The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM @ UNSW Business School) is a

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UNSW Business School The UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales is a business school located in Sydney, Australia. The school offers 42 programs, including 26 undergraduate and 26 specialist master's degrees, as well as six MBA and executive pro ...

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. The AGSM offers general management, executive and leadership development programs. AGSM offers Fulltime

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MBA (Executive)MBAX
(an online MBA with specialisations in Change, Finance, Law, Social Impact and Technology)
Master of ManagementGraduate Certificates
with specialisations in Change Management, Digital Innovation, Leadership, Management, Strategic Management or Technology Management) an
short course executive education programs
in Australia and online. For many years the school's MBA program has been ranked by the ''Financial Times'' as the best in Australia.

History

In 1977, UNSW established the AGSM as New South Wales' second school of postgraduate management studies. In January 1999, the AGSM and the Graduate School of Business of the

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merged under the AGSM brand. In November 2005, the universities demerged their business schools and the AGSM reverted to wholly UNSW ownership. One year later, UNSW merged the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics, creating the Faculty of Business (later the

Australian School of Business The UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales is a business school located in Sydney, Australia. The school offers 42 programs, including 26 undergraduate and 26 specialist master's degrees, as well as six MBA and executive prog ...

). In mid-2007, the faculties physically combined, and moved into UNSW's newly renovated Heffron Building, which UNSW renamed the Australian School of Business Building. In 2011 Professor Chris Styles was appointed as Deputy Dean and Director AGSM, and the Master of Business & Technology program was added to AGSM offering. In June 2014, Professor Julie Cogin was appointed Director of AGSM, following the elevation of Professor Styles to Dean of the UNSW Business School. The current Director of AGSM i
Professor Nick Wailes

Programs

The AGSM offers a full-time MBA program in Sydney which generally takes 12 months to complete. Alternatively, students can complete one of two part-time MBAs - AGSM MBA (Executive) or the MBAX (where 'x' stands for a student's chosen specialisation), an AGSM Graduate Certificate.

Rankings

Rankings of the AGSM's MBA programs include the following: * #1 MBA Program in Australia, ''Financial Times'' (UK) 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 * #1 MBA Program in Australia and Asia, ''Forbes'' bi-annual survey 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 * #1 MBA (Executive) Program in Australia, ''Financial Times'' (UK) 2001-2007 * #1 MBA in Australia, ''Forbes'' magazine (2015) *#4 MBA in the world, QS Online MBA Rankings 2020 *#8 MBA in the world, Forbes Global MBA Rankings 2019 * #9 MBA in the FT (UK) Online MBA Rankings 2019

Alumni

The UNSW Business School has over 83,000 Alumni. There are over 16,500 alumni of the AGSM MBA and MBT programs. Notable alumni include: *Bruce Buchanan, CEO, Rokt (former CEO of Jetstar Airways) *

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, Director of Turnbull & Partners Pty. Ltd; former Lord Mayor of Sydney

References

External links

AGSM MBA website

AGSM executive programs
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