Australian Graduate School of Management

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The Australian School of Business applies the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) branding to its most prestigious management teaching and management research centers. However, the AGSM no longer exists as a school. Previously, the AGSM was the most respected business school in Australia.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The AGSM was an independent business school with an international reputation for management research. In 1977, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), with federal government resources, established the AGSM as Australia's first national school of postgraduate management studies. In January 1999, the AGSM and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Sydney (USYD) merged under the AGSM brand. In November 2005, the universities demerged their business schools and the AGSM reverted to wholly UNSW ownership.^[4]

One year later, UNSW merged the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics, creating The Australian School of Business (for a brief period, the new faculty was called the Faculty of Business). UNSW's Vice Chancellor, Fred Hilmer, appointed Alec Cameron to manage the integration of the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics.^[5] Following the integration, the Vice Chancellor inducted Alec Cameron as the dean of the new school.^[6]

In mid-2007, the faculties physically combined in moving into UNSW's newly renovated Heffron Building, which UNSW renamed the Australian School of Business Building. In mid-November 2007, the University closed Australia's premium management library^{[citation needed]}, the AGSM's thirty-one-year-old Frank Lowy Library, and moved its collections and some of its staff to the main university library. At present, the AGSM building accommodates AGSM teaching facilities, AGSM administration, and Faculty of Medicine research units.

Today, the Australian School of Business offers a full-time AGSM MBA program in Sydney, a part-time AGSM EMBA program throughout Australia, a part-time AGSM EMBA in Hong Kong, an AGSM Graduate Certificate in Change Management, an AGSM Masters of Law and Management, and a range of executive education programs. Further, the Faculty of Business applies the AGSM brand to selective research centres. For example, Professor Robert Wood and Dr. Shayne Gary head the Accelerated Learning Laboratory, which the Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded $2.1 million in 2006 Linkage Grants.^[7]

1 Financial Help
2 Admissions
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Financial Help

The following financial options are available to AGSM MBA students.

Scholarships - UNSW offers scholarships to a small number of AGSM applicants. However, the University expects students to apply their own resources towards funding their degree.

Loans - Permanent residents of Australia can apply for commercial study loans and many banks offer such loans to students in Australia subject to normal lending criteria and current market rates.

Fee Help - Australian citizens can sponsor their University studies through the Australian government's fee help scheme.

[edit] Admissions

To be considered for admission into full time MBA program, a candidate must have successfully completed the following: undergraduate degree, comparable to the educational level of an Australian Bachelor degree; and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) exam (Minimum scores: Verbal 25; Quantitative 35; AWA 4.0. Overall: 550), the application for the MBA class including responses to the application essay questions, a resume, recommendations, academic history, TOEFL or IELTS score (if applicable), a nonrefundable AU $75 application fee, and an undertaking that the candidate has resources for paying a fee of AU $52,000 for the 16 months program.