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LocationIntakeStudy breaks
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Dunedin26 February 2024
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Dunedin22 July 2024
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Dunedin17 February 202514 April 2025 - 25 April 2025
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Dunedin14 July 202522 September 2025 - 3 October 2025
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The demand for management roles is expected to grow quickly over the next ten years.
There is also an increasing demand for people within these roles to hold higher level qualifications. So, a postgraduate qualification will give you a competitive advantage.
This programme will improve your management ability with course options such as Project Management, Analytics for Managers and Financial Decision Making. You begin with two compulsory courses - Capabilities for Managers, and Research and Enquiry - and then choose another two electives.
The flexibility of this qualification allows you to match your learning with particular employment opportunities you may have identified.
In Auckland, this programme is offered by Future Skills Academy due to a sub-contract arrangement with Otago Polytechnic.
Entry requirements
Minimum academic entry requirements are:
- A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent qualification) in a related discipline, OR
- A combination of academic qualifications and relevant skills and knowledge acquired through work or professional experience that is deemed equivalent to the above.
- International applicants must demonstrate that they have equivalent academic qualifications and experience. Click here for your country's equivalent academic entry requirements.
- If English is not your first language, you must provide:
- New Zealand University Entrance OR
- Overall Academic IELTS 6.5 with no individual band score lower than 6.0 (achieved in one test completed in the last two years), OR
- Acceptable alternative evidence of the required IELTS (see here for NZQA proficiency table and here for list of recognised proficiency tests).
Selection criteria
Where there are more applicants than places available, applicants will be selected on the basis of the best academic records and their admission recommended to the AIC Director (Learning and Teaching) in Auckland or Programme Leader in Dunedin who will approve the final selection.
Pathways into this programme
You may have completed an undergraduate degree in a different discipline and be working in a management role. There are no specific foundation/bridging programmes in Applied Management for this qualification.
If you need to improve your English to apply for this programme, you could apply for the New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Academic) (Level 5) which we offer at our Auckland International Campus.
Studying on campus
You'll learn using an online learning platform called Moodle. This means that, no matter where you are, you have easy access to all your course content. You also have access to Office 365, including Microsoft Teams, which you can use as part of your interaction with lecturers and classmates.
You will study
In Auckland and online
The programme includes four 15-credit courses. You will study two compulsory courses - Capabilities for Managers and Research and Enquiry - and then two elective courses chosen from the list below.
| COMPULSORY | ||
| Course name | Credits | Description |
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Capabilities for Managers |
15 |
Gain a critical awareness of the skills needed to manage complex organisations. |
| Research and Enquiry | 15 |
Achieve the skills you need to undertake small-scale professional projects within organisations. |
| ELECTIVES | ||
| Elective name | Credits | Description |
|
Financial Decision Making |
15 |
Learn how to apply the concepts, theory and analytical techniques of finance to investment, financing and dividend decisions of a firm. |
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Project Management |
15 |
Learn how to develop critical analysis and application skills in project management. |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
15 |
Learn how to analyse the processes associated with managing entrepreneurship and innovation within both new ventures and existing firms and to assess the significant issues associated with utilising these managerial concepts to optimise organisational performance. |
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Managing for Sustainability |
15 |
Develop your sustainable practice capabilities and apply these capabilities to a variety of applied settings as a sustainable practice manager. |
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Marketing in a Digital Age |
15 |
Gain the marketing management capabilities necessary to organise and manage for growth and profitability in a digital age. |
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Business Solutions Architecture |
15 |
Become equipped with an in-depth understanding of the concepts and procedures used in enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, for the successful development and execution of organisational strategy. |
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Information Security |
15 |
Assess the implications of information security and cybercrime trends, and evaluate security technologies and procedures in order to design appropriate information security structures for organisations. |
|
Interaction Design |
15 |
Define the structure and behaviour of interactive products and services. |
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Software Engineering Methodologies |
15 |
Apply structured and agile software development principles, and learn how to negotiate between them in different contexts. |
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Software Quality Assurance |
15 |
Learn how to investigate, critically evaluate, recommend and apply software quality assurance programmes in organisations. |
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Analytics for Managers |
15 |
Achieve the skills needed to critically evaluate data for decision making within applied management. |
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Applied Human Resource Management |
15 |
Gain the skills needed for management of human resources within contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand organisations |
Your workload
It is expected that you will study for 37.5 hours per week, including a minimum of 8 hours per week in structured direct learning, some hours in an applied workplace or learning environment and up to 27 hours per week in self-directed study.
Further study options
This qualification will prepare you for further postgraduate study at Otago Polytechnic where you can specialise in either Business Management or Business Information Systems.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management (Business Management) - offered in Dunedin, Auckland and online
- Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management (Business Information Systems) - offered in Auckland and online
- Master of Applied Management (Business Management) - offered in Dunedin, Auckland or online
- Master of Applied Management (Business Information Systems) - offered in Auckland or online
Alternatively, you could seek employment in a management-related role.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Recognition of Prior Learning including cross credit or credit transfer is available for up to 45 credits in this programme.
AM801002 Capabilities for Managers is not available for credit recognition.
Advanced standing is not available for this programme.
Intakes:
| Course | Description | Dates |
| 25-DUN-S2 | Dunedin | 14 July 2025 |
