Adelaide University
Graduate Diploma in Management
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Type: Graduate Diploma
Build a versatile business skillset and essential management skills while sharpening your decision-making, communication and leadership abilities.
Course overview
The Graduate Diploma in Management is a one-year qualification that will teach you essential business knowledge and managerial skills to lead diverse organisations and make strategic decisions.
Build cross-disciplinary knowledge in marketing, entrepreneurship and accounting. Sharpen your analytical and communication skills. Learn how to effectively manage people and organisations and be able to achieve key business objectives.
Your qualification will prepare you to enter mid-level management positions across a range of businesses, organisations and industries.
Key facts
What you will study
Students must complete 48 units comprising 42 units for core courses and six units for electives. Each course is worth six units.
Core courses
Complete 42 units for all of the following:
- Accounting Principles for Decision Makers
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- People, Leadership and Organisational Performance
- Marketing
- Managing the Global Workforce
- Managing Organisational Development and Change
- Project Management Fundamentals
Electives
Complete six units from all university-wide electives.
Entry requirements
Admission criteria
To be eligible, an applicant must have achieved at least one of the following minimum entry requirements and demonstrate that 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) or bachelor's honours (AQF level 8) degree or equivalent from a recognised higher education institution; OR
- A completed nested or related graduate certificate (AQF level 8) or higher or equivalent from a recognised higher education institution; OR
- A completed Advanced Diploma (AQF level 6) or higher in a related field from a registered training organisation (RTO).
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
Career outcomes
Maybe you’ll become a marketing manager, leading strategy and campaigns to achieve business targets. Perhaps you’ll be an operations manager, working in retail or hospitality, ensuring smooth daily operations of a business. You might start working to identify a gap in the market to launch your own business.
Other career options include:
- Account Manager
- Business Development Manager
- Business Manager
- Human Resources Manager
- Office Manager
- Operations Manager
- Project Manager
- Team Leader or Supervisor
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative annual fee in 2026: $36,000 (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.