Overview

Master of Business

Introduction

The Master of Business (MBus) provides you with broad business skills and expertise as part of UC's Business Taught Masters programme.

The degree explores business basics as well as a specialist major focus, and includes project opportunities through our industry contacts to give you practical experience in applying your commercial knowledge.

Open to students from any study background, the MBus offers you the chance to upskill, or a pathway for those looking to newly enter the business world.

Master of Business

Why study a Master of Business at UC?

Major subjects in the Master of Business target key areas of end-to-end business organisation, giving our graduates diversified work-focused skills, and making them highly employable.
The programme offers opportunities to develop real-world business experience through consulting projects with local industry.
A strong focus on transferable skills and the ability to solve problems will prepare you to meet the many challenges of a dynamic and uncertain world.
The Business Taught Masters programme offers great support and a range of opportunities to help prepare students, including orientation, pastoral care services, career development seminars, and additional certification opportunities that will support you in realising your career goals.
Ōtautahi Christchurch is home to a number of start-up companies searching for skilled graduates from UC.
Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School is accredited by AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS; only one percent of business schools in the world have attained all three.

Master of Business

Entry requirements

Any bachelor's degree, with at least a B Grade Point Average in your 300-level courses, is required to enrol (or other qualifications of an equivalent standard).

If English is your additional language, you are also required to meet UC's English language requirements.

For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Master of Business or use the admission requirements checker.

How to apply

You can apply online at myUC.

See Admission and enrolment for all information on enrolling at UC.

Master of Business

How do I plan my degree?

The Master of Business is made up of 180 points. This is comprised of four compulsory courses in general business knowledge (60 points), courses towards a major subject (75 points), and project-based courses (45 points, with at least 30 points of these in the major subject area).

Study can begin in February or July (depending on your chosen major), and will take up to 17 months full-time or 4 years part-time. Some courses in the programme are also available for study online.

Financial Management begins in February only. Management and Marketing majors can be started in February or July.

For full requirements, see the Regulations for the Master of Business.

Master of Business

Subjects and courses

Compulsory courses

Majors

You can complete the MBus with one of the following majors:

Financial Management

(February-only start)

UC's Financial Management major has been acknowledged as incorporating at least 70 percent of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. The programme positions you to obtain Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, which has become the most respected and recognised investment credential in the world.

MFIN600 CFA Ethics Programme (0-point course)
MFIN601 Corporate Finance
MFIN602 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
MFIN603 Financial Management
MBAZ605 Business Law
Four courses chosen from these options

Management

MBAZ605 Business Law
MBUS601 Marketing
MBUS602 Leadership
MBUS603 Managing People and Performance
MBAZ672 Evidence Based Human Resource Management OR MBAZ680 Research Project
One course chosen from these options

Marketing

Elective courses

Any remaining points are chosen from the following:

MBAZ673 Innovation (15 points)
MBAZ674 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (15 points)
MFIN671 Business in New Zealand (15 points)
MFIN672 Cases in Financial and Management Accounting (15 points)
MFIN673 Portfolio Management (15 points)
MFIN674 Financial Decision Making (15 points)

15 points from the elective courses may be substituted with options in the MBIS Schedule C (Group 2) or MPA Schedule C (Group 2).

Domestic students

2024 tuition fee estimate: $12,791 (180 points)
2025 tuition fee estimate: $13,559 (180 points)

International students

2024 Special Programme Fee: $52,500 (180 points)
2025 Special Programme Fee: $54,600 (180 points)

Master of Business

Career opportunities

This degree programme is designed to prepare graduates for roles in commercial industries, from entry-level through to upper management. Our graduates offer diverse business experience, with marketing and management often the most sought-after skills by today's employers, locally and globally.

Depending on their major, graduates will go onto roles in areas such as operations management, consulting, investment and financial analysis, human resources, advertising, and marketing across a range of different organisations.

You can also start a business of your own with the broad and specialist skills you learn in this qualification.

Useful information:

Read what other UC postgraduate students have gone on to achieve in their studies and careers in our student stories.
Te Rōpū Rapuara | UC Careers can help you to achieve the career you want, connect with employers, or find a job.
For research into career destinations by qualification, visit Te Pōkai Tara | Universities New Zealand website.
Find out more about what can you do with a degree from UC.
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