Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong.

Sydney Business School
Sydney, Wollongong
An Independent Faculty of the University of Wollongong

The SBS MBA is designed to promote your career development. You will be studying alongside students from more than 50 countries, giving you a truly international culture and focus that will benefit you as you progress through your business career.

Our alumni find careers that take them all around the world. The impact that studying for an MBA has on your career depends upon your past experiences, your motivation to succeed and your desire to never stop learning. We provide a stimulating learning environment using a blend of teaching methodologies that focus on Australian, Asian and global business issues.

The full-time MBA program comprises 8 core and 4 elective units, which are structured across a broad range of management and business themes. Included in the SBS MBA are six one day Master Classes which focus on current issues in business. In addition, students have the opportunity to participate in a number of formal exchange programs or can attend the annual off-shore Asian Intensive School for Advanced Management (AISAM) Program, offered in Penang, Malaysia. Full time students are encouraged to undertake the Certificate in Professional Development program which provides the necessary career management skills to assist with the transition to full-time employment. This program is complimentary to all students.

The School's faculty is highly qualified with excellent teaching and research skills and industry experience. Students benefit from on-line teaching and learning resources and a dedicated librarian to assist in accessing our comprehensive on-line library resources and databases.

Students can also choose to articulate into the MBA (Advanced) program which comprises four units of additional specialisation - a further six months full time study.

Awards:

Sydney Business School is ranked by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds Limited) in the top 200 business schools in the world.

The Times Higher Education Supplement and the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities both place the University of Wollongong in the top 2% of universities in the world.

The 2010 Good Universities Guide reaffirms UOW's long standing position as one of the country’s leading research institutions and a place where students not only experience a five-star educational experience but a five-star chance of gaining a job with a top salary at the end of their degree.

Under the Guide’s ranking system, only the top 20% of universities can be awarded a five-star rating in any one category. UOW received five stars in six key areas that rate our graduates’ satisfaction with the breadth of skills they learn while studying with us:
1) Getting a Job
2) Positive Graduate Outcomes
3) Graduate Starting Salary
4) Research Intensivity
5) Graduate Satisfaction
6) Generic Skills

The University of Wollongong was rated first for overall satisfaction among Australian university students in the independent Sweeney Research Group’s 2009 ‘Uni Student Report’.