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Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership)
UndergraduateUSQ-BEL-DEG2025
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Become an effective and trusted business leader
If your long-term goal is leadership, start here with this online business degree. With this specialisation you’ll gain skills to manage teams and solve problems. Learn about resilience. Prepare to adapt. Become a balanced manager with a global mindset.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 3 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 24
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership)
About this degree
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Work autonomously and collaboratively to contribute to organisational initiatives by selecting and applying relevant theory to analyse and generate solutions to dynamic issues and changing landscapes.
- Evaluate inputs from various sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others, including organisational, societal, environmental, and professional expectations, are recognised.
- Evaluate digital technologies, mechanisation, computerisation, and/or automation to support current and future business processes in the relevant domain of specialist expertise.
- Communicate broad-level specialist advice to others to build professional credibility.
- Exercise professional judgement using critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to continue developing as a self-reliant, ethical, and responsible professional.
- Leverage a well-developed professional identity by exhibiting the human capabilities and knowledge demanded by modern organisations.
- Learn to become an effective leader in your industry by studying UniSQ’s Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership). Our graduates are prepared for the lifelong learning and growth mindset essential for forging a career as trusted leaders. At UniSQ you will build your professional identity and develop confident skills in ethical decision making, teamwork, complex problem solving, negotiation and influence, and person-centred communication, whilst gaining practical experience while working on case studies and a final-year group project together with industry partners.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
FIN1100 Commercialisation
MGT1001 Cultivating Talent
CIS1000 Digital Disruption
MKT1100 Customer Experience
MGT1101 Human Capabilities for Business
ECO1002 Market Behaviour
ACC1201 Data Insights and Financial Performance
MGT2303 Cultivating Employee Engagement
Year 2
MGT2002 The Balanced Manager
MGT2009 Emerging Leaders
MGT3002 Influencing Change
MGT2302 Thinking Like a Leader
4 x Electives
Year 3
MGT3007 Building Intelligent Organisations
MGT3011 Leading for a Brighter Tomorrow
MGT3303 The Equipped Graduate
MGT3001 Global Leadership
4 x Electives
Award requirements
Completion of 24 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Associate Degree of Business, Diploma of Business.
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Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $48,969
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
Entry requirements
- ATAR - 60.0 or equivalent; proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Completed VET qualifications can be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Work and Life experience may be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Chief Executives and Managing Directors | N/A^ | Up 10.8% |
Corporate General Managers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
General Managers | N/A^ | Up 59.7% |
Management Consultants | N/A^ | N/A^ |
^ There is no data available