Master of Business
MBus
Duration
17 months full-time
Entry times
February or July
Fees Estimate
Scholarships
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Duration
17 months full-time
Entry times
February or July
Fees Estimate
Scholarships
Download Brochure
Overview
The Master of Business (MBus) provides you with broad business skills and expertise as part of UC's Business Taught Masters programme.
The degree explores business basics as well as a specialist major focus, and includes project opportunities through our industry contacts to give you practical experience in applying your commercial knowledge.
Open to students from any study background, the MBus offers you the chance to upskill, or a pathway for those looking to newly enter the business world.
- Major subjects in the Master of Business target key areas of end-to-end business organisation, giving our graduates diversified work-focused skills, and making them highly employable.
- The programme offers opportunities to develop real-world business experience through consulting projects with local industry.
- A strong focus on transferable skills and the ability to solve problems will prepare you to meet the many challenges of a dynamic and uncertain world.
- The Business Taught Masters programme programme offers great support and a range of opportunities to help prepare students, including orientation, pastoral care services, career development seminars, and additional certification opportunities that will support you in realising your career goals.
- Ōtautahi Christchurch is home to a number of start-up companies searching for skilled graduates from UC.
- Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School is accredited by AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS; only one percent of business schools in the world have attained all three.
Any bachelor's degree, with at least a B Grade Point Average in your 300-level courses, is required to enrol (or other qualifications of an equivalent standard).
If English is your additional language, you are also required to meet UC's English language requirements.
For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Master of Business or use the admission requirements checker.
How to apply
You can apply online at myUC. Find out more about how to apply for graduate and postgraduate qualifications.
The Master of Business is made up of 180 points. This is comprised of four compulsory courses in general business knowledge (60 points), courses towards a major subject (75 points), and project-based courses (45 points, with at least 30 points of these in the major subject area).
Study can begin in February or July, and will take up to 17 months full-time or 4 years part-time. Some courses in the programme are also available for study online.
Compulsory courses
Majors
You can complete the MBus with one of the following majors:
Financial Management
The Financial Management major aims to prepare graduates to become a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) — the most respected and recognised investment credential in the world. The curriculum covers a substantial proportion of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and places a strong emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice within the programme.
- MFIN600 CFA Ethics Programme (0-point course)
- MFIN601 Corporate Finance
- MFIN602 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
- MFIN603 Financial Management
- MFIN671 Business in New Zealand
- MFIN673 Portfolio Management OR MFIN674 Financial Decision Making
- MBAZ605 Business Law
- MPAC603 Advanced Management Accounting
Management
- MBAZ605 Business Law
- MBUS601 Marketing
- MBUS602 Leadership
- MBUS603 Managing People and Performance
- MBAZ672 Evidence Based Human Resource Management OR MBAZ680 Research Project
- One course chosen from these options
Marketing
- MBAZ605 Business Law
- MBUS601 Marketing
- MBUS626 Digital Marketing
- MBUS627 Event Marketing and Management
- MBUS644 Principles of Sustainability
- MBAZ671 Applied Marketing OR MBAZ680 Research Project
Sustainable Supply Chain Management (not open to new enrolments)
Elective courses
Any remaining points are chosen from the following:
- MBAZ673 Innovation (15 points)
- MBAZ674 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (15 points)
- MFIN671 Business in New Zealand (15 points)
- MFIN672 Cases in Financial and Management Accounting (15 points)
- MFIN673 Portfolio Management (15 points)
- MFIN674 Financial Decision Making (15 points)
15 points from the elective courses may be substituted with options in the MBIS Schedule C (Group 2) or MPA Schedule C (Group 2).
This degree programme is designed to prepare graduates for roles in commercial industries, from entry-level through to upper management. Our graduates offer diverse business experience, with marketing and management often the most sought-after skills by today's employers, locally and globally.
Depending on their major, graduates will go onto roles in areas such as operations management, consulting, investment and financial analysis, human resources, advertising, and marketing across a range of different organisations.
You can also start a business of your own with the broad and specialist skills you learn in this qualification.
Useful information:
- Read what other UC postgraduate students have gone on to achieve in their studies and careers in our student and graduate profiles.
- Te Rōpū Rapuara | UC Careers can help you to achieve the career you want, connect with employers, or find a job.
- For research into career destinations by qualification, visit Te Pōkai Tara | Universities New Zealand website.
- Find out more about what you can do with a degree from UC.
- Come along to an upcoming information event for prospective postgraduate students.
See Tuition Fee Structure for more information
| Year | Points | Info | Fees (NZD) |
| 2023 | 180 | Fee estimate. Actual fee will be determined by course selection. | $12,443 |
| 2022 | 180 | Special Programme Fee. | $15,028 |
| Year | Points | Info | Fees (NZD) | Fees (NZD) Excl GST |
| 2022 | 180 | $47,700 | $41,478 | |
| 2023 | 180 | $50,550 | $43,957 |
Contact us
For full requirements, see the Regulations for the Master of Business.
Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Phone +64 3 369 3300
Email postgradbusiness@canterbury.ac.nz