The MBA program of the Australian School of Business is known as the AGSM MBA, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded as the Australian Graduate School of Management in 1977, the AGSM MBA is consistently ranked at the top of the national rankings and amongst one of the top MBA programs in the world.
The program provides a full-time MBA, a part-time Executive-MBA, a Graduate Certificate in Change Management and delivers executive education to major corporations and organisations Australia-wide.
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The AGSM MBA is recognised as one of the highest ranked MBA programs in Australia, consistently achieving top rankings in independent national and international ranking surveys. [1][2][3]
• #1 MBA Program in Australia, Financial Times (UK) 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (only Australian School in Top 50 & ranked in the Top 100 since survey inception)
• #36 MBA Program in the world, Financial Times (UK) 2010
• #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
• First Australian business school to receive AACSB accreditation
• #4 in Asia Pacific in the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report[4]
The Australian School of Business offers a full-time AGSM MBA program in Sydney which generally takes 16 months to complete, 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 heads the Accelerated Learning Laboratory, which the Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded $2.1 million in 2006 Linkage Grants.[5]
The main campus is located at the University of New South Wales in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney. The AGSM Building houses teaching facilities, AGSM admissions and administration staff and student facilities such as a common room, computer labs and syndicate rooms. It also has accommodation facilities for students in the part-time program and for visitors. Students also have access to the facilities of The Australian School of Business on the same campus which include additional teaching and study spaces. The University Library houses various books, journals and other useful academic resources.
Additionally there is a city campus based in Sydney's CBD where Executive MBA and Executive Education training is delivered. There are satellite facilities in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.
The full-time program has one cohort per year with approximately 70 students. The student body organizes ten clubs focusing on disciplines such as marketing, finance, corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship. Students from the AGSM have competed in business school competitions reaching the finals of the 2008 InnovateChina competition organised by CEIBS and the 2008 Innovation Challenge held at Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
The part-time program has approximately 1,000 students at any point in time at varying stages of completion of their degree.
In 1977, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), with federal government resources, 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 University of Sydney merged under the AGSM brand. In November 2005, the universities demerged their business schools and the AGSM reverted to wholly UNSW ownership.[6]
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.[7] Following the integration, the Vice Chancellor inducted Alec Cameron as the dean of the new school.[8]
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.
There are over 11,000 alumni of the AGSM MBA programs.[9] Notable alumni include
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