpen your understanding of contract law principles. Learn how contracts are formed, negotiated and performed. Explore the circumstances in which a contract can be terminated. Focus particularly on the role of the contract in the business world.

Applied Contract Law

In this subject, you will collaboratively take an idea and create it into a potential business opportunity. You will assess, research, develop and create a proposed opportunity. This opportunity must currently not be on the market and could be a new product, service, process or operational improvement. By the end of this subject, you will enhance your skills in creating a venture-ready business plan and a presentation pitch to persuade relevant stakeholders.

Turn fresh ideas into real opportunities by learning how to design and plan new ventures. From the creative spark through to the pitch and beyond, you’ll gain the skills to innovate with confidence.

Organisational Creativity and Innovation

It is critical for businesses to ensure that customers are at the core of all they do and that business strategy drives and supports a Customer Experience (CX) Management approach. In this subject, you will examine the Customer Journey Map and learn why every interaction (or Touchpoint) helps businesses to better understand their customers’ perceptions, feelings, and experiences with a brand’s products and services. Through the lens of the customer, you will propose new strategies to improve the customer experience.

Discover how businesses thrive by focusing on customers. From personas to journey maps, you’ll work with practical CX tools to document the customer experience. Analyse trends. Propose strategies. Get to the heart of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Customer Experience Management

This subject will introduce you to how business operates within society. You will investigate changing external environmental forces at the micro and macro levels and how businesses are impacted by and respond to these changes. You will apply business analysis tools and techniques to categorise the impact of political, economic, sociocultural, technological, legal, and environmental factors on businesses. The themes presented in this subject will help develop your business literacy.

Explore the forces that drive change in the business world. From politics to economics, you’ll study various influences that affect the way we do business. Consider culture, technology, and the environment. Understand the bigger picture.

The Business Environment

This subject will provide foundational financial knowledge by introducing basic financial concepts and procedures that are fundamental to the generation of financial information for business decision making. Emphasising the awareness of ethical responsibilities and sustainable practices, this subject highlights use of financial information by a variety of stakeholders in planning, controlling and investing decisions. By understanding the key concepts that underpin the preparation of financial reports, you will examine, interpret financial statements, and generate financial information. Utilising various financial management concepts, you will learn the application of budgeting, costing, and capital investment techniques that support decision making.

Learn the financial basics that support smart business. Interpret reports and practice budgeting. Make ethical, sustainable business decisions. Speak the language of accountants and gain business confidence.

Accounting for Decision Making

This subject introduces the foundations of risk analysis, risk management, and contingency planning at an organisational level. The subject explores the foundations of risk across many industries and disciplines, examining the risk analysis process, contingency planning, business continuity and disaster recovery. By exploring the implications of current incidents in areas such as security, manufacturing, transportation, construction, and primary and secondary industries, you will gain insight into strategic and tactical decision making to avoid harm.

Risk and Security Management

In this subject, you will learn the core principles of sensors and sensor networks, investigating how these technologies are generating revolutionary scale change across many industries. You will acquire practical skills via simulation based learning for sensor deployment, sensor technology solutions aligned with industrial objectives, and sensor networks capable of transferring real-time data to external systems. Students will obtain the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil industry standards and solve authentic challenges in sensor network design through case studies and simulation based activities. You will develop self-awareness, initiative, and judgement while developing know how of Industry 4.0 and its potential to enhance decision making with near real time data, and drive efficiencies and innovation in industries at any scale.

Sensors and Sensor Networks

Quality management focuses on the quality of physical products as well as services and processes, and how they can be improved. The principles and processes of quality management are the key elements that businesses use to respond to market and customers’ needs and maintain business viability through improved efficiency, product quality and safety, and improvement of service delivery. Quality management is comprised of the four key components of quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. You will explore these four components and how they impact on issues such as customer focus, customer value, continuous improvement, process improvement and total quality management.

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