Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a PNGNQF Level 9 postgraduate program designed to develop advanced leadership, management, and strategic decision-making skills. Delivered part-time over two years, the program requires 180 credit points and combines core business disciplines with elective specializations in General Management, Accounting and Finance, or Entrepreneurship. Students gain expertise in leadership, economics, finance, marketing, human resource management, strategy, and business law, preparing them for senior management and leadership roles across a wide range of industries.
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Accounting Foundations
Study Period: Semester OneUnit code: MB607
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
This unit is designed to equip students to analyse economic events and to prepare financial records and reports based on these events. -
Ethical Leadership
Study Period: Semester OneUnit code: MB639
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
This unit equips students to think ethically. Making good business decisions requires sensitivity to ethical issues and a practical method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact on the choice of a course of action in any organization. -
Organizational Behaviour
Study Period: Semester OneUnit code: MB615
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
Key topics will include individual factors, such as personality and perception; organizational processes, such as performance practices, communication, conflict and negotiation management; and contextual issues, such organizational culture and change.
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Business Economics
Study Period: Semester TwoUnit code: MB618
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
The focus is firmly on applying economic principles to the real world of business. The unit equips participants with key economic concepts, issues and techniques that are relevant in the needs of the day to-day running of any business. -
Management Accounting
Study Period: Semester TwoUnit code: MB610
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
Management accounting systems in organisations provide appropriate information for the costing of products and services such as support functions – planning, controlling, evaluation, continuous improvement, and decision-making.
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Business Law
Study Period: Semester ThreeUnit code: MB617
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
The unit covers the principles or requirements of PNG business law that those who hold or will hold leadership positions in management would need to have a working knowledge of. -
Elective Unit 1
Study Period: Semester ThreeUnit code: Student to select from elective units
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port MoresbyMBA Elective Units
(Note: Research Units are to be taken if articulating)Management Stream Accounting and Finance Stream Entrepreneurship Stream MB649
Quantitative Analysis for ManagementMB629
Corporate AccountingMB645
Theory & Practice of EntrepreneurshipMB613
Marketing ManagementMB631
PNG TaxationMB646
Creativity & Innovation & Design Thinking for EnterpriseMB619
Human Resource ManagementMB630
Accounting TheoryMB647
Feasibility Analysis & Project ManagementMB621
Strategic ManagementMB637
Investment ManagementMB648
Business Management -
Elective Unit 2
Study Period: Semester ThreeStudy Period: Semester Three
Unit code: Student to select from elective units
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port MoresbyMBA Elective Units
(Note: Research Units are to be taken if articulating)Management Stream Accounting and Finance Stream Entrepreneurship Stream MB649
Quantitative
Analysis for
ManagementMB629
Corporate
AccountingMB645 Theory & Practice of Entrepreneurship MB613
Marketing
ManagementMB631 PNG Taxation MB646 Creativity & Innovation & Design Thinking for
EnterpriseMB619 Human
Resource
ManagementMB630
Accounting
TheoryMB647 Feasibility Analysis & Project Management MB621 Strategic
ManagementMB637
Investment
ManagementMB648 Business Management
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Cross Culture Management
Study Period: Semester FourUnit code: M620
Credit Points: 15
Campus: Port Moresby
The unit considers the issues and problems of managing in different cultures, in particular at the 'people problems' that invariably arise in international business relationships. -
Elective Unit 1
Study Period: Semester FourUnit code: Student to select from elective units
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port MoresbyMBA Elective Units
(Note: Research Units are to be taken if articulating)Management
StreamAccounting and Finance Stream Entrepreneurship
StreamMB649
Quantitative
Analysis for
ManagementMB629
Corporate
AccountingMB645 Theory & Practice of Entrepreneurship MB613
Marketing
ManagementMB631 PNG Taxation MB646 Creativity & Innovation & Design Thinking for
EnterpriseMB619 Human
Resource
ManagementMB630
Accounting
TheoryMB647 Feasibility Analysis & Project Management MB621 Strategic
ManagementMB637
Investment
ManagementMB648 Business Management -
Elective Unit 2
Study Period: Semester FourUnit code: Student to select from elective units
Credit Point: 15
Campus: Port MoresbyMBA Elective Units
(Note: Research Units are to be taken if articulating)Management Stream Accounting and Finance Stream Entrepreneurship Stream MB649
Quantitative
Analysis for
ManagementMB629
Corporate
AccountingMB645 Theory & Practice of Entrepreneurship MB613
Marketing
ManagementMB631 PNG Taxation MB646 Creativity & Innovation & Design Thinking for
EnterpriseMB619 Human
Resource
ManagementMB630
Accounting
TheoryMB647 Feasibility Analysis & Project Management MB621 Strategic
ManagementMB637
Investment
ManagementMB648 Business Management
Career opportunities and pathways for graduates.
While most of the students are already employed, the program provides a wide range of career opportunities and provides pathways to higher degree studies.
Entry Requirement
• Applicants should hold a bachelor’s degree.
• Have at least three years’ relevant work experience or self-employment.
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