CQUniversity
Graduate Certificate in Business Consulting
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 6 months
- Course Type: Graduate Certificate
Develop your knowledge of contemporary business consulting practices to effectively drive performance and achieve business objectives.
Course overview
Whether your background is in information technology, finance, management or another field, leverage your commercial acumen and gain formal credentials in business consulting with CQUni's Graduate Certificate in Business Consulting. This program allows you to acquire academically rigorous knowledge of contemporary business consulting practices, principles and tools to work confidently with clients in a business consultancy capacity.
This course will prepare you to advise organisations seeking to implement change, identify and solve problems, or improve business strategies and operations. You will gain key consulting skills across effective business communications, mentoring and leadership, problem solving, planning and organisational analysis during your studies. Upon completing this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to join an established business consultancy or develop your own consulting business.
CSP Subsidised Fees Available
This program has a limited quota of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP). The indicative CSP price is calculated based on first year fees for EFT. The actual fee may vary if there are choices in electives or majors.
Key facts
What you will study
You are required to complete three core units and one elective.
- Foundations of Management Consulting
- Effective Business Communications
- Transformational Leadership and Mentoring
Entry requirements
Academic requirements
To be eligible for entry into this course, applicants must hold one of the following:
- A completed Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) equivalent bachelor's degree or a higher equivalent qualification.
- A completed AQF equivalent diploma qualification with a minimum of two years of relevant business experience.
- A minimum of five years of relevant professional business experience.
Relevant professional business experience must include direct and personal involvement in decision-making responsibilities such as budgeting, marketing, human resource management, staffing, project management, financial management, process management or other relevant professional experience.
Professional experience must be shown in a letter of employment presented on company letterhead and signed and dated by a delegated authority. The letter must contain the position title, duties performed and length of service.
English language requirements
Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of one of the following criteria:
- A secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent).
- An AQF diploma-level qualification.
- Bachelor's level qualification study for at least two years full-time with a minimum overall GPA of 4.0 completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, or the United States of America.
If you do not satisfy any of the above criteria, you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores below:
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic): The overall band score was at least 6.0, with a minimum of 5.5 in each subset.
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): Requires 550 or better overall and a minimum TWE score of 4.5 (Paper Based Test), or 75 or better overall and no score less than 17 (Internet Based Test).
- Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46.
- Occupational English Test: Grades A or B only in the four components.
English test results remain valid for no more than two years between the final examination date and the commencement date of study. They must appear on a single result certificate. Each student will be assessed individually.
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
The Graduate Certificate in Business Consulting focuses on building the knowledge and skills required by professional business consultants. Students will be able to apply their learning to consultancy roles in established consulting firms, or may choose to set up their own consultancy business. Since consultancy professionals operate across all industries and organisations, including the corporate, government and third (not-for-profit) sectors, graduates will have a wide range of opportunities to focus on an area of interest. Specifically, students may seek employment as:
- Strategy or management consultants
- Marketing, human resource, or finance consultants
- Change management or corporate transformation consultants
- Project management consultants
Fees and CSP
Indicative first-year tuition fee in 2025: $15,990 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Indicative first-year tuition fee in 2025: $8,496 (Commonwealth Supported Place)
The indicative first-year fee is the approximate cost of enrolling in this course for one academic year depending on the type of place you are offered, for example, a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) or full-fee paying (FFP) place. For a graduate certificate, this is usually four units studied full-time over one term or part-time over two terms.
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.
Commonwealth Supported Places
The Australian Government allocates a certain number of CSPs to the universities each year, which are then distributed to students based on merit.
If you're a Commonwealth Supported Student (CSS), you'll only need to pay a portion of your tuition fees. This is known as the student contribution amount – the balance once the government subsidy is applied. This means your costs are much lower.
Limited CSP spaces are offered to students enrolled in selected postgraduate courses.
Your student contribution amount is:
- Calculated per unit you're enrolled in.
- Dependent on the study areas they relate to.
- Reviewed and adjusted each year.
HECS-HELP loans are available to CSP students to pay the student contribution amount.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.