Course details

Summary

This qualification is designed to apply an advanced and discursive body of knowledge to your applied management knowledge and gives you the skills to keep current.

You’ll gain specialised business knowledge and skills while building on existing qualifications and experience, resulting in a sophisticated understanding, and professional competence and leadership skills in modern business and management.

The programme will further develop your critical thinking skills and ability to lead and influence businesses and organisations for a future of commercial, community, and environmental sustainability.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management is a Level 8 programme of 120 credits at levels 7 and 8, with at least 75 credits at level 8, which enables students who have completed a bachelor degree in business or similar to achieve a postgraduate level qualification in the applied management area.

The programme can be completed in 12 months full-time, depending on the student’s previous study and experience, and specific course preferences. It can act as an entry point into the master’s degree for those who don’t initially meet the entry requirement, and need to demonstrate their ability to study at a postgraduate level. Alternatively, students who initially enrolled in the master’s degree and are not in a position to complete it, can transfer applicable courses to the postgraduate diploma for the purposes of qualification completion.

Career Opportunities & Outcomes

The Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management qualification enable graduates to be self-employed practitioners, or pursue domestic and/or international professional careers within different types of industries and agencies. These can include the following areas:

• domestic and international markets;
• financial and cost management;
• managing people and businesses;
• understand different cultures and how to do business in a multi-cultural environment;
• strategic planning and strategic management;
• corporate planning;
• managing and controlling different types of technology;
• innovation and entrepreneurial;
• consultancy;
• product and services marketing;
• operations and business in the global world;
• sustainable business, and;
• research in industry and business.

Entry criteria

For the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management, applicants will need to have successfully completed a three year degree in a business discipline or related field.

English Language Requirements

• IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with no band score lower than 6.0
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 590 (with an essay score of 5.5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) score of 79 (with a writing score of 21)
• University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations: CAE or CPE with a score of 176. No less than 169 in each skill.
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) score of 58
• City & Guilds IESOL: C1 Expert with a score of 42
• NZCEL Level 5 Academic