About this Course

There is a growing demand for graduates skilled in a range of Information Technologies. In addition, there is worldwide demand for graduates with critical business skills and acumen to fully leverage these technical skills into profitable products and services.

This program provides a path for IT graduates seeking to move into the IT and management area. The objective is to provide theory and practical skills in accounting, financial management, marketing, operations management, e-business technologies, multimedia, programming, networking and software development.

Program Features

• Enables students to work more effectively in multidisciplinary teams
  
• Better equips students to use their IT skills to achieve organisation goals
  
• A relevant curriculum designed to meet the unique business needs
  
• Formal business and management education that enhances students’ research, report preparation, presentation and people skills
  

Subjects

Study Program

Students need to complete 16 subjects including electives as per study plan.

Core Subjects

• ICT Project 1: Analysis and Design
  
• ICT Project 2: Implementation and Commissioning
  
• E-Business Technologies
  
• Enterprise Database Systems - Oracle
  
• Advanced E-Security
  
• Advanced Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  
• The Changing Business Environment
  
• Economics for a Sustainable World
  
• Managing Strategic Resources and Operations
  
• Corporate Responsibility and Governance
  
• Marketing, Customer Engagement, Social Media and Marketing
  
• Strategic and Responsible Innovation Management
  
• Practical or Research Project
  
• Indigenous and Ethnic Entrepreneurship OR
  
• Technopreneurship: the E-entrepreneur OR
  
• Leading and Managing Organisational Change
  
• PLUS two elective subjects
  

Entry Requirements

Successful completion of study equivalent to an Australian undergraduate bachelor award.

English Requirements

• IELTS 6.0 (no component lower than 6.0)/ TOEFL iBT 79 (with minimum writing score of 19) and above; or
  
• Satisfactory completion of JCU Singapore English Language Preparatory Program (ELPP).
  
• Students who have successfully completed 2 years of full-time study in English medium may satisfy the English language requirement.
  

Advanced Standing

Advanced Standing from 4 of the Foundation subjects can be considered for:

• Applicants with a minimum 4 years full-time equivalent professional work experience in management, leadership or supervisory level in a business environment.
  
• Applicants with undergraduate degree from cognate discipline such as organisation behaviour, strategic management, marketing, economics, communication, and human resources, tourism or general management
  

Advanced standing can also be considered for:

• Applicants with a four-year relevant undergraduate program
  
• Previous tertiary study where appropriate
  

Students who do not meet the entry requirements for the MBA program may need to complete 4 bridging subjects (PQP) usually taken over 4 months. There are 2 core subjects ('Management, People and Organisations' and 'Leadership and Strategic Thinking') and 2 level 3 business subjects. The tuition fees of PQP is $8,124 for domestic students and $8,359 for international students (incl. GST).

Attendance Requirements

International students holding a valid student’s passes are required to attend at least 90% of scheduled classes per month. Failure to attend classes is a breach of the student visa conditions. Being absent from classes for a continuous period of seven days or more, or attendance falling below 90% without valid reasons will result in the student needing to surrender their Student pass for cancellation.

Domestic students must attend at least 75% of the scheduled lecture and tutorial activities to be eligible for assessment.

Career Outcome

The joint masters program prepares students for a broad range of careers in management, science or as specialist consultants.

Duration

16 months full time

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