Programme overview
The Postgraduate Diploma in Business provides you with a broad range of skills to take your business accumen and your career to the next level. Explore the tools to improve business performance and practice, and develop a sound knowledge of business strategy and processes, relationships in business organisations, and the business environment. You gain an understanding of the nature of the new business environment in which you'll be working.
Highlights
- Developed with input from national and international business leaders
- A multi-disciplinary perspective
- Flexibility: select those courses that are most relevant to your business career. Choose from a number of electives, covering business communication, information technology, business management, marketing, and organisational theory and behaviour
- Highly qualified staff with strong links to the business community
- Classes are a mixture of weekly, weekend, evening and distance learning formats
- Cross-credits towards the Master of Business
What next?
Once you've successfully completed this programme, you could continue your studies with the Master of Business
Admission requirements
For this programme, you will need the following:
1. A recognised Bachelor's degree in the same or similar discipline, with a minimum of one year appropriate work experience; OR
2. A recognised Bachelor's degree in an unrelated discipline, or equivalent, with a minimum of three years of appropriate work experience AND demonstrate an ability to succeed in the programme by providing:
- Recommendations from employers or professional colleagues; and
- Evidence of outcomes in the discipline work environment.
3. Able to contribute to group learning outside of class time.
4. 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 in English (4 in reading, 4 in writing).
5. If English is your second language, you are required to have one or more of the following:
- Have achieved NCEA Level 3 and New Zealand University entrance
- Be able to provide evidence you satisfy our criteria for existing English proficiency
- Have achieved at least one English proficiency outcome in the last two years
Don't meet the requirements? We also accept:
- Provide sufficient evidence to be eligible for special admission.
For more information download the programme regulations:
Courses and timetables
For more details on the courses, please click on the course names below. Please note that our systems are updating with new course timetable information for 2020; please check back again soon.
| Courses | Credits | Aim |
|---|---|---|
| Business and Organisational Strategy (APMG8099) | 30 credits (0.25 EFTS) | This course of study provides students with an enhanced capability to analyse the impacts of the global business environment on the development and implementation of strategy by small and medium business enterprises. It aims to develop the capabilities necessary for those small to medium business organisations to successfully compete in the contemporary business environment. |
| Organisations and Leadership (APMG8100) | 30 credits (0.25 EFTS) | This course of study enables students to develop a critical view of organisations and their structure and functioning as well as the management of people in organisational contexts. It aims to develop generic capabilities for leadership in business contexts. |
