Adelaide University
Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Type: Graduate Diploma
Boost your confidence and professionalism while developing an entrepreneurial mindset and learn to drive innovation in the complex business enterprises of the future.
Course overview
This 100% online diploma is completed part-time over 1.3 years, with courses delivered sequentially in six-week blocks.
You’ll learn how to encourage innovation and turn ideas into action. You’ll strengthen your intellectual and emotional self-awareness. Develop problem-solving skills. Advance your interpersonal communication. Gain accounting, economics and marketing insights.
You’ll build your capacity to identify and assess entrepreneurial opportunities. Get confident in mobilising people to solve problems and face adversity. Learn how to use research to support sustainable business growth.
You’ll graduate equipped for higher-level leadership roles or ready to continue straight on to the online MBA.
Key facts
August, 2026
October, 2026
What you will study
Students must complete 48 units comprising eight core courses. Each course is worth six units.
Core courses
Complete exactly 48 units for all of the following:
- Leadership and Influencing
- Marketing for Managers
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Accounting and Financial Management
- Research for Managers
- Managerial Economics
- Innovation Management
- Managing People and Organisations
Entry requirements
Admission criteria
To be eligible, an applicant must have achieved at least one of the following minimum entry requirements and demonstrate they fulfil any prerequisite and essential criteria for admission. In cases where there are more eligible applicants than available places, admission will be competitive with ranks based on the entry criteria.
- A completed bachelor's (AQF level 7) degree or equivalent from a recognised higher education institution AND a minimum of two years relevant work experience; OR
- A completed Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) with a score of 500 or higher AND a minimum of two years relevant work experience; OR
- A completed Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (AQF level 8) from a recognised higher education institution.
Recognition of Prior Learning
You may be able to get credit for your course based on prior formal, non-formal or informal learning. To apply, you will need to provide supporting documentation outlined by the university. Contact the university for more information.
Outcomes
Through future-oriented courses, you will:
- Improve your financial literacy.
- Study the language and concepts of accounting.
- Learn how to effectively lead and influence people.
- Unpack marketing from a management perspective.
- Develop your creative, experimental, agile and entrepreneurial thinking.
- Learn to recognise opportunity in a crowded, competitive market.
- Gain the tools to enhance your ethical decision-making.
- Explore your evolving leadership story and philosophy.
- Identify areas for ongoing personal and professional development.
You’ll also learn about research processes and methodologies, investigating business research as a managerial decision-making tool.
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative total fee in 2026: $41,880 (domestic full-fee paying place)
All costs are calculated using current rates and are based on a study load of 48 units (normally eight courses) per year.
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of courses studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of courses.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
You may also need to pay the student services and amenities fee.
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 program.