MBA
Discipline
Ready to take your career to new heights? Explore Deakin’s flexible and immersive Master of Business Administration programs. Collaborate and expand your business network through study tours and residential intensives.
Explore your study options
Our flagship Master of Business Administration (MBA) offers various specialisations for advancing your career in business – from artificial intelligence to business strategy. We also offer a tailored MBA course for international business.
Choose an MBA degree that will expand your professional network
Want a course that works with your life, not against it? Personalise study to suit your goals, interests and life commitments while enjoying unrivalled experiential opportunities.
Study an intensive unit
Deakin Business School's intensive units involve six consecutive days of intensive study. You’ll immerse yourself in focused business study, undertake innovative and experiential learning activities and build your professional networks.
Affordable short courses
Our new stackable short courses enable you to prioritise what you learn, when. Each course is co-designed with industry experts and partners to meet your career goals and their employment needs, with the added benefit of credit towards Deakin's MBA.
Overseas study
Experience new cultures and workplaces to enrich your learning and gain credit towards your degree with our overseas study opportunities. Participate in international consultancy experiences, internships, volunteering placements and study abroad programs.
See MBA students in action
Get the unfiltered study experience, direct from our students.
POV: MBA residential life at Deakin.
The Deakin MBA offers breadth, a strong cohort and real value.
Why choose the Deakin MBA? Flexibility that fits your life.
Why do an MBA residential at Deakin? The experience says it all.
Inside a Deakin MBA residential at Waurn Ponds Estate.
Not just a degree, this is the MBA journey.
Graduate with an employment advantage
Deakin Business School holds both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations, meaning we are globally recognised and internationally benchmarked. As one of the top 3 business schools in Victoria, a Deakin MBA or management qualification will distinguish you from your peers.
MBA webinar
Discover what makes Deakin’s MBA unique. Course director Dr Paul Harrison and graduate Alyssa Poyner explain how it challenges perspectives and develops new ways of leading through complexity. You’ll also hear about immersive study experiences, networking opportunities and the value of learning alongside a diverse professional cohort.
Be rewarded for the work you’ve already put in
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is our way of recognising the hard work you’ve already put into your studies or career. If you have successfully completed postgraduate studies in management, you may be granted RPL for the MBA, reducing your course duration and tuition costs.
Are you a member of one of our partner organisations?
We also recognise the learning and experience of accredited professionals with credit arrangements for members of our partner bodies including:
- Australian Institute of Company Directors
- Australian War College
- Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- CPA Australia
- Institute of Public Accountants
- Women and Leadership Australia.
Take control of your career
Your career goals are integral to our MBA program. Deakin Advantage, our career development unit, empowers you to define and pursue your career path. The MBA (International) program offers work-integrated learning opportunities to enhance your experience and job-market potential. Our graduates are excelling in diverse sectors, from entrepreneurship to corporates and not-for-profit leadership.
Study online at the #1 Victorian uni for graduate employment
Deakin’s online MBA programs are designed to fit your lifestyle and career goals so you can study anytime, anywhere. Join more than 78,000 online students who have already graduated from Deakin.
Join an immersive MBA study tour
On Deakin’s MBA marketing study tour, Bree Keys and Melanie Kerin explored how culture shapes commerce in a European market and applied theory to practice in this immersive study mode.
World-class teaching experiences
Deakin’s industry-shaped courses and practical, real-world approach to learning will prepare you to be adaptable across your career trajectory.
Benefit from industry connections
Designed with industry experts to reflect today’s organisations, our MBA programs are responsive to industry dynamics, directions in management and workplace trends. Gain valuable opportunities to build your networks and advance your career.
Learn in the workplace
Bring the challenges of your current role into your course as assessable business cases or explore a variety of business and professional environments with work-integrated learning opportunities.
Focus your expertise
With over 20 specialisations available, you can focus on what matters to you, whether it’s business analytics or supply chain management, and align your expertise to your interests.
Practise sustainable management
You’ll be ready for sustainable business – our courses integrate practices from global frameworks like the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Principles of Responsible Management Education.
Want to explore more?
Here's how your job improves when you complete an MBA
Is an MBA worth it? Three Deakin graduates and an academic tell us how an MBA can change your career for the better.
Use your MBA before you graduate: how to put your learning into practice
The practical nature of Deakin's MBA means you can implement what you learn straight away, leading to tangible career shifts.
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Contact us
Got a question about our MBA courses? Our course advisers are available to speak to you about your study options and how we can help you further your career.
Domestic students
1800 693 888
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International students
+61 3 9918 9188
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