How to customise the UQ MBA to suit your goals

The UQ MBA has long been one of the most flexible Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs, offering students different options when it comes to when, where and how they study. Our responsive program design enables students to customise their learning experience with enhanced choice and flexibility built into the program.

Here’s what you’ll study in the UQ MBA and how to tailor the program to gain maximum value and meet your career and professional development needs.

Build your knowledge with core courses

Every UQ MBA student completes 5 courses that teach them the core business knowledge required for leadership success. The topics of these courses include resonant leadership, strategy, financial management, accounting, and leading people and teams. These courses (and the entire program) will equip you with a transformation mindset, by learning to consider sustainability, ethics, law, digital, governance and risk considerations, frameworks and practices. 

Expand your capabilities with exciting MBA electives

Building on these 5 core courses, you’ll extend your business knowledge and expertise across various domains and functions by completing 4, 5 or all 6 of these MBA electives:

• Digitalising Business
• Transformational Marketing
• Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM)
• Operations Delivery and Transformation
• Innovation Leadership
• Business Economics.

Explore a range of diverse flexible core courses

Our flexible core course options allow you to further customise your learning experience and get the most out of your program. Is there a particular business topic you want to gain more expertise in? Do you want to broaden your experience in building and embedding strategic business solutions or entrepreneurial ventures? Or do you want to take advantage of our program’s flexibility by completing a course outside the MBA or travelling overseas? This is your chance to extend your learning to suit your needs.            

To personalise your MBA learning experience, there are several possible options you can pursue. These include:

1. UQ MBA Impact Academy    

Through your choice of 1, 2 or 3 courses, this unique learning experience provides the opportunity to learn transferable problem-solving skills and then apply your learnings to a product, service or business idea. In these immersive experiential courses, you’ll address complex business problems and opportunities emanating from social, environmental, technological or economic disruption. You’ll also develop practical, impactful approaches to creating and delivering value to diverse stakeholders across businesses and sectors.

2. Research         

The UQ MBA also offers you the chance to pursue a research project to prepare for a research career (PhD pathway) or to become an expert on a business topic. If you’re interested in this option, you’ll need to complete 1 research methods course as well as your own independent research project.

Explore your interests

You can also complement the key capabilities you're learning in the MBA with an elective outside the program that aligns with your interests or career ambitions. Options include:

No matter how you choose to customise your MBA, it’s important to start thinking about the possibilities early. Understanding your study plan and how to structure your program based on your interests will ensure you have enough time to take advantage of the options available.

Our MBA Admissions team has a deep understanding of what you can learn in each course of the program. They can help you choose the courses that will best help you reach your unique career goals, so reach out to assess your options.

In addition, our dedicated MBA Careers and Professional Development Team will work with you one on one to position you for continued career progression and success, in line with your MBA learnings.