Queensland University of Technology
Executive Master of Business Administration
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 23 months
- Course Type: Master's
Enhance your leadership journey and achieve new career and personal milestones.
Course overview
The Executive MBA (EMBA) is designed to build your influence and elevate your leadership. What sets it apart from standard MBAs is that it’s specifically designed for executives with 10 or more years of industry experience.
Developed in collaboration with industry and delivered by world-class academics, the program blends applied learning with executive-level insight. You’ll build your professional network, study alongside ambitious, like-minded peers and broaden your perspective through global learning experiences.
From your first day in the program, you’ll join a community of senior professionals focused on leadership transformation. The QUT Executive MBA is structured around immersive learning, collaboration and reflection, ensuring that each unit directly connects to your professional context.
The learning environment is designed for executive interaction, is small-group-based and is supported by personalised coaching and mentoring. You’ll engage in dynamic discussions, live case studies and experiential learning activities that allow you to apply insights immediately within your workplace.
Key facts
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What you will study
To graduate from the Executive Master of Business Administration course, you must successfully complete 144 credit points.
The following units are six credit points each.
Building Foundations
- Strategic Management
- Communicating to Influence
- Systems Thinking for Managers
- Economics in Business
- Problem Framing for Creative Action
- Accounting for Decision Making
- Personal Leadership and Change
- Data Analysis and Decision Making
Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making
- Marketing Strategically
- Understanding and Leading Others
- Business Law
- Financial Management
- Business Leadership Practicum
- Managing Technological Innovation
- Global Leadership and Complexity
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Corporate Governance and Accountability
Entry requirements
To be eligible for admission to the course, you must have the following requirements:
- A recognised bachelor's degree in any discipline with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.50 (on QUT's 7-point scale).
- A minimum of five years of full-time post degree work experience with minimum of three years of relevant professional work experience and two years minimum of supervisory/management experience.
You must also submit responses to the following mandatory reflective questions:
- Motivation to complete the QUT MBA.
- Intended contribution to the cohort.
- Work/life/study balance strategy.
- Current leadership philosophy.
Work experience
Relevant work experience indicates an applicant's capacity to contribute to workshop discussion and the wider student body. To enable the university to assess your work experience, a current curriculum vitae providing details of your roles, responsibilities and achievements is required.
Additional entry requirements
You may be required to attend an interview with the MBA Director or nominee.
Recognition of Prior Learning
You may be able to have your past studies or work experience count as credit towards your QUT course. QUT call this 'advanced standing'. That means you might not have to complete all the units in your course structure. You may be able to graduate sooner. Exemptions are assessed individually – talk to QUT's Course Consultant for more information.
Outcomes
Whether you aim to accelerate your career and move into senior management or executive positions, transition to a new industry, or launch your own venture, the QUT Executive MBA equips you with the strategic mindset, leadership skills and industry insights to make it happen.
Learning outcomes
- Develop advanced leadership skills, including strategic thinking, decision-making and leading organisational change.
- Grow global business expertise with an understanding of global markets, cross-cultural management and international business strategy.
- Expand on financial management skills, including financial strategy, corporate finance, business law, business ethics, risk management and investment decision-making.
- Enhance skills in executive communication, negotiation, presenting and building strategic professional networks.
Fees and FEE-HELP
Estimated first-year tuition fee in 2026: $32,000 (domestic full-fee paying place).
All costs are calculated using current rates and are based on a study load of 96 credit points (normally eight units) per year.
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of units studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
You may also need to pay the student services and amenities fee.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.