Postgraduate Diploma in Business

at Massey University - Auckland Campus New Zealand

Massey’s Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy with Honours will set you up for a rewarding career working alongside people of all ages with speech, language, communication, and swallowing difficulties.

As a speech-language therapist you’ll facilitate independence in individuals. You’ll assess children, young people and adults with a variety of communication and swallowing disorders and work with them to improve their ability to participate in school, work and other daily activities. You may work with children who have speech and/or language disorders, or adults living with a traumatic brain injury or stroke.

You’ll have an impact on people’s quality of life.

Massey’s Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy with Honours combines academic coursework with supervised clinical experience. You’ll work alongside practising speech-language therapists to gain clinical hours in a wide range of settings. These could include:

• Schools
• Hospitals
• Rehabilitation centres
• Child development services, and
• Community settings across New Zealand.

The Bachelor of Information Sciences (Data Science) gives you the skills to fill the rapidly growing number of jobs in the area of data science and analytics.

You’ll learn how to make sense of complexities so others can understand them and how to apply computing to data-oriented challenges. You may have an interest in commerce, government, natural and social sciences. You can learn how to apply technology to drive potentially world-changing innovation, decision-making and research in those fields.

Data Science brings together some of the most interesting aspects of computer science, IT and statistics in order to make a unique, custom-designed and relevant specialisation for the current job market.

Massey University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Construction (Construction Law) gives you the opportunity to join the pathway to in-depth research at a master's level.

The qualification gives you the opportunity to show your analytical thinking as well as your high-level research capability.

Massey’s Diploma in Arts (Statistics) will give you the skills to do calculations, draw graphics, and display new insights.

Statistics provides tools vital for the collecting, analysing and presenting of data. Statistics is much more than the organisation and display of data. Careful analysis of underlying questions and critical examination of the sources of data are part of the art of statistics. Modelling the variability in data to calculate the reliability of answers is part of its science.

Statisticians use computers extensively to do calculations, draw graphics and bring new insights. With increasing use of technology, people with data handling skills have become highly sought after in the workplace. More and more professions, from the every day to the exotic, depend on data and numerical reasoning.

The Massey BA (Social Anthropology) will give you a different perspective on the world, global culture and society.

Studying social anthropology will develop your understanding of other cultures and contexts and show you how your way of life is just one of many possible ways of being human. Social Anthropology invites us to ask questions about the cultural implications of migration, human trafficking, religion, gender fluidity, cyberspace, fracking, hyper-consumption, food security, scientific enquiry, city living to challenge your existing beliefs and put yourself in others’ shoes.

Massey University’s Master of Business Studies combines study of advanced theory with research. It gives you the skills you need to progress your career or continue to further study.

What will you learn?

• A masters is a rigorous, challenging, rewarding and exciting program of study. Your study will focus on your chosen specialisation, in the context of other business disciplines. This reflects the reality of today’s business environment.
• You will learn the processes and disciplines involved in high-level in-depth research and how to apply them to business. You will complete and present a comprehensive written report on an independent research topic.
• We have strong relationships with industry. We will help you draw on experience you may have to give your learning context and relevance to the real world.
• The Master of Business Studies program will also develop your oral and written communication skills to the level expected of senior business leaders.

The Master of Management is a professional, relevant and contemporary qualification.

It has a unique core of courses that focus on key business skills like communication, leading and working in teams, and current issues in business.

Financial economics concentrates on decision-making under uncertainty. These decisions are applied to a variety of capital markets and asset-pricing. There is a greater emphasis on the role of information for economic co-ordination and organisations. You will build upon your undergraduate studies to gain an international perspective on management.

Massey’s Master of Management will increase your business knowledge and give you an in-depth understanding of marketing. You don’t have to have a qualification in business to undertake this master’s

You may not have previous marketing experience, but have found yourself a manager of marketing staff. Or you may be looking at moving into a management role in the marketing area. If so, Massey’s Master of Management (Marketing) will give you the in-depth knowledge and skills you need.

The Master of Management is a professional, relevant and contemporary qualification. It has a unique core of courses that focus on key business skills like communication, leading and working in teams. Your teaching will cover current issues in business as well as in-depth marketing insights.

Gain in-depth specialist business skills that will help take your career to the next level.

What will you learn?

• A master’s is a rigorous, challenging, rewarding and exciting qualification of study. Your study will focus on your chosen specialisation, in the context of other business disciplines. This reflects the reality of today’s business environment.
• You will learn the processes and disciplines involved in high-level in-depth research and how to apply them to business. You will complete and present a comprehensive written report on an independent research topic.
• We utilise our relationships with industry and help you draw on experience you may have to give your learning context and relevance to the real world.
• The Master of Business Studies will also develop your oral and written communication skills to the level expected of senior business leaders.

With Massey’s Master of Arts (Economics) you’ll build on your undergraduate interests and develop your analysis and research skills. With a Master of Arts (Economics) at Massey, you’ll investigate how businesses decide what to produce and how many people to employ, explore how people decide what to consume, and learn about big-picture world economics.

This program will help you in your own decision-making and in better understanding developments in the economy and society in general. It offers ways of thinking about the world that let you make the best of what you have, and improve on it.