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Programmes, entry and fees
Master of Management (MMgt)
The Master of Management is a 15-month coursework masters degree programme aimed at providing you with the practical skills and networks to support your successful entry into a business management oriented career with SMEs through to larger corporations.
The Master of Management will be offered next in Quarter Four (September) 2023.
180 points over 15 months
Career prospects
Likely roles include:
- Business analyst
- Market Planner
- Management consultant
- Sales Executive
Degree structure
The Master of Management is a 15-month, 180-point programme studied over five quarters. You will study core business courses before selecting from one of three specialisation options in Accounting, International Business or Marketing. You are able to confirm your choice of specialisation at the end of your second quarter of study.
You will also complete a professional development module as an important component of your degree. This will equip you with the professional skills that you will need to enhance your employability and success in the business world.
Course information for current students is available on the Business School website.
Courses
Core
| Course code | Course title | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSMGT 711 | Managing People and Organisations | 15 | Focuses on the foundations of organisational behaviour and managing within the workplace. Examines the challenges that managers and leaders face in managing people and organisations. |
| BUSMGT 712 | Principles of Business Analytics | 15 | Focuses on fact-based and data-driven decision making in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Examines decision biases and tools to overcome decision making under VUCA. |
| BUSMGT 713 | Financial Reporting and Control | 15 | Focuses on essential accounting knowledge for effective resource allocation and for quantifying, assessing, and communicating information about the health of the enterprise. |
| BUSMGT 714 | Economics for Managers | 15 | Examines attributes and behaviours of consumers, firms, markets and institutions and their impacts on the macroeconomy. Focuses on the micro and macroeconomic aspects of market actors from a managerial perspective. |
Specialisation: Accounting
| Course code | Course title | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSMGT 731 | Financial Reporting and Accounting | 15 | Provides an overview of financial accounting principles within New Zealand and the understanding and application of New Zealand Financial Reporting Standards. Focuses on the role financial statements play in investment, analysis and contracting decisions. |
| BUSMGT 732 | Business Finance | 15 | Examines the functions of the markets for real and financial assets, and their valuation. Focuses on the various techniques that financial managers can create wealth for shareholders and stakeholders. |
| BUSMGT 707 | Professional Development | 15 | Develops key interpersonal strategies and communication skills to become an agile, reflective professional and to manage the professional self effectively and cooperatively in a range of business environments. Enhances the emerging manager’s ability to lead and influence others in both cross-cultural contexts and uncertainty. |
| BUSMGT 733 | Analysing Financial Statement | 15 | Focuses on the analysis of financial statements and the assessments of an organisation’s performance. Develops an understanding of appropriate tools and techniques used to measure and assess risk and value. |
| BUSMGT 735 | Management Accounting | 15 | Design and management of revenue and cost management systems. Analysis of budgets and standard, costing system, cost systems for decision-making and control, performance appraisal, and contemporary related issues. |
| BUSMGT 708 | Communicating Business Insights | 15 | Equips students with the ability to utilise data visualisation tools and techniques in crafting and adapting data communication strategies for different types of audiences. Develops critical evaluation of the presentation of data and the implications for ethical communication. |
Specialisation: International Business
| Course code | Course title | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSMGT 741 | International Business Environment | 15 | Provides an understanding of macro-environment issues that businesses operating internationally face. Develops students’ analytical thinking and decision making skills with the use of analytical tools and case studies. |
| BUSMGT 745 | International Business Strategy | 15 | Explores strategic aspects of managing a firm in an international context. Emphasizes the development of skills to understand and analyse the issues that firms face in operating in international markets and value chains, and the emergence and development of business and corporate level international business strategy. |
| BUSMGT 707 | Professional Development | 15 | Develops key interpersonal strategies and communication skills to become an agile, reflective professional and to manage the professional self effectively and cooperatively in a range of business environments. Enhances the emerging manager’s ability to lead and influence others in both cross-cultural contexts and uncertainty. |
