Graduate Diploma in Business

Where will your degree take you?

Bond’s Graduate Diploma in Business is ideal for individuals seeking a career change or looking to build a solid foundation in business fundamentals. This program provides essential technical skills for sound decision-making, while also developing the interpersonal, cross-cultural, and communication capabilities needed to lead and implement those decisions effectively.

Recognised across a wide range of industries, this versatile qualification opens the door to diverse career opportunities.

Business consultant

Core to the responsibility of a Business Consultant is identifying areas within a business model which can be improved as well as creating the strategy around how the identified improvements can be achieved. Business consultants often operate as freelancers or within a consulting company. Roles in this field could include:

  • Business development consultant  
  • International marketing consultant  
  • Digital business strategy  
  • Senior consultant – financial management

Finance

To be successful in finance, not only do you need to have a strong understanding with numbers but also financial insight to guide business spending and investment decisions. Roles in this field could include:

  • Commercial finance manager  
  • Executive finance manager  
  • Financial consultant  
  • Project finance partner  
  • Financial advisor

Business development

Business Development Managers are strategists, and networkers and are responsible for identifying and capturing new revenue opportunities. Business strategy skills developed can be applied across an array of industries and in various roles, including:

  • Business development management 
  • Sales development executive 
  • Strategic partnerships

Marketing

Management is a natural career progression for any marketing specialist. Marketing managers are responsible for developing strategic end-to-end campaigns for an organisation and oversee the implementation and execution of campaigns and strategic plans. Roles in this field could may include:

  • Senior marketing manager
  • Campaign manager
  • Commercial sales manage

Professional accreditation

Bond Business School is among less than 7% of the world’s 13,000 business programs to have earned accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and less than 2% have earned European Foundation for Management Development's (EFMD) European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation. Bond Business School is both AACSB and EQUIS accredited placing us in the top 2% of Business Schools in the world.

Bond Business School is also one of four universities in Australia who are members of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a tangible statement of the significant contribution our programs make to graduate management education. 

Bond Business School is among less than 7% of the world’s 13,000 business programs to have earned accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and less than 2% have earned European Foundation for Management Development's (EFMD) European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation. Bond Business School is both AACSB and EQUIS accredited placing us in the top 2% of Business Schools in the world.

Bond Business School is also one of four universities in Australia who are members of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a tangible statement of the significant contribution our programs make to graduate management education. 

Program learning outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes provide a broad and measurable set of standards that incorporate a range of knowledge, skills and abilities that will be achieved on completion of the program. These outcomes will help you determine whether this program aligns with your professional pathway, career and learning goals.

View Graduate Diploma in Business learning outcomes
  1. Apply a multi-disciplinary understanding of theories, concepts and techniques to routine business tasks.
  2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex business issues or problems.
  3. Generate creative solutions that address an identified business need, opportunity or problem.
  4. Critically reflect on one's personal learning experience to extract and evaluate insights.
  5. Recognise the cultural, environmental and social considerations of individual behaviour and organisational operations in business.
  6. Orally communicate complex business information to a diverse professional audience using appropriate visual aides.
  7. Deliver a clear, concise well-organised presentation appropriate to specialist and non-specialist audiences using suitable visual aids.
  8. Articulate complex business ideas, decisions, recommendations and other information in a clear, concise writing style