UTS Business School launches new MBA degree

UTS Business School’s new Advanced MBA will be flexible and embedded with industry, the university says.

UTS’s Frank Gehry-designed Business School, home of the new Advanced MBA degree.

In today’s Higher Ed Daily Brief: new MBA degree at UTS, health hub in northern Melbourne

New one year MBA

UTS will launch its long awaited one year MBA in January 2019, and says that industry will be embedded in the program and will immerse students in live projects where they solve real business problems.

Called the Advanced MBA, it will also use academic expertise from across the university, particularly from STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and healthcare. This will bring a wide range of perspectives to the program, says UTS Business School dean Chris Earley.

Advanced MBA director Natalia Nikolova says the degree can respond quickly to business needs because of the close links established with industry. EY and Mercer are two of the companies involved in the development and delivery of the curriculum for the new MBA.

EY education leader Catherine Friday says the degree will include “true work-integrated learning, where students are not just doing work experience but actually collaborating on complex real-life problems.”

The degree will be delivered in a blend of intensive face-to-face sessions and online learning. It will have an adaptable structure, with two graduate certificates that can stand on their own or lead to the full Advanced MBA program.

La Trobe’s new health hub

La Trobe University is pushing ahead with a Health and Wellbeing Hub on its Bundoora campus in Melbourne which is slated to include a hospital, primary healthcare and a clinic as well as more space for aged care, rehabilitation, prosthetics, nursing and psychology.

Right now it’s at the expression of interest stage and the university is looking for development partners and also wants to talk to health care organisations who may want to set up in the new hub. The university says the hub will offer employment and educational opportunities and more health services for local residents.

“This is one of the first elements of a university commitment to establish La Trobe as the economic engine room of Melbourne’s north,” said the university’s vice-president (development) Natalie MacDonald. The hub will be located on a 3.55-hectare piece of land owned by the university at the northern entrance of the Bundoora campus.