QUT Master of Business Research

Dominika Zerbe - Deloitte
What I enjoyed most is probably the independence the ability to take a project that I felt passionate about and actually run with it for 18 months. That was a really, that was the best thing I think about the masters degree.

Parisa Mahyari - QUT
I’m doing my masters in business at the moment. And I am working to find out what the effectiveness of marketing communication within the xxx  environment is.

Michel Stubbs - QUT
Currently I’m studying a Research Masters in Accounting. Specifically I’m looking at takeover firms and also different valuation models with regards to it.

Vimal Mehta - QUT
I’ve been working with Qantas for the last 10 years so I’m an airline pilot and I’m just interested in doing a research masters because it enables me to do a directed course of study in an area that I’m interest in rather than a broad-based business degree.

Michel Stubbs
The staff are very helpful. I’m able to do it part time and that enables me to work full time as well as to study part time as well as being able to balance both of them together.

Dominika Zerbe
I chose to study at QUT was because it’s a very well known high teaching standards. And also it is a very well distinguished university in Australia and the world over.

Dominika Zerbe
QUT actually showed me a lot of support in truth. They provided me with really good facilities which was really important at the time. So we got our own office space, telephone; I think also providing me with the opportunity to go to conferences and do a bit of  travelling was fantastic.

Michel Stubbs
QUT has a number of  benefits. One is that it’s in the city, right next the Botanical Gardens. And so it’s a beautiful campus.

Parisa Mahyari
The staff are very very friendly here. And they are really helpful and also they are very knowledgeable and also they are knowledge is very up to date.

Dominika Zerbe
There are actually a lot of options in terms of funding and scholarships to do a Research Masters. To do any degree at QUT. Thankfully I didn’t have to pay anything. The government covered all of my costs and QUT covered all the other things such as desk, allocation, my telephone costs and anything else that I needed in terms of my office equipment that I needed to get through my research.

Vimal Mehta
The admission process for a Research Masters involves meeting the course pre-requisites which generally are, means that you have an undergraduate degree in the area that you’re studying. Having completed that and provided that you have a high enough GPA the next step is putting in a research proposal in an area which you think would be worthy of further study. If that is deemed suitable by the faculty then funding is available from the government to complete a research masters or PHD.

Dominika Zerbe
When I finished at Deloitte  actually approached me directly and wanted to hire me to work  in the area which I wrote my thesis on. So that was really fantastic. Without that degree I would never had got that job and I certainly wouldn’t  be where I am at the moment.

QUT Master of Business Administration - MBA

Lindsay MacDonald - Rio Tinto
Currently, MBA Student at QUT. I’ve been here for 2 years.  I’ve got another year to go. At the same time I work at Rio Tinto as a strategic sourcing specialist in procurement.

Brad Harker - EB Games
I finished my MBA about 2 years ago. I have been doing it for about 5 years. I started it when I was just a field manager at EB Games and I had about 10 stores that I was responsible for and through the course of doing my MBA I am now in charge of 400 stores.

Dr Amanda Gudmundsson
The Masters of Business Administration Program or the MBA as it is commonly known is designed predominantly for people who are working. They’ve got a professional background. And what they’re looking for now is the opportunity to enhance their career. Maybe changing career direction slightly so the admission requirements are that we’ve got people coming in with some professional or managerial experience.

Phillip Grey - GS Aero
I was working at Boeing Australia when I started an MBA. I was at that point in my career I think, where I was a team leader as well as much in the technical side. I was at a cross roads as to which way to go, stay where I was or move into management. And that’s when I really started to look at the MBA.

Brad Harker
When I actually started to do the actual course I just enjoyed it. I loved it, I enjoyed going there, I loved the people the diversity the people that I could communicate with while I was doing the course just made it fun.
 
Dr Amanda Gudmundsson
The way in which the BGSB delivers our program, because we have six weeks teaching periods, we’re actually able to provide students with a much broader cross section of the business community. So we move not just from the standard business disciplines of marketing and economics and HR which you would expect to see. We also include things such as business planning, corporate governance, entrepreneur ship as standard within our MBA program. So it gives our candidates a much richer breadth of the business world.

Phillip Grey
The people that you meet and the contacts that you make, that’s really a great side to the MBA. Lawyers, accounts CFO’s and all of these different grounds. It’s amazing what door open for you as a result of meeting these very different people from very different walks of life.

Brad Harker
They offer just incredible flexibility, you know for the whole year you can study or if you need to stop of start at any point through that year you can and you can resume. So if your work commitments get really tiring or exhausting it’s flexible at QUT.

I find I can apply things straight away and I think there is evidence from people who are finished, when you look around Brisbane and the business environment and I think it’s evident that it’s valuable.

I would recommend to anyone that’s out there that’s looking into advance their career, improve their academic understanding of business to boost your salary. The MBA at QUT is the way you can do that.

QUT Bachelor of Business - Finance

Gavin Edgely - QUT
I really enjoy studying finance as a subject, as a major here at QUT because I get to see and understand better the way that the world works. I hear about stocks and bonds and everything that’s going on in financial markets and all those boring bits at the back of the newspaper that no one ever reads, but once you’re actually studying it and have a better understanding of it I really feel as though I’ll be set once I get to business and kick start my career.

Anita Terhorst – Queensland Rail Network
I started at QR a year and a half ago as a commercial officer. I work in the freight systems department of QR Network. A lot of my work involves dealing with revenue in freight systems.

Professor Tim Robinson
So finance is a huge industry; it’s growing year after year. It’s had a bit of a set back with the global financial crisis but it’s one of the industries that’s got a great future. If people are interested in share markets, stock markets, international finance, those sorts of things. If they want to work in tall buildings in Eagle Street or Martin Place or New York or London then the finance degree’s what they want to think about.

Peter Whelan
A key resource at the school is the securities dealing room. This dealing room, with its real time data, enables students to simulate a trading situation. It also enables them to get access to high quality data for uses in assignments and projects. This resource is very rare in an Australian context.

Anita Terhorst – Queensland Rail Network
I think what I enjoyed most studying at QUT was just the resources available. Lecturers were always keeping an eye out for the students. I actually had a lecturer come to me and goes ‘oh I think you should apply for this ALCAM program’ and I was like ‘oh ok’. You know, they keep an eye out for you.

Gavin Edgely - QUT
It’s particularly easy going to uni at QUT here at Gardens Point. Really centrally located right in the middle of the city, and probably the best thing about that is it’s easy for me to go to work afterwards here in the city or even if you’re going to go out with mates for a bite to eat up at Queens St or go shopping or anything like that. It’s really a cool place to be.

Peter Whelan
The key features of the QUT course is the employability of graduates at the end of it. So whilst they learn a lot of material on the way through, a lot of that material is very practical and their employment prospects are excellent at the end of that time.

Anita Terhorst – Queensland Rail Network
A lot of times in lectures and tutorials they made sure that the examples they used, they were from real like examples so when I got out into the workforce I wasn’t scared or worried - like a lot of graduates I find are - to know what I’m doing, getting there, and straight away I could apply what I’d learnt.

Gavin Edgely - QUT
I’ve had some particularly interesting finance lecturers within my degree. A few of the lectures that have really hit home to me have been the ones that have had stories practically applied to them. I really remember the course work and it’s put in context for me. And when it’s done like that I really feel as though I’m not just cramming for an exam, I’m learning as part of my degree so that I can apply it through my career and the rest of my life.

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