Online MBA | Subjects
Curriculum Details
12 subjects required
The Online MBA comprises 12 subjects and is designed to be flexible, accelerated, and industry aligned. Delivered in six-week study blocks, the program allows you to balance study with professional and personal commitments.
With relevant prior study, you may be eligible for credit and complete the MBA in as little as one year. Many students finish within 18 months full-time.
To complete the MBA, you will undertake:
- 12 subjects focused on AI-enabled strategy, leadership, and business fundamentals
Choose from three future-focused specialisations:
- AI, Analytics and Cybersecurity
- Digital Health
- Leadership and Governance
You’ll work with an MBA Director to create a personalised study plan and build a portfolio of applied work that demonstrates your leadership capability in AI-enabled, data-driven environments. Graduate ready to lead change, apply AI strategically, and create sustainable value in a rapidly evolving economy.
For more information on completion timelines or specialisation options, you can speak with an enrolment adviser or request further details.
Core subjects (90CP)
Credits
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature and function of business. However, business leaders are challenged by the effective and competitive adoption of AI. This subject provides you with an industry-ready skillset to empower productivity, innovation and decision-making across the business ecosystem. You will learn to apply prompting techniques, build and evaluate AI chatbots, construct and articulate AI strategies. Alongside AI capabilities, you will recognise and address the risks of AI, ethics and cybersecurity through a deep understanding of local and international guidelines, regulations and governance. You will foster an AI-first mindset for the effective and responsible practice of AI in any business or industry environment.
Navigating the AI Economy develops advanced economic and analytical capability for organisational decision making in an AI-driven global economy. The subject applies key economic concepts and frameworks to business, organisational, and societal challenges shaped by artificial intelligence, data, and automation. You will use digital and AI-enabled tools to interpret economic data, analyse market behaviour, and evaluate financial and organisational performance. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, problem solving, and the construction of sound economic arguments to support evidence-based strategic decisions in complex and uncertain environments.
Entrepreneurship and innovation are not only enablers of global economic and social transformation, but the drivers of employment creation and prosperity. In this subject we explore the entrepreneurial mindset of successful entrepreneurs, align the process of entrepreneurship from startup to exit, and analyse the impact and extent of dynamic innovation processes in the quest for value creation, transformation and disruption. Entrepreneurship tools are critically evaluated to launch successful startups or corporate ventures and you will apply coherent and integrated knowledge of theoretical and practice based approaches to contemporary challenges in entrepreneurship and innovation. You will shape the future by creating it.
Strategy develops your ability to design, assess, and implement value‑creating strategies for organisations operating in complex, technology‑infused and generative AI‑driven business environments. The subject integrates contemporary strategic management principles with insights from responsible AI leadership, preparing you to lead ethically and strategically as AI reshapes competitive landscapes. You will examine strategic tools and frameworks used by organisations ranging from startups to multinational enterprises and evaluate how strategic choices are influenced by global markets, technological disruption, and evolving regulatory expectations. The subject builds your capability to assess competitive position, evaluate strategic options, and support strategic decision making as AI and digital technologies transform industries. Emphasis is placed on aligning strategy with organisational goals, risk, and long‑term performance in dynamic and uncertain environments.
Financial Management and Accounting provides a practical foundation in financial management, accounting, and technology, focusing on how managers use financial information to support effective organisational decision making. The subject develops core capabilities in interpreting financial statements, assessing cash flow, evaluating capital budgeting decisions, and applying key principles of managerial finance in contemporary business contexts. Generative AI tools are integrated throughout the subject to support financial analysis and decision making. You will use AI‑enabled tools to analyse financial data more efficiently, generate insights, support governance and accountability, and communicate financial information and strategies clearly to diverse stakeholder audiences. Emphasis is placed on applying financial and accounting knowledge to real‑world managerial decisions in technology‑enabled and data‑rich environments.
This subject provides a contemporary approach to strategy formulation and implementation. The emphasis is on design-thinking and creative ideation for solving problems and strategy execution in a rapidly changing global environment. Independently and with others, you will explore and apply concepts that offer a basis for solving complex strategic issues facing organisations. You will conceptualise and validate solutions to a problem using an evidence -based analysis.
Elective subjects (select one, 15CP)
Credits
Digital and AI Marketing examines how artificial intelligence and analytics are transforming contemporary marketing practice across customer acquisition, conversion, retention, and loyalty. You will develop a strong foundation in core marketing concepts while learning how AI‑enabled tools support personalisation, content creation, campaign automation, and performance measurement across digital channels. The subject emphasises applied marketing decision‑making, using real‑world cases to design and implement effective marketing strategies, while addressing responsible practice in data quality, privacy, brand safety, and ethical marketing.
