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Master of Business (Leadership)
PostgraduateUSQ-BLD-MAS2025
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
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
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
MGT5100 Harnessing Human Capabilities for the Future of Work
MGT5102 Strategy, Innovation and Business Research
FIN5100 Data and Decision Making
MGT6606 The Ready Business Professional
MGT5101 Adaptive Leadership
MKT5001 Service Experience
MGT5103 Talent Strategy
ECO5000 Managerial Economics
MGT6133 Leading Organisational Change
MGT6138 Leading Leaders
MGT6137 Leading Successful Teams
MGT6147 The Leader’s Mind
4 x ElectivesAward requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Diploma of Business, Graduate Certificate of Business.
Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $32,646
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
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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- QS World University Ranking 2025, within Australia:
- 24
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2025, within Australia:
- 25
Entry requirements
- Completion of an approved Bachelor degree in the area of business, or equivalent, or equivalent minimum of three years professional work experience (at ANZSCO Skill Level 1-3). Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- 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
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
| Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
| Chief Executives and Managing Directors | N/A^ | Up 10.8% |
| Corporate General Managers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
| General Managers | N/A^ | Up 59.7% |
| Management Consultants | N/A^ | N/A^ |
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