MBA specialising in Health Services Management

With a Southern Cross University online MBA, you'll develop both the business know-how and the practical skills to advance your career or build your own business. You'll examine contemporary management and develop solutions to complex commercial situations, all through the prism of the fast-paced, ever-evolving global digital economy.

Our MBA is rated 4 stars by the Graduate Management Association of Australia. We update the curriculum continuously to equip you with the latest concepts, and ensure everything relates back to evolving trends.

If your eye is on the job market, the 2014 Corporate Recruiters Survey found that 83% of organisations surveyed in the Asia-Pacific plan to hire MBAs this year - a number that's been steadily increasing since 2009.

You'll study broadly across a comprehensive suite of business units and then gain the deep knowledge you need to enhance your professional expertise. Your specialisation in Health Services Management will hone your clinical leadership skills. Y

ou'll examine health services management from a strategic management and planning perspective (how to plan for and deal with internal and external factors, change and change management), and you'll undertake a critical literature review inspired by your current workplace or professional practice.

We don't want you to waste time going over skills or subjects you are already proficient in. Our four foundation units give you a solid grounding in the basic principles of business and management, like accounting, marketing and organisational behaviour. If you have a relevant undergraduate degree, or five years of relevant work experience, you could receive foundation units as advanced standing and complete the program in just two years. Or in under two years if you have a relevant higher qualification. If you want to build the foundations of your business knowledge, take the full program and you can still complete in less than three years.

UNITS (with advanced standing for foundation units)

• Entrepreneurship and Marketing
• Project Management
• Finance for Managers
• Corporate Governance for Managers
• Leading and Managing People
• Managing Information Systems
• Strategy and Case Analysis

Global Business Specialisation units:

• Graduate Studies Project (double weight unit)
• Strategic Health Management
• Clinical Leaders as Innovators

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for entry into the Master of Business Administration, you must: - demonstrate your professional standing. You should either have a bachelors degree (or a similar qualification) from a university, or have other experience that we regard as equivalent to a degree - be proficient in English.

ONLINE LEARNING
SCU has developed this course specifically for busy working professionals. We want you to earn your masters without disrupting your career, family, or life, so our model is flexible. It's 100% online, and you can begin at any of six different times throughout the year. You can take one unit at a time.

Each study period lasts seven weeks, commencing in February, April, June, August, October and December. You can start when it suits you, power through six units a year and complete in two years, or skip a study period if life or work demand your full attention.

All content is delivered online via our smart, collaborative web environment that you can access on mobile devices and desktop, from anywhere with an internet connection. You'll be in classes with people just like you, and be taught by Southern Cross University's highly qualified industry professionals.