University of Adelaide
Executive Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Type: Graduate Diploma
The graduate diploma provides key business skills and a pathway into the prestigious Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Course overview
Graduate with the skills, contacts and mental models needed to pursue leadership roles in your chosen business career.
The Executive Graduate Diploma in Business Administration explores critical aspects of business activity, preparing students for executive level management. Students will integrate theory and practice, developing a wide range of technical literacy to inform evidence-based decision-making. The program will help to instil a globally aware and people-oriented mindset, aiding students in the assessment and development of their own leadership skills and capabilities.
Key facts
What you will study
To qualify for the Executive Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study consisting of the following requirements with a combined total of not less than 24 units, comprising:
- Core courses to the value of 18 units.
- Elective courses to the value of 6 units.
Core courses
Complete the following:
- Accounting for Managers
- Business Analytics for Managers
- Managerial Finance
- Fundamentals of Leadership
- Managing Contemporary Organisations
- Marketing Management
Electives
Choose two of the following:
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Business Performance Improvement
- Business Law
- Services and Operations Management
- Project Management
- Negotiation Skills
- Judgement Based Decision Making
- Organisation Innovation
- Management Project (Research)
- Contemporary Business Practice
- Systems Thinking for Management
- Business Project (Consulting)
Entry requirements
Academic requirements
You must have one of the following:
- A minimum of five years of relevant work experience is required for applicants with a completed AQF bachelor's degree (minimum GPA 5.0).
- A minimum of seven years of related work experience and a satisfactory GMAT score (550) is required for applications without a completed bachelor's degree.
- A completed Adelaide Graduate Certificate in Business Administration.
All eligible applicants will be invited to an interview with the MBA Director where the applicant must demonstrate leadership, communication, team skills, motivation and business skills.
Please upload a copy of your CV with your application. Additionally, if you have had previous contact with the EMBA Director through one of the MBA Coffee catch up sessions or EMBA Information Sessions, please indicate this in your CV.
English language requirements
For international applicants, you must have one of the following:
- Successful completion of an Australian year 12 qualification with a minimum pass in an accepted English language subject.
- IELTS: Overall 7, Reading 6.5, Listening 6.5, Speaking 6.5, Writing 6.5.
- TOEFL: Overall 94, Reading 20, Listening 20, Speaking 22, Writing 24.
- Pearson: Overall 65, Reading 58, Listening 58, Speaking 58, Writing 58.
- C1 Advanced: Overall 185, Reading 176, Listening 176, Speaking 176, Writing 176.
- A range of alternative qualifications may meet the university’s minimum English requirements.
Outcomes
Career outcomes
Graduates of this program have gone on to roles such as:
- Marketer/Marketing manager
- Business development manager
- Business manager
- CEO
- Product manager
- Project manager
- Team leader
- Innovation manager
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative annual tuition fee in 2025: $49,500 (domestic full-fee paying place)
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of units studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.