Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration

Elevate your leadership skills with an executive qualification that strengthens your analytical rigour and strategic acumen. Complete your Executive Master of Business Administration (Executive MBA) through intensive study, with structures that are designed to help you balance study, work, and life.

An Executive MBA is an internationally recognised management qualification that sends a message to your professional peers and future employers—about your intellectual ability, professional experience, and executive problem-solving skills to take on leading roles in business and government.

You’ll master tools and models that improve strategic thinking, decision making, and leadership and build powerful professional networks with leading academics, fellow students, and other members of the business community.

Develop practical skills that you can immediately put to use in your professional life, and build a bank of knowledge that will maximise your career potential.

Programme requirements

For this programme you’ll need to:

Complete 180 points

Include eight courses in Part 1:

- EMBA 501

- EMBA 502

- EMBA 503

- EMBA 504

- EMBA 505

- EMBA 506

- EMBA 507

- Either EMBA 508 or EMBA 509

Include further courses worth 60 points in Part 2:

- MMBA 534

- MMBA 571

- Other approved 400 or 500-level courses

Programme requirements

For this programme you’ll need to:

Complete 120 points

Include six courses from EMBA 501-507

Include two further courses from:

- EMBA 501-509

- MMBA 502-565

- MMBA 571-579

Programme requirements

For this programme you’ll need to:

Complete 60 points

Include three courses from EMBA 501-507

Include one further course from:

- EMBA 501-509

- MMBA 502-565

- MMBA 571-579

IELTS (Academic): minimum overall score of 6.5 with no sub-score below 6.0

TOEFL: minimum score of 90 for the internet-based test with a minimum of 20 in writing

Pearson Test of English: minimum score of 58 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 50)

Victoria University of Wellington English for Academic Purpose (EAP) programme: minimum final scores of 4,4,5,5

Cambridge English Qualifications: C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 176 or higher, with each skill score no less than 169

New Zealand Certificates in English Language (NZCEL): Level 5 (Academic)

NZAPA: English New Zealand Accredited Pathway Assessment Level 3 (with no skill lower than Level 2)