With enhanced choice and flexibility built in, our responsive program design enables you to customise your MBA learning experience.

Here’s more information about what you’ll study and how to tailor the program to gain maximum value and meet your career and professional development needs.

Core courses to build your knowledge

All students complete 5 courses to gain 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 will equip you with a transformation mindset by learning to consider sustainability, ethics, law, digital, governance and risk considerations, frameworks and practices. 

Exciting MBA electives to expand your capabilities

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 electives from this list:

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

If you’ve already completed postgraduate studies in one of these business fields, you may be eligible for credit towards these courses, allowing you to graduate sooner. Contact us to discuss your options.

Flexible core courses to explore

Our flexible core course options allow you to further customise your learning experience and get the most out of your MBA. Is there a particular business topic you want to gain more expertise in?  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.

Learn more about the UQ MBA Impact Academy courses

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.

Learn more about the research pathway

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 completing:

• an academic course outside the MBA
• the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course
• a semester overseas at one of our partner institutions, including Harvard University.

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 administration 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 the team at mba@business.uq.edu.au to assess your options.

Our dedicated MBA Careers and Professional Development Team can also help position you for continued career progression and success. Complete Career Milestone 1 in Student Hub to gain clarity about your career goals and the tools to achieve them.

Learn more about the Career Milestone Program.