| BUSMGT 742 | International Trade and Finance | 15 | Provides an understanding of the trade and financial environments within which organisations operate. Focuses on the challenges organisations face when making business decisions with regard to international trade and finance. |
| BUSINT 743 | Competing in Asia | 15 | Develops highly specialised knowledge about the changing institutional and business environments in key economies in the Asia-Pacific region. Requires independent research and analysis to critically evaluate the implications of such changes for innovation, business strategy and understanding customers. |
| BUSMGT 708 | Communicating Business Insights | 15 | Equips students with the ability to utilise data visualisation tools and techniques in crafting and adapting data communication strategies for different types of audiences. Develops critical evaluation of the presentation of data and the implications for ethical communication. |
Specialisation: Marketing
| Course code | Course title | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSMGT 751 | Marketing Management | 15 | Focuses on the core concepts and principles of marketing theory and practice using examples from New Zealand and overseas. |
| BUSMGT 756 | Branding Strategy | 15 | Develops the essential frameworks and tools for operating in specialised marketing agencies such as advertising, branding, media, PR, or similar. Examines the work of marketing agencies, and equips students with a mobile repertoire of practical skills required by marketing agencies. |
| BUSMGT 707 | Professional Development | 15 | Develops key interpersonal strategies and communication skills to become an agile, reflective professional and to manage the professional self effectively and cooperatively in a range of business environments. Enhances the emerging manager’s ability to lead and influence others in both cross-cultural contexts and uncertainty. |
| BUSMGT 755 | Strategic Digital Marketing | 15 | Examines current and emerging research in marketing communications and evaluates contemporary practice. Focuses on the effective integration of digital strategies in marketing planning, implementation and practice. |
| BUSMGT 752 | Understanding Consumers | 15 | Focuses on the analysis of markets and buyers. It will involve the basic principles and application of market research. The course will also cover buyer behaviour concepts. |
| BUSMGT 708 | Communicating Business Insights | 15 | Equips students with the ability to utilise data visualisation tools and techniques in crafting and adapting data communication strategies for different types of audiences. Develops critical evaluation of the presentation of data and the implications for ethical communication. |
Strategy/capstone
| Course code | Course title | Points | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUSMGT 716 | Strategy Capstone | 15 | Examines the logics and processes of strategy formulation and implementation. The course involves a “real world” business project requiring creative and innovative recommendations. | |
| BUSACT 702 | Accounting Information Systems | 15 | Examines the process of development and distribution of accounting information for decision making. Emphases will be on the role of accounting information, business processes, system mapping and documentation through data flow diagrams and flowcharts, transaction cycles, and control of risk | |
| BUSMGT 717 | Strategic Management | 15 | Applies core conceptual frameworks in the evaluation and formulation of corporate and business strategy. Includes topics such as innovation, diversification and strategic change. | |
Exit pathway: If you are unable or choose not to continue with your masters programme, you may apply to reassign courses passed towards the Postgraduate Certificate in Management or Postgraduate Diploma in Management. For more information email businessmasters@auckland.ac.nz.
Entry requirements
Academic requirements
To gain entry you will need to have completed a bachelors degree from a recognised university with the equivalent of at least a New Zealand B average in the most advanced courses. This can be either a degree in business* or a non-business degree in a relevant discipline such as the arts, engineering, technology, or science.
In assessing your application we will take into account the ranking of the institution at which you completed your bachelors degree as well as the grades achieved in the relevant subjects. For indicative entry scores by country please see the table below.
| Country | Entry score |
| Australia | Credit average |
| Brazil | 7.0/10 |
| Canada | 3.3/4.3 |
| Chile | 5.0/7 |
| China (211/985) | 75% |
| China (non-211/985) | 80-85% |
| Colombia | 3.5/5 |
| Denmark | 8.0/13 |
| France | 12.0/20.0 |
| Germany | 2.8/5 |
| Hong Kong | 3.0/4 |
| India | First Class |
| Indonesia | 3.0/4 |
| Iran | 14/20 |
| Israel | 65/100 |
| Italy | 80/110 |
| Japan | 70/100 |
| Korea | 3.0/4.5 |
| Kuwait | 3.0/4 |
| Malaysia | 3.0/4 |
| Netherlands | 7.0/10 |
| New Zealand | B average |
| Philippines | 85/100 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.5/5 |
| Singapore | 3.5/5 |
| South Africa | 65-70/100 |
| Sri Lanka | 60-65/100 |
| Taiwan | 75/100 |
| Thailand | 3.0/4 |
| UK (Honours) | 2.1 |
| USA | 3.0/4 |
| Vietnam | 7.0/10 |
Note: These scores are indicative only and subject to review.
