La Trobe's Graduate Diploma in Business Administration will give you the edge your career needs.

Explore the issues facing global businesses and develop lifelong leadership skills. You'll tackle real-world business problems, learning from experienced academics and guest industry lecturers who'll explain the foundations of good corporate governance.

Looking for flexible learning options? This one-year course lets you fit your study around work and lifestyle commitments. You'll keep your career moving forwards, even while you prepare to step up to the next level.

You'll study subjects from La Trobe's prestigious Master of Business Administration (MBA) – an accredited degree, co-designed by leading industry professionals.

Tackle the big issues shaping modern business and develop lifelong networks through our outstanding industry links and global alumni network.

This Graduate Diploma also provides a pathway to our MBA should you decide to further your studies.

You'll learn:

• Responsible leadership and corporate governance
  
  • Understand how to manage people and operations, and achieve ethical and sustainable outcomes.
• Financial management
  
  • Understand financial management policy and application, and how financial management decision-making affects the risk, growth and profitability of firms.
• Business analysis
  
  • Explore how data can shape strategies and inform smarter decision-making.
• Accounting
  
  • Refine your skills in accounting and finance to better analyse business practices.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 8 - Graduate Diploma.

Sample course structure

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.