Business

Become a business leader

Our huge range of business courses give you a head start to your career. Whether you’re studying Deakin’s globally renowned MBA or exploring a variety of passions with a commerce degree, you’ll graduate with skills, knowledge and professional networks that elevate your career to its full potential. You’ll learn on your feet through industry-based projects with real clients, while work placements at large organisations give you a taste of your future role. Many of our courses have international study options, to help you kickstart a global career. Better still, most of our courses can be studied online, so you can become a business leader at your own pace.

Disciplines within business

Courses within business

Discover our stackable short courses

Deakin's stackable short courses are designed to give you maximum flexibility in minimum time. Each course can be undertaken individually or in parallel with others. Complete one for a standalone qualification or stack multiple towards a full Deakin degree.

Browse all stackable short courses

Your future in business

Explore our range of business courses, developed in consultation with industry. You’ll build an invaluable network through work-integrated learning and graduate with a set of versatile skills to give you an employment edge.

Explore our facilities

Our high-tech teaching spaces include the cutting-edge Deakin Trading Room. Get hands-on trading experience with a model of an interbank trading floor and gain real-world insights into the foreign-exchange market.

Build a career in business

We offer a full suite of postgraduate programs, including our globally renowned and award-winning MBA. Or you can kick-start your research career using industry connections to carry out meaningful commercial research.

Learn in the real world

Get your career off to the best start through work-integrated learning (WIL) – you’ll develop professional networks and gain hands-on skills and expertise while earning credit towards your degree at the same time.

We know that employers value the skills and knowledge that DBS graduates evidence, and that our students engage with, and enjoy an educational experience that matches their expectations.

Professor Mike Ewing

Executive Dean, Faculty of Business and Law

Gain study credit through real-world learning

Professional work experience develops your employability; students with placements and internships are highly sought-after by employers. Many of our business courses offer work placements in organisations in Australia and overseas.
Industry placements give you an opportunity to:

apply and consolidate knowledge gained in your course
cultivate professional competencies
experience workplace culture
explore career options relevant to your study discipline
develop professional networks.

Professional work experience is not just about experiencing a new culture or workplace, but increasingly important in positioning graduates for future success.

Explore our industry connections

Deakin Business School is in the top 1% of business schools globally^*. Our close ties with industry, government departments, professional associations and other educational providers mean that you get courses matched to current industry best practice.

Learn more about Deakin Business School

Gain international experience

Deakin Business School students have walked the Great Wall of China, paced the pavements in Paris, played cricket in Delhi, and offered business advice to local government in Japan. Connect with the world through short-term study programs, international internships and volunteering.

Find out more about overseas study opportunities

Top 1% of business schools worldwide

Deakin Business School is EQUIS accredited through the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). This recognition provides global credibility and reflects the quality of education and learning experiences of our graduates, making them more employable here and around the world.^**

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Get in touch

We’re here for you even before you’re here with us. Ask us your study questions and receive one-on-one support through your journey to university.

Domestic students
1800 693 888
myfuture@deakin.edu.au
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^{***QS Online MBA Rankings 2021}
^{**EQUIS accredited}
^{+Deakin references data from a range of government, higher education and reputable media sources. For more information, visit our list of media references}

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