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University of Tasmania

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Graduate Diploma in Business Start-Up

  • Graduate Diploma

Become a future business leader with life-long skills in management, marketing, and accounting. The Graduate Diploma in Business Start-up offers students the opportunity to complete a postgraduate qualification in Business with a focus on leading innovation and entrepreneurship.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 - 3 years full-time
Course Code
C6E, 104817E
Study Mode
Online, In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$35,950 per year / $35,950 total

About this course

Become a future business leader with life-long skills in management, marketing, and accounting.

The Graduate Diploma in Business Start-up offers students the opportunity to complete a postgraduate qualification in Business with a focus on leading innovation and entrepreneurship. Studying the Business Startup program equips the graduate with the tools and language needed to succeed as a business leader and to think with an entrepreneurial mindset.

The Graduate Diploma in Business Start-up is a 12 month full-time or part-time equivalent course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. The course is full fee-paying, which means that you will be charged at the full fee-paying rate listed for each unit.

This course can also be taken as a pathway to future MBA studies.

Entry requirements

For entry to this course, you need to have:

  • an undergraduate degree or above in any discipline, or equivalent, from an approved tertiary institution; or
  • qualifications, relevant work experience or other special circumstances, as approved by the Executive Dean or delegated authority.

International students must provide one of the following:

  • UTASAccess Level 7 with a minimum overall score of 60% and no individual skill below 60%; or
  • IELTS with an overall Band of 6 and no Band less than 6; or
  • TOEFL (iBT) overall score of 72 (no individual skill must be lower than Reading 16; Listening 16; Speaking 18; and, Writing 22); or
  • provide evidence that you have studied for 2 years full-time with English as the sole medium of instruction and examination.

These tests must not be more than 24 months old.

Study locations

Distance Hobart

Hobart

Online

What you will learn

CLO1Critically evaluate foundational and contemporary management and entrepreneurship theories, principles and processes and reflect on their efficacy in current practice.
CLO2Explain and critique theoretical propositions, methodologies and conclusions and apply these to complex management problems and business ideas to diverse audiences.
CLO3Identify and evaluate business opportunities for enabling innovative solutions in an enterprise context.

Course structure

Students undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Business Start-up complete 100 credit points of core units.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Business & Management courses at University of Tasmania.
74.3%
Overall satisfaction
76%
Skill scale
65.2%
Teaching scale
87.9%
Employed full-time
$109k
Average salary