Master of Business (Leadership)
Postgraduate | USQ-BLD-MAS | 2024
Take businesses - and your career - to the next level
Become an ethical and adaptive leader prepped for senior roles in all industries. You’ll hone skills to lead teams and change from both the coalface and higher levels. Build your self-awareness and cognitive skills. Make effective, confident decisions.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 2 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 16
- Price from
- $32,640
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Master of Business (Leadership)
About this degree
Upon completion of the Master of Business, students will be able to:
- influence organisational adaptability by researching and designing solutions to dynamic issues and changing landscapes by applying a synthesis of established theories and complex specialist knowledge in collaborative teams
- master complex informational inputs from a variety of sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others (including organisational, cultural/societal, and environmental) and professional responsibilities are considered and addressed
- leverage and integrate the availability of digital technologies and automation relevant in the domain of specialist expertise to drive current and future business performance
- communicate specialist knowledge and expert judgements to both specialist and non-specialist audiences to build professional credibility and influence
- exercise a growth mindset using independent critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to operate as an adaptive and ethical professional
- cultivate a professional identity and career trajectory by exhibiting the human capabilities, research skills and knowledge demanded by modern organisations.
Are you driven to build relationships, lead teams and successfully take business and organisations to a new level? Specialising in Leadership within UniSQ’s Master of Business will ensure you’re equipped with the skills you need to effectively lead. Become a leader who can manage competing tensions, ambiguous demands and energise their teams. Use your skills to balance the competing tensions of organisational stakeholders, society and environment. Be adaptable and ready to solve problems. And when leadership isn’t effective, you will be able to reflect on this, develop insights and better your ongoing leadership expertise.
Recommended study pattern
The Enrolment Pattern for this program will be updated soon. In the meantime, please submit your contact details below for us to reach out and discuss the program further.
Award requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Business (after successful completion of 4 approved courses). Graduate Diploma of Business (after successful completion of 8 approved courses).As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
How to apply
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Entry requirements
Completed Bachelor Degree in business, or equivalent OR Equivalent minimum of three years professional work experience + English Language Proficiency
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Graduates of this specialisation will be prepared for careers in a range of positions, as effective leadership is crucial in all industries. You will have the skills necessary for roles from project managers, sales managers, business executives and consultants.
Career outlook
- Chief Executives and Managing Directors:
- Unknown average
- Corporate General Managers:
- Unknown average
- General Managers:
- Unknown average
- Management Consultants:
- Unknown average