Accelerate your career with postgraduate business programmes
If you're a domestic student, we have a broad range of postgraduate study options, including our redesigned online MBA, to suit your level of experience and career goals.
Our programmes are flexibly designed to suit the needs of working professionals, from new graduates to the highly experienced.
All courses are scheduled within quarter-based teaching terms, with many classes scheduled in the evenings, to allow you to study around your work commitments.
Discover more about our study options below.
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Master of Business Administration
180 points, online
Complete your MBA from NZ's top business school and discover what makes it a life-changing experience. Our redesigned, flexible online MBA offers you the chance to collaborate with New Zealand’s most innovative business minds, enhancing your skills and confidence. Our revamped curriculum, including unique courses on Te ao Māori Business and New Zealand’s political/legal landscape, will set you up for success as a strategic leader in the rapidly changing world of business.
Master of Applied Finance
180 points, full-time, quarter-based daytime classes +
Launch your career in corporate finance, investment management, banking and financial consulting. The Master of Applied Finance will help you understand the fundamental theories of finance, learn about the forces shaping our capital markets and gain practical skills to enhance financial decision making.
Specialisations: Marketing, Supply Chain Management, FinTech*
Also available: Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Finance (PGCertAppFin) (60 points).
Master of Business Analytics
180 points, full-time or part-time, quarter-based evening classes+
Keen to solve business challenges using data and technology to influence organisational strategy? The Master of Business Analytics will equip you with specialist knowledge and skills needed to get work-ready for in-demand roles in business analytics, analytical consultancy and management locally and globally.
Specialisations: Marketing, Supply Chain Management, FinTech*
Also available: Postgraduate Certificate in Business Analytics (PGCertBusAn) (60 points).
Master of Business Management
180 points, full-time or part-time, quarter-based evening classes
Ready to take your career to a new direction? Build on your prior qualification from any field and give yourself a competitive career edge. The Master of Business Management is a practitioner-focused masters, which will equip you with advanced business knowledge and skills, strengthen your personal, professional and managerial capabilities, and develop your personal networks.
Specialisations: Digital Marketing, Strategic Management, Human Resource Management*.
Also available: Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management (PGCertBM) (60 points).
Master of Commerce
120 or 180 points, full-time or part-time semester-based classes
If you have a first degree in the same discipline, this masters will enable you to pursue a specialised qualification at an advanced level. It will prepare you for specialist positions in the public and private sector or to pursue further advanced study. You can choose from eight specialisations within this programme.
Our new redesigned 180-point MCom+ offers two smaller research output options alongside the 60-point Dissertation. Students can opt for either the Research Project, which provides further training in research and disciplinary knowledge, or the Consultancy Project, emphasising applied knowledge and professional capabilities relevant for entry into the job market.
The 120-point programme offers a thesis pathway for students with relevant preparatory research experience.
Specialisations: Accounting, Commercial Law, Economics, Finance, Global Management and Innovation (includes Organisation Studies, HRM, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and International Business), Information Systems, Marketing, and Operations and Supply Chain Management.*
Also available: Bridging programmes for students with a prior postgraduate degree aiming to transition into doctoral study and enhance their disciplinary knowledge and research skills.
+Offered from Semester One 2025, subject to regulatory approval.
Postgraduate certificate or diploma
Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Governance (PGCertLdGov)
60 points, part-time, quarter-based classes
Accelerate your knowledge of contemporary perspectives, practices, mindsets and issues related to leadership in a governance context across a range of corporate, public sector, community and indigenous enterprise contexts.
Postgraduate Diploma in Business - Māori Development specialisation (PGDipBus)
120 points, prescribed quarter-based classes over two years
This programme is designed to build on the knowledge and skills of Māori leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, business managers and administrators who are engaged in Māori business development and provides a formal business qualification to contribute at a senior level within a kaupapa Māori framework.
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* Delivery of these specialisations is subject to confirmation and dependent on factors that include student enrolments.