Graduate Certificate or Diploma of International Business overview
Graduate certificates and diplomas provide a succinct means of learning about international business. Certificate from Charles Darwin University, for instance, only take six months of full-time study to complete, or about one year part-time. Graduate diplomas from Swinburne University of Technology take twice that at one-year full time and two years part-time. Each offer similar units, with the length of the course determining how many of the following can be taken:
- International marketing
- International human resource management
- Cross-cultural management
- International trade and investment
- International business operations
- Managing the global marketplace
- International economics
- Many more
Employment options
There are a huge number of employment opportunities for international business graduates, some of which are detailed here. Working for an investment banking firm like Goldman Sachs, for instance, can lead to a highly rewarding career that’s well-suited to the skill set developed through these courses. Working as an international trader for ITM can be equally rewarding. By virtue of how globalised the world is, international business almost always has value in the corporate world.
Scholarships and funding
There are a variety of funding opportunities available to students of international business, some of which are more specific to this discipline than others. If you find any to be currently closed, keep an eye on them. These tend to reopen annually.
- The Pack and Send Logistics and Business Scholarship provides $1,400 to postgraduate business and logistics students. All it requires is a 200-word application explaining why applicants believe they are worthy of it.
- Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships are worth $69,500 pa, with no subject discipline requirements. This makes them exceptionally competitive.
- General Sir John Monash Scholarships are similar, offering $65,000 pa to students planning to commence postgraduate study overseas. Entry requirements are similar to Endeavour, with the same level of competition. They require students to argue for why their overseas institution of choice is worthy of their attention.
- The Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship provides $120,000 to students directing their studies toward one of three areas
- Technology and innovation
- Strengthening Australia-Asia ties
- Enabling positive social change
Students of international business can make a case for all three options, but the second is likely the best candidate. As China is one of Australia’s biggest trading partners, graduates from this discipline ought to see the value in strengthening such ties and so too the selection committee.
To browse the full directory of international business postgraduate scholarships, click here.
Prerequisites and selection process
There tend to be several ways into these courses. Applicants must have one of the following:
- A bachelor degree in a business discipline,
- A graduate certificate (when attempting to enter the graduate diploma),
- A bachelor degree in any discipline with two or more years of business experience, or
- Five years or more of business experience.
It is occasionally the case that these programs require a 5/7 GPA (65%) achieved in a prior study, but this often isn’t mandatory.