This enables you to complete a project-based initiative within your organisation, applying MBA knowledge to real business challenges. You’ll critically reflect on your practice, integrate theory with workplace learning, and receive academic and organisational feedback to support your development as a leader. This subject allows you to earn MBA credit while delivering meaningful outcomes for your organisation.
AI agents are disrupting the labour market with job redesign and displacement due to their autonomous operation and decision-making abilities at low marginal cost and with minimal human supervision. This subject begins by exploring the labour market impact of AI agents and the transformative industry standards and frameworks for building and deploying agents. Hands-on workshops will train you to build, configure and manage AI agents and agentic workflows across diverse business functions.
Capstone subject (15CP)
Credits
Responsible AI Leadership develops the capability to lead organisations responsibly in AI‑enabled and data‑driven environments. The subject focuses on ethical, inclusive, and sustainable leadership, examining how managers apply governance, risk, and ethical frameworks when implementing AI‑supported decision making. You will learn to lead teams through technological change, communicate AI‑informed decisions, and align AI initiatives with organisational values, integrity, accountability, and social responsibility. The subject also examines how financial and operational considerations influence AI adoption, enabling informed decisions that balance innovation, risk, governance, and organisational performance.
Elective subjects (select four, 60CP) OR Select a specialisation below
Credits
In this subject, you will be provided with an overview of the new and emerging field of global corporate governance. Numerous corporate failures and environmental disasters in recent times have provided a surge of interest in ensuring companies reflect not only regulatory standards but also conduct their operations to reflect community and society norms. By the conclusion of this subject you should be able to add value to your organisations through your understanding of corporate governance in a global context and of the role of the board of directors and management. Working independently, and working together with others, you will learn about corporate governance through solving business problems and develop ethical, critical thinking and problem solving skills required to add value to organisations.
This subject is designed to develop your ability to critically assess the role of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in contemporary organisations. It also provides you with an opportunity to reflect on your role as a leader in terms of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Through the use of frameworks, concepts and real-world scenarios you will aim to build your capacity to develop sustainable practices for organisations and to include global ethical concepts in organisational decision-making. Workplace inclusion is examined with particular regard to the most pressing challenges in the Australian and global contexts, and informed by theories of human rights, just distribution, respect and equity. A selection of other relevant topics (e.g., conflict within teams, the future of work) will be introduced, shaped by current research, current events, and your interest.
In a highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, effectively managing human capital is essential for an organisation’s success, and is increasingly part of an organisation’s strategy development and implementation. People and Culture (P&C) and Human Resource Management (HRM) is often a distinct unit within an organisation, but it is also increasingly integrated within the general management role. Thus, effective general managers must be able to retain talent, manage staff wellbeing and enhance employees’ productivity. In this subject, you will explore contemporary HRM concepts for leading and implementing people and culture strategies that contribute to organisational sustainability, productive employment and decent work for all (UN SDG 8). You will be encouraged to critically examine how current people and culture practices can be applied in the general management context.
Vibe coding and AI-assisted coding are recent AI capabilities that significantly reduce the cost, time and expertise required for technology adoption and development. These unlock innovation opportunities for SMEs and startups operating with limited budgets. This subject will provide you with technical, creative and problem-solving skills for the design, development and evaluation of prototypes for startups and related business environments. The risks and limitations of vibe coding will be learned alongside conventional coding methods, ethics and cybersecurity guidelines. The ecosystem, opportunities and challenges of AI startups will be a further topic of this subject.
The information age has combined with the widespread adoption of digital technology to turn information into a key business asset. Organisations have access to volumes of data and require skills and expertise in using this information for strategic decision making. Predictive analytics refers to the statistical and analytical techniques used to develop models that predict future events from data. You will learn the skills to build and use predictive models in real business scenarios. Case studies such as target marketing and customer churn analysis will be used to demonstrate the business value of predictive analytics. A number of related data mining and machine learning techniques such as neural networks, decision trees, customer segmentation and profiling will also be taught.
As data becomes ever more complex to analyse, the need for tools to help integrate the user’s knowledge and inference capability into the analytical process becomes important. In analytics, this is generally referred to as visualisation, which this subject will cover in detail from various perspectives, for example, temporal, spatial, spatial-temporal, multi-variate, text/documents, graphs and networks, and more. These perspectives will be covered with various business applications in mind including, statistical and summary reporting, trends spotting and projections, process capture, and real-time reporting. These applications will be discussed with reference to various visual analytics frameworks and theories as well as case examples.
