What to expect

Enhance your leadership and career prospects with JCU’s Master of Business Administration (Leadership).

Pursue your passion for effective leadership. Be exposed to a broad range of disciplines and specialist subjects, including entrepreneurship, value creation leadership, cross-cultural management, economics, marketing, and sustainable enterprise.

Learn from like-minded business experts and benefit from an emphasis on modern governance and sustainable and entrepreneurial business practices. You will have the opportunity for real-world networking with highly-influential links to industry and government agencies.

Accelerate your business career. JCU Master of Business Administration (Leadership) graduates have more opportunities to advance to senior management and leadership positions while leading sustainable change.

Career Opportunities

JCU Master of Business Administration (Leadership) graduates have outstanding leadership skills and are sought-after in a wide range of industries.

Graduates pursue careers in economics, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, business law, and information technology.

You could work as a management consultant, marketing manager, market research analyst, investment banker, operations manager, or financial advisor.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Master of Business Administration (Leadership), JCU graduates will be able to:

• Critically analyse complex business-related knowledge and practice from both historical and recent perspectives;
• Critically analyse leadership theories and skills required for building successful teams;
• Apply responsible leadership principles to effect change;
• Evaluate contexts within which differing sustainable business performance methods should be integrated and applied;
• Evaluate sustainable economic, social and environmental practices and value systems from different disciplinary perspectives;
• Research and apply established concepts to solve business and professional practice problems;
• Critically analyse complex contemporary business issues using appropriate models and make reasoned recommendations based on multidisciplinary synthesis of theory and evidence;
• Apply creative and innovative thinking effectively to business theory and practice;
• Present complex business analyses and information appropriately to differing audiences using effective oral presentation skills and clear and fluent written communication;
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in achieving common goals, demonstrating both collaboration and leadership;
• Adapt sustainable business constructs and skills to novel theoretical or practical situations;
• Exercise independent ethical judgment and initiative in solving differing business problems creatively;
• Demonstrate a capacity for personal reflection and self-development in relation to professional business learning and practice.