Graduate Certificate of Business
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Business |
| Deakin course code | M556 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Business and Law |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Online | Yes |
| Duration | 0.5 year full-time or part-time equivalent |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2025 This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 2 2025 Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| CRICOS course code | 117004B Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Fees and charges
Course overview
This highly flexible course is for students with a degree in any field, who want to refine their business skills and industry expertise.
Advance your career with a graduate certificate from a top 3 business school in Victoria* that exposes you to the key areas that impact business today. You will learn the principles underpinning social responsibility, business technology, financial systems, innovation and entrepreneurship, and how each of these areas influence revenue and business success.
Gain the skills to tackle the business challenges of tomorrow
Customise your studies to match your unique career goals by selecting from a wide range of electives, all while earning a business qualification valued by employers. Study online or at Burwood and graduate ahead of the curve with a business degree that prepares you for the future.
Want to keep your options open for further study? This course provides a direct pathway to the Master of Business.
*AFR BOSS Best Business Schools 2024
Indicative student workload
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include lectures, seminars, online interactions, or professional experiences for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Career opportunities
Completing a Graduate Certificate of Business opens up opportunities for employment in a diverse range of sectors. Apply your knowledge of business and practical experience to elevate your career in the industry of your choice.
Participation requirements
Units in this course may have participation requirements that include compulsory placements, work-based training, community-based learning or collaborative research training arrangements.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Mandatory student checks
Units which contain work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, working with children check or other check. These requirements will be detailed in unit guides upon enrolment.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Develop core knowledge of fundamental business principles and concepts and apply this in contemporary business contexts. |
| Communication | Demonstrate business communication techniques to convey complex business concepts. |
| Digital literacy | Not explicitly assessed as a learning outcome in this award. |
| Critical thinking | Critically analyse a range of complex business related information to make informed business decisions. |
| Problem solving | Apply problem solving skills and techniques to analyse solutions and develop informed recommendations to real-world business problems. |
| Self-management | Not explicitly assessed as a learning outcome in this award. |
| Teamwork | Not explicitly assessed as a learning outcome in this award. |
| Global citizenship | Not explicitly assessed as a learning outcome in this award. |
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Business students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate.
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 3 credit points of course elective units
- 1 credit point of open elective units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Compulsory 0-credit point units
To be completed in the first trimester of study:-
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin |
Course elective units
Students must complete a minimum of three (3) credit points of course electives from the following:
| MPP710 | Environmental Sustainability for Business |
| MPE701 | Information Technology, Markets and Business Strategy |
| MAA702 | Financial Interpretation |
| MMM760 | Small Business Management |
Open elective units
One (1) credit point of open elective which may be chosen from:
• A unit that has not been attempted from the list above
• Other postgraduate units offered by the University (subject to eligibility)
• Up to two (2) Deakin stackable short courses equal to 1 credit point (0.5cp microcredentials)
Work experience
This course does not require students to complete compulsory work integrated learning units.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.