*Applicants who have completed advanced course(s) in an undergraduate degree which are considered substantially similar to courses in this programme will be required to complete substitute course(s). Advice will be provided to students on a case-by-case basis.
| Country | Entry score |
| Australia | Credit average |
| Brazil | 7.0/10 |
| Canada | 3.3/4.3 |
| Chile | 5.0/7 |
| China (211/985) | 75% |
| China (non-211/985) | 80-85% |
| Colombia | 3.5/5 |
| Denmark | 8.0/13 |
| France | 12.0/20.0 |
| Germany | 2.8/5 |
| Hong Kong | 3.0/4 |
| India | First Class |
| Indonesia | 3.0/4 |
| Iran | 14/20 |
| Israel | 65/100 |
| Italy | 80/110 |
| Country | Entry score |
| Japan | 70/100 |
| Korea | 3.0/4.5 |
| Kuwait | 3.0/4 |
| Malaysia | 3.0/4 |
| Netherlands | 7.0/10 |
| New Zealand | B average |
| Philippines | 85/100 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.5/5 |
| Singapore | 3.5/5 |
| South Africa | 65-70/100 |
| Sri Lanka | 60-65/100 |
| Taiwan | 75/100 |
| Thailand | 3.0/4 |
| UK (Honours) | 2.1 |
| USA | 3.0/4 |
| Vietnam | 7.0/10 |
Note: These scores are indicative only and subject to review.
*Applicants who have completed advanced course(s) in an undergraduate degree which are considered substantially similar to courses in this programme will be required to complete substitute course(s). Advice will be provided to students on a case-by-case basis.
English requirements
- Academic IELTS 6.5, with no band less than 6.0, or;
- TOEFL (paper-based) 575 (TWE 4.5), or;
- TOEFL (internet-based) 90 (written 21), or;
- Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP) B-, or;
- English Pathway for Postgraduate Studies (EPPS) B-;
- PTE Academic 58, with no PTE communicative skills score below 50.
If your English does not meet the required standard, our English Language Academy offers the following courses:
- For students who need to increase their English IELTS score by 0.5: English Pathway for Postgraduate Studies (EPPS)
- For students who need to increase their English IELTS score by 1.0: Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP)
Fees and scholarships
Fees
Fees are set in advance of each calendar year and will be updated on this website. All fees are inclusive of 15% GST, but do not include the student services fee, course books, travel and health insurance, or living costs.
Amounts shown are indicative only. In addition to the tuition fees, there is a Student Services Fee of $8.38 per point, estimated at $1,257.00 for full-time study (150 points). Fees will be confirmed upon completion of enrolment into courses.
*Please note: amounts shown are indicative and estimates only.
| International students (NZ$) | Domestic students (NZ$) | |
|---|---|---|
| Master of Management | $65,862 | $28,817 |
Scholarships
Scholarships are open to admitted students for any of the Business Masters programmes offered by the University of Auckland. The basis of selection will be academic merit and a written statement covering career goals and motivation.
University of Auckland Business Masters Scholarships (International)
The main purpose of the scholarships are to support international students to gain the skills and knowledge required to launch a business career by completing a Master of Management or Master of Professional Accounting degree at the University of Auckland Business School. A key objective is to enhance the diversity of the class profile.
- Tenure: Up to one year
- Amount: Up to $32,000 each
- Open to nationality: All nationalities
- Further details: Visit this link for more information including how to apply
University of Auckland Business Masters Scholarships (Domestic)
The main purpose of the scholarships are to support domestic students to gain the skills and knowledge required to launch a business career by completing a Master of Management or Master of Professional Accounting degree at the University of Auckland Business School.
- Tenure: Up to one year
- Amount: Up to $16,000 each
- Open to nationality: New Zealand citizen/permanent resident/Australian
- Further details: Visit this link for more information including how to apply
Key dates
Intake dates:
September 2023
International students must apply by 1 July 2023
Domestic students must apply by 1 August 2023
April 2024
International students must apply by 1 Feb 2024
Domestic students must apply by 1 March 2024
Late applications may be considered subject to the availability of places.
Start dates:
The programme is delivered in quarters. Each quarter is 10 weeks long followed by a two week break. There are four quarters per calendar year.
An orientation week will be held for each new intake of students. It is an essential part of your learning journey and has been designed to help you to develop the skills and strategies you will need for a successful transition into your studies.
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