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Flinders University PhD-MBA (Future Business)

Flinders University’s PhD-MBA program is the first of its kind in Australia.

This is your opportunity to become an expert in your field by exploring your passion for research while developing world-class leadership and business skills, preparing you for a broad range of careers.

By combining a PhD with an MBA (Future Business), you will graduate with an MBA that is completed alongside and after your PhD research. Both degrees start at the same time and there will be MBA topics during your PhD. To allow you to have the best PhD possible, these topics will not interfere with important PhD milestones, for instance your confirmation or thesis submission.

Course Facts

60 months

Full Time Duration

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Domestic Fees (2025)

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International Fees (2025)

January, May, October

Commencements

Course Overview

The Flinders PhD-MBA program will allow you to acquire an MBA in addition to a primary research PhD.

This new program will prepare you with deep scientific and technical skills for leadership roles in industry, not-for-profit organisations and government. You will work in diverse and complex environments ready to implement financial and management decisions on the basis of your scientific knowledge.

You will begin both degrees at the same time in an integrated program. The MBA (Future Business) curriculum covers topics such as strategy, leadership, finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and industries 4.0 and 5.0.

Your PhD research component may be in many areas of study offered by Flinders University, such as in engineering, the life and medical sciences, and the physical sciences.

About Flinders University

Flinders University

When you study at Flinders, you’ll experience a contemporary and customisable curriculum that allows you to tailor your study to your interests and goals. You’ll gain future-focused knowledge and skills, guided by a teaching team with strong business backgrounds, entrepreneurial mindsets and dynamic methods of teaching. You’ll experience placements and industry projects with world-class companies that will prepare you for practice and give you the confidence to enter the job market. Plus, if you’re looking to advance your career, build leadership skills, or grow your salary, then a Master of Business Administration is for you.

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Flinders University in the News

New Director And Deputy To Drive Flinders University’s Growing MBA Suite

May 31, 2023

South Australia’s Flinders University continues to ramp up the focus on its growing suite of MBA programs with the appointment of new Director Associate Professor Angie Shafei and Deputy Director Dr Afshin Tanouri. They bring extensive expertise from the private and public sector to lead the Flinders MBA program towards the latest Industry 5.0 pathways […]

Flinders University Announces Australia’s First Combined PhD-MBA

December 5, 2022

What do you get when you combine the unrivalled expertise of a PhD with a business mindset and some newly acquired commercial acumen? Flinders University is offering a combined PhD-MBA in 2023, and its co-lead Carla Dias Wadewitz said that this one-of-a-kind program will produce uniquely qualified employees who are in great demand by employers, […]

New Flinders MBA Tackles National Security Challenges

February 11, 2022

Exploring innovative ways to tackle national security challenges is a focus of Flinders University’s new-look MBA Future Business program launching this year. Flinders University is tapping into a leading Department of Defence program to build innovative technological and entrepreneurial skills into the MBA. The launch of the ‘Hacking for National Security’ (H4NS) course through the […]

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