Graduate Certificate in Management

VU course code: BTMM | Level of study: Postgraduate

Duration

0.5 years full time or longer for part time

Delivery mode

Hybrid

Fees

Fee type for this course: Full fee

Location

City Campus

Applications closed

Overview

Gain a specialist postgraduate qualification to support your career development by studying our Graduate Certificate in Management.

This course has a strong foundation in organisational management and is designed as an entry point if you have hands-on management experience without an undergraduate degree. On completion you'll be able to pathway directly to a postgraduate diploma in business or into the Master of Management.

Topics covered in the course include:

strategic human resource management
business project management
strategic management and business policy
organisational change management.

Entry requirements

When assessing your application, we consider your education, work experience, current skills and personal attributes (where relevant).

Applicants for this course will need to meet the entry criteria outlined below. If you don’t meet the entry criteria, you may be able to gain entry by first completing a different course. We call this a ‘pathway’.

For PhD applicants, we offer a related ‘Integrated PhD’ which allows you to establish relevant skills before beginning your research.

You may also be eligible for course ‘credits’, where you are granted a unit or units towards your qualification for equivalent previous study or work experience, so you can graduate sooner.

Entry criteria

Credit & Entry pathways into this course

Victoria University is committed to providing a transparent admissions process. Find out more about how to apply for our courses, and our commitment to admissions transparency. Meeting the minimum admission criteria does not guarantee entry into this course. Past academic performance may be considered.

Course structure

To attain the award of Graduate Certificate in Management, students will be required to complete 48 credit points consisting of:

48 credit points of core units

Units

Fees & scholarships

University fees vary, depending on how much the government contributes towards course costs (if anything).

Read below to find out about the fee ‘type’, the estimated yearly tuition costs for this course, and the financial support on offer (including our generous scholarship program).

Fees

Scholarships

Careers

The skills developed in this course will equip you for roles in management and marketing such as:

senior management positions
generalist or specialist managers
project managers.

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