Cloud and Cybersecurity examines how organisations design, govern, and protect cloud‑based systems, data, and digital operations in an environment of increasing cyber risk and regulatory scrutiny. The subject develops managerial understanding of cloud platforms, shared responsibility models, and cybersecurity threats, focusing on how leaders balance security, resilience, performance, privacy, and cost in technology‑enabled organisations. You will explore cybersecurity risk management, governance frameworks, and control mechanisms used to protect cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. The subject emphasises practical decision‑making, including incident response, business continuity, and the role of leadership in managing cyber risk across enterprise and supply‑chain contexts. Ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations, such as data protection, privacy, and accountability are integrated throughout. Through applied cases and hands‑on activities, you will develop the capability to evaluate cloud and cybersecurity strategies, communicate risk and assurance to stakeholders, and support secure, resilient, and responsible digital transformation.
In this subject, you will gain an understanding of what “big data” is, why it is important to the health and healthcare sectors, and how it can be used in real-world applications. You will investigate how data analytics can benefit healthcare delivery, and improve system efficiency and patient outcomes data collection. You will develop a working knowledge of the analytical techniques used to mine big data and visualise it. You will explore the requirements for data research infrastructure, review the current big data landscape (including assets, facilities, and services), and investigate the requirements around information privacy and security in relation to big data in digital health. Data linkage techniques and various strategies to tackle problems relating to data linkage quality will also be explored.
In this subject, you will explore the evolution of virtual care models by learning the “art and science” behind virtual care applications and keeping abreast with the latest developments in technologies (including devices from the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)) used for health delivery. You will learn about the ethical challenges that are faced in this space. You will also evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies and understand the need to provide evidence-based virtual care.
In this subject, you will gain digital health strategic planning knowledge and see how this can be applied to relevant work contexts through the use of role-play, case discussion and observation. You will explore topics related to digital transformation in the context of healthcare sector. You will examine frameworks to assess organisational readiness and how to develop a systematic digital transformation roadmap. You will learn more about project and change management processes that can help foster and embrace digital change.
In this subject you will consolidate digital health solution design & implementation knowledge and develop skills to apply your knowledge to relevant work contexts through the use of role-playing, case discussion, and observation. You will gain knowledge about problem analysis and solution design using co-design, human-centered and experience-based approaches. The subject will also provide foundational knowledge of solutions interoperability and change management. You will learn about implementation science in regard to behaviour change design and aspects of converting prototypes into reality.
In this subject you will gain an understanding of the growing technological trends, its related issues/problems, and strategies to tackle healthcare problems. It will help you compare and contrast technologies using standard frameworks. You will explore the role of digital health technologies and how they are applied in healthcare, public health and health promotion. You will also learn ethics and law in relation to digital health innovations, and research updates in digital health.
Digital health specialisation (select four, 60CP)
Credits
In this subject, you will gain an understanding of what “big data” is, why it is important to the health and healthcare sectors, and how it can be used in real-world applications. You will investigate how data analytics can benefit healthcare delivery, and improve system efficiency and patient outcomes data collection. You will develop a working knowledge of the analytical techniques used to mine big data and visualise it. You will explore the requirements for data research infrastructure, review the current big data landscape (including assets, facilities, and services), and investigate the requirements around information privacy and security in relation to big data in digital health. Data linkage techniques and various strategies to tackle problems relating to data linkage quality will also be explored.
In this subject, you will explore the evolution of virtual care models by learning the “art and science” behind virtual care applications and keeping abreast with the latest developments in technologies (including devices from the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)) used for health delivery. You will learn about the ethical challenges that are faced in this space. You will also evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies and understand the need to provide evidence-based virtual care.
In this subject, you will gain digital health strategic planning knowledge and see how this can be applied to relevant work contexts through the use of role-play, case discussion and observation. You will explore topics related to digital transformation in the context of healthcare sector. You will examine frameworks to assess organisational readiness and how to develop a systematic digital transformation roadmap. You will learn more about project and change management processes that can help foster and embrace digital change.
In this subject you will consolidate digital health solution design & implementation knowledge and develop skills to apply your knowledge to relevant work contexts through the use of role-playing, case discussion, and observation. You will gain knowledge about problem analysis and solution design using co-design, human-centered and experience-based approaches. The subject will also provide foundational knowledge of solutions interoperability and change management. You will learn about implementation science in regard to behaviour change design and aspects of converting prototypes into reality.
In this subject you will gain an understanding of the growing technological trends, its related issues/problems, and strategies to tackle healthcare problems. It will help you compare and contrast technologies using standard frameworks. You will explore the role of digital health technologies and how they are applied in healthcare, public health and health promotion. You will also learn ethics and law in relation to digital health innovations, and research updates in digital health.
AI, analytics and cybersecurity specialisation
Credits
Vibe coding and AI-assisted coding are recent AI capabilities that significantly reduce the cost, time and expertise required for technology adoption and development. These unlock innovation opportunities for SMEs and startups operating with limited budgets. This subject will provide you with technical, creative and problem-solving skills for the design, development and evaluation of prototypes for startups and related business environments. The risks and limitations of vibe coding will be learned alongside conventional coding methods, ethics and cybersecurity guidelines. The ecosystem, opportunities and challenges of AI startups will be a further topic of this subject.
The information age has combined with the widespread adoption of digital technology to turn information into a key business asset. Organisations have access to volumes of data and require skills and expertise in using this information for strategic decision making. Predictive analytics refers to the statistical and analytical techniques used to develop models that predict future events from data. You will learn the skills to build and use predictive models in real business scenarios. Case studies such as target marketing and customer churn analysis will be used to demonstrate the business value of predictive analytics. A number of related data mining and machine learning techniques such as neural networks, decision trees, customer segmentation and profiling will also be taught.
As data becomes ever more complex to analyse, the need for tools to help integrate the user’s knowledge and inference capability into the analytical process becomes important. In analytics, this is generally referred to as visualisation, which this subject will cover in detail from various perspectives, for example, temporal, spatial, spatial-temporal, multi-variate, text/documents, graphs and networks, and more. These perspectives will be covered with various business applications in mind including, statistical and summary reporting, trends spotting and projections, process capture, and real-time reporting. These applications will be discussed with reference to various visual analytics frameworks and theories as well as case examples.
Cloud and Cybersecurity examines how organisations design, govern, and protect cloud‑based systems, data, and digital operations in an environment of increasing cyber risk and regulatory scrutiny. The subject develops managerial understanding of cloud platforms, shared responsibility models, and cybersecurity threats, focusing on how leaders balance security, resilience, performance, privacy, and cost in technology‑enabled organisations. You will explore cybersecurity risk management, governance frameworks, and control mechanisms used to protect cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. The subject emphasises practical decision‑making, including incident response, business continuity, and the role of leadership in managing cyber risk across enterprise and supply‑chain contexts. Ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations, such as data protection, privacy, and accountability are integrated throughout. Through applied cases and hands‑on activities, you will develop the capability to evaluate cloud and cybersecurity strategies, communicate risk and assurance to stakeholders, and support secure, resilient, and responsible digital transformation.
Leadership and governance specialisation
Credits
In this subject, you will be provided with an overview of the new and emerging field of global corporate governance. Numerous corporate failures and environmental disasters in recent times have provided a surge of interest in ensuring companies reflect not only regulatory standards but also conduct their operations to reflect community and society norms. By the conclusion of this subject you should be able to add value to your organisations through your understanding of corporate governance in a global context and of the role of the board of directors and management. Working independently, and working together with others, you will learn about corporate governance through solving business problems and develop ethical, critical thinking and problem solving skills required to add value to organisations.
This subject is designed to develop your ability to critically assess the role of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in contemporary organisations. It also provides you with an opportunity to reflect on your role as a leader in terms of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Through the use of frameworks, concepts and real-world scenarios you will aim to build your capacity to develop sustainable practices for organisations and to include global ethical concepts in organisational decision-making. Workplace inclusion is examined with particular regard to the most pressing challenges in the Australian and global contexts, and informed by theories of human rights, just distribution, respect and equity. A selection of other relevant topics (e.g., conflict within teams, the future of work) will be introduced, shaped by current research, current events, and your interest.
In a highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, effectively managing human capital is essential for an organisation’s success, and is increasingly part of an organisation’s strategy development and implementation. People and Culture (P&C) and Human Resource Management (HRM) is often a distinct unit within an organisation, but it is also increasingly integrated within the general management role. Thus, effective general managers must be able to retain talent, manage staff wellbeing and enhance employees’ productivity. In this subject, you will explore contemporary HRM concepts for leading and implementing people and culture strategies that contribute to organisational sustainability, productive employment and decent work for all (UN SDG 8). You will be encouraged to critically examine how current people and culture practices can be applied in the general management context.
This subject is designed to give you an understanding of the core areas of commercial law and how they relate to each other. You will examine the core principles of contract law, commercial sale of goods and services, corporations law and the law of negligence. It is suitable for those of you who want an overview of commercial law as well as if you want to bring yourself up to date with recent developments in this field. This subject provides you with practical experience in applying commercial law to solve contemporary commercial issues. This skill-based learning approach helps you to demonstrate your ability to apply commercial law concepts and legal advice to authentic legal problem scenarios.
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