Applicants must have successfully completed an undergraduate degree in any discipline
five years full-time equivalent managerial/professional work experience.
Applications from Australian and New Zealand citizens and holders of permanent resident visas must be made via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).
International applicants must apply directly to the University of Western Sydney via UWS International.
Applicants who have undertaken studies overseas may have to provide proof of proficiency in English. Details of minimum English proficiency requirements and acceptable proof can be found on the Universities Admissions Centre website (UAC).
Overseas qualifications must be deemed by the Australian Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR) to be equivalent to Australian qualifications in order to be considered by UAC and UWS.
Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 80 credit points which include the units listed below.
Students must complete the four core units and choose four units from one of the specialistions listed below.
Exit Awards
2632 Graduate Diploma in Business and Commerce - 60 credit points.
Four Core units plus two specialisation units.
2633 Graduate Certificate in Business and Commerce - 40 credit points
All four Core units
Core Units
Human Resource Management
The unit serves as an introduction to human resource management for those considering careers in employment relations and those who will potentially have people management responsibilities. HR processes and practices are studied in contexts and with a consideration of stakeholders’ interests, leading to an appreciation of the contribution of human resource management to organisational success. Students will evaluate particular approaches to human resource management through analysing real-world cases and practical activities.
Management Skills
This unit explores the skills of managers and their effect on organisational leadership. The contemporary organisations in which we work bring together a complex array of relationships and processes that require ongoing development of a broad range of skills for the manager. Management and leadership, and the skills required for both, are not seen as separate in this unit. This unit focuses on building the skills which will best prepare managers and leaders for dynamic and changing organisational environments.
Choose one of:
Accounting: A Business Perspective (PG)
Accounting: A Business Perspective focuses on the analytical uses of accounting information by managers. It emphasizes the role of both financial and management accounting in measuring, processing and communicating information that is useful in making economic decisions
Introductory Accounting (PG)
The nature of accounting requires the first unit in accounting to attend to the process and system, which represents what accountants do. Many of the most difficult theoretical, conceptual and practical problems encountered by accountants originate in the basic model A=O+E and the necessity of making data and events conform to that model. Concepts and principles in accounting ultimately must face the test of procedure and relate to the systematic processing of the data. Introduction to accounting regulation and ethics.
(For students undertaking an accounting specialisation)
Choose one of:
Marketing Systems
This unit introduces students to marketing from a holistic point of view which considers social, economic and organisational marketing systems. The unit also covers the evolution of marketing environments and the corresponding adaptations to marketing. Further emphasis is given to businesses capacities to engage in markets and therefore considers areas such as risk management, governance and financial assessments. This unit exposes students to the systematic and analytical approaches expected from them in postgraduate studies in marketing.
Economics (PG)
This unit concentrates on both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic theories. Microeconomics is concerned with the study of individual units within the economy - the individual consumer, the individual firm, the type of market structure facing the firm and price and output determination. Macroeconomics is concerned with analysis of the factors determining the way in which the economic resources of an economy are utilised or under-utilised.
Specialisations
Accounting
Marketing
Finance
Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
Operations Management
No Specialisation Option One:
Students must complete the four core units and choose four units from across the College of Business postgraduate unit offerings to attain generic Master of Business and Commerce.
No Specialisation Option Two:
With Head of Program approval, students may choose up to two units from outside the College of Business as part of their no specialisation option. Students then complete the remaining two units from units available within the specialisations
