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Full time / Part time (part time only available for non-Visa students) · Each unit could take between 6 and 10 hours each week of classes, readings and assignments
12 Jan 2026 | 9 Mar 2026 | 04 May 2026 | 29 Jun 2026 | 24 Aug 2026 | 19 Oct 2026
Course Overview
Where You Can Study
157-161 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, Sydney 2000
157-161, Gloucester St, The Rocks,, Sydney, NSW 2000
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Career & Study Pathways
Quality & Recognition
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AccreditedCourse Content
Strategic Marketing
Engage with the 'language of marketing'—a toolkit for decision-making and strategic thinking, essential for steering organizations towards their goals. Learn to create and communicate value, manage customer relationships effectively, and ensure the sustainability of business practices.
Business Finance
Master financial decision-making to optimize stakeholder wealth. Delve into investment strategies, financing, and dividend decisions, with a focus on shareholder value. Explore time value of money, security valuation, capital budgeting, and more.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Enhance organizational strategy and customer experience with effective logistics and supply chain management. Learn to capture market opportunities and reduce operational costs through a deeper understanding.
Decision Making
Examine how organisations gather and generate multiple forms of information, and how this information is analysed and converted into useful knowledge via judgement. Drawing on the insights of psychology, sociology and management science, learn about the many facets of good judgment associated with decision-making.
Organisational Behaviour
Gain appreciation, knowledge, and skills to deal with the complexities of organisations. Build understanding with a focus on the behaviour of the individual. Critically analyse behaviour at the group level including the dynamics of group and team behaviour, communication, politics, and leadership.
Leading and Managing Fundamentals
Explore the differences and similarities of leadership and management functions based on theoretical and research literature. Examine the theoretical and practical aspects of leadership and interact with case studies and different theories and frameworks.
Investment Management
Understand the theory and then apply the principles of investment management. Examine the principles, theoretical concepts and practice of investment analysis, and investment and portfolio decision-making.
Corporate Finance
Learn to create shareholder value, with due consideration given to the role of corporate finance within the broader context of corporate governance. Gain a comprehensive introduction to corporate financial management.
Financial Analytics
Investigate the practical application of financial analytic modelling using appropriate modelling tools including spreadsheets. Explore both modelling and financial theory, including computer modelling methodology, activity-based costing, and shareholder value analysis.
Management and Financial Accounting
Develop the skills, terminology and knowledge in the context of more sophisticated accounting issues. Focus on the financing of the organisation, and on the interpretation of statements that form the output of financial accounting.
Business Information Systems
Evaluate the strategic and operational roles of information systems in organisations. Critically analyse the purpose, components, and challenges related to common business information systems.
Knowledge Management
Examine the fundamentals of managing knowledge and intellectual capital, understanding some of the measurement issues, processes and cycles involved in their management.
Agile Methodology
Learn and practise how to apply agile principles and practice requirements, analysis and scrum concepts while providing software solutions. Analyse customer requirements using agile-based software engineering practices.
Project Management
Examine the fundamental principles, strategies and approaches used by project managers. Explore the stages of project management from initial project selection through to final closure.
Strategic Leadership
Become familiar with various strategic leadership theoretical frameworks, models, key concepts and tools to analyse organisational strategies and make suggested improvements and strategic initiatives.
Managing Corporate Sustainability
Identify the importance of sustainability to a variety of organisations and develop the skills and tools to create realistic sustainable plans based on the risks and opportunities that exist.
Organisational Change Management
Challenge perspectives of organisational change in view of the models and theories in the course. Critically evaluate the current literature, theories and models of organisational change and leadership.
Events Management
Develop the skills and knowledge necessary to both plan and deliver events of various types and scales. Learn to manage a special kind of project – the event – including the initiation, planning, implementation, evaluation, and legacy management.
Integrated Marketing Communications
Understand how companies carefully integrate and coordinate their many communications channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message.
Sustainable Tourism Operations
Examine a holistic approach towards tourism and its management, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. Identify and analyse the general management principles and systems that apply to all the various types of sustainable tourism and hospitality operations.
Hospitality Management
Work towards advancement in making guests feel welcome, making things work for guests, and balancing service quality and continuity with profitability. Gain specialist skills and knowledge while understanding the unique aspects of the tourism and hospitality sector.
Common Questions
The total tuition fee for the Graduate Diploma of Business Administration is $14,000, charged at $1,750 per unit for the 2026 academic year. Fees are subject to review on an annual basis.
Yes. It is not necessary to have a Bachelor Degree as a prerequisite if you have relevant professional, supervisory or managerial work experience. You may be eligible if you hold an Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree (AQF Level 6) with at least three years of relevant work experience, or if you have at least five years of relevant professional experience in a related field without a formal qualification.
Yes. VIT provides multiple exit qualifications for maximum flexibility. Students who successfully complete 24 credit points are eligible for a Graduate Certificate of Business Administration, while completing 48 credit points satisfies the requirements for the full Graduate Diploma of Business Administration.
The Graduate Diploma of Business Administration comprises 4 terms full-time, with 6 core units and 2 elective units. A total of 48 credit points will satisfy the requirements for qualification. Applicants with relevant prior study or professional experience may be granted Advanced Standing/Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), which can reduce the number of units required and the overall duration of the course. Students must complete at least 50% of units at VIT in order to qualify for a VIT award.
You can meet VIT's English language requirement in several ways: by completing previous studies in English (such as Year 12 in an English-speaking country or an AQF Level 5 or higher qualification taught in English), by achieving an IELTS Academic score of Overall 6.5 with no band below 6.0 (or equivalent in another approved test), by completing an approved ELICOS program, through professional work experience in a role requiring English communication skills (with an interview required), or through other verified evidence of English proficiency.
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