Professional Certificate in Business Studies

Upskill with business savvy

The capacity to adapt professionally has never been more valuable-and our new Professional Certificate of Business Studies provides an incredibly flexible catalyst for your career progress.

Add business savvy to existing specialist training and knowledge, upskill to improve your employability, or lay the foundations for more advanced study-all in less than a year.

Conducted over just six months part-time, the program will equip you with essential business- and management-related knowledge in your chosen field(s). You'll choose two courses from a suite of 16, ranging from accounting and finance, to entrepreneurship, design thinking, marketing and project leadership.

You will graduate with the skills and confidence to:

• apply coherent and developed knowledge of business-related concepts in diverse commercial contexts using critical thinking
• apply effective problem-solving, design and decision-making methods to conceive and communicate innovative solutions to complex business problems, in a range of commercial contexts.

Depending on your course choices, you could also gain the ability to conduct basic data analysis to enable evidence-based, value-creating business decisions.

You'll emerge ready to step up and play your part in the business setting of your choosing. You might use the qualification to complement other discipline-specific skills and training. It could give you a foot in a new industry's door. Perhaps you'll use it as a springboard into further business-related study, with a graduate certificate, graduate diploma, or masters.

• Australia's #1 University for Entrepreneurship Education^
• ISO 9001 Certification
• AACSB accredited

^Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities, 2017

• ACCTING 7025: Accounting Essentials for Decision Makers
• COMMGMT 7003: Family Business Fundamentals
• COMMGMT 7004: Advising the Family Enterprise
• COMMGMT 7006: People and Organisations
• CORPFIN 7005: Principles of Finance
• CORPFIN 7033: Quantitative Methods
• ECON 7200: Economic Principles
• ENTREP 5036: Entrepreneurial Concepts and Mindset
• ENTREP 5038: New Venture Creation
• ENTREP 7020: Design Thinking
• INTBUS 7015: Cross-cultural Management and Negotiation
• MARKETNG 7104: Marketing Management
• PROJMGNT 5004: Risk Assessment and Management
• PROJMGNT 5021: Project Management Fundamentals
• PROJMGNT 7038: Project Leadership and Communication
• PROJMGNT 7047: Systems Design for Projects