A program designed to guide your development as a business leader. The RMIT MBA is a challenging 1.5-year (full time) program designed to build real world business skills and creative problem-solving techniques. Your journey begins with the business fundamentals - Leadership and Management, Marketing, and Financial Analytics. You’ll be guided through these essential areas by committed lecturers who care about your progress. You’ll also discover your creative side in RMIT’s renowned Design Thinking for Business course. (Australia’s most established design thinking course). This inspirational course will transform the way you think about problem solving, and give you the confidence to attack complex business problems in new ways. After completing courses in areas such as Strategy and Management of Technology and Innovation, you’ll finish the program by building consulting and management skills that you can take directly to the market. Courses such as Business Research Design and Business Consulting are complemented by challenging electives that will sharpen your capabilities. You’ll graduate with a sound understanding of business fundamentals, an entirely new perspective on creative problem solving, and a set of real-world business skills that you can immediately apply in professional situations. (RMIT MBA graduates are widely acknowledged as job-ready by the business community). Career As an RMIT MBA graduate, you’re on the path to business leadership. You’ll find our MBA Graduates working and leading in professional, commercial, industrial, not-for-profit, NGO public administration and start-up organizations. They perform a wide range of roles, including organizational strategy and innovation, management consultancy, international development coordination, and advice and operations management. Our MBA program is designed to ensure our graduates enter the business world with the full range of real-world skills necessary to be an effective problem solver from day one. To help our students build these skills, we run a number of industry-relevant programs and electives. Our comprehensive Business Mentoring Program will assist your career progression and increase your employment opportunities. During the program, you will engage in a range of activities including seminars with guest speakers, group work and case studies, individual mentoring and coaching and career preparation. The mentoring program covers essential areas such as: leadership in the workplace, power and influence, judgement in decision-making, career and self-management, working in Australian organizations, working in Asia and working in a family business. All our business mentors have at least 15 years’ experience, are active leaders in their respective fields, and will provide valuable guidance and support. Further study Upon successful completion of this program, you may be eligible for entry into an RMIT Masters by Research or Doctoral (PhD) program.