Master of Indigenous Business Leadership

Why study the Master of Indigenous Business Leadership (MIBL)?

1. Develop your leadership skills and understanding: You’ll gain insights about your own leadership and business practices and learn how to respond to the challenges facing Indigenous business leaders.
2. Flexible attendance mode: A mix of online and in-person learning allows for a diverse student cohort from across Australia, providing valuable opportunities to learn from one another while balancing work and family commitments.
3. Market-driven: Facilitated by a global team of Indigenous academics, this online program offers distinctive, intensively taught, market-driven subjects that are empirically informed, introducing Indigenous students to key issues, challenges, and theories at the intersection of enterprise and leadership theory and practice.
4. Scholarships and future study pathways: A 100 per cent fee remission is available for all successful candidates through the Business and Economics Indigenous Graduate Scholarship.

What is it about?

The subjects in this course adopt an interdisciplinary, international, and evidence-based approach, responding to the growing and complex challenges facing Indigenous business leaders working across for profit, not for profit, public, community and social enterprise sectors.

Subjects are taught by leading global Indigenous academics in the fields of human resources, commercialisation, leadership, analytics, accounting, economics, research, finance, marketing, and research. Indigenous students from across Australia will be provided with opportunities to work collaboratively to address the increasing complexity and opportunities encountered across the Indigenous enterprise landscape with a key focus on the practice of Indigenous leadership.

The course builds on the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed to be available to Indigenous business owners, professionals, and managers at differing stages of their careers, including graduates, established practitioners and those seeking to move in new directions with relevant enterprise experience. Graduates who complete the research pathway may be eligible for higher research degrees within Australian universities.

Don't meet the prerequisite subject requirements?

You may have the option to enrol in specific single subjects through the University's Community Access Program, even if you are not enrolled in a course. Completing these prerequisite subjects may qualify you for entry into this course. This option is not available to student visa holders or applicants. Learn more about single subject study.

English language requirements

All applicants to the University of Melbourne must satisfy the English language requirements. This may be achieved in a number of ways, including recognised previous study taught and assessed entirely in English or an approved English language test. If you are from a non-English speaking background, the required standard of English for this degree is one of the following English proficiency test scores:

• English language test score requirements

• If you need to undertake an English language test, you must meet one of the scores* below:

  IELTS

  6.5

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  with no band less than 6.0

  TOEFL

  79+

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  with writing 21; speaking 18; reading 13; listening 13

  PEARSON

  64+

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  with no communicative skill below 60

  CAMBRIDGE

  176+

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  with no skill less than 169

  *Accepted tests: IELTS (Academic English Only); TOEFL Internet-based test; Pearson Test of English Academic; Cambridge English: Advanced/Certificate of Advanced English (CAE). If a test displays N/A, it means it is not accepted for this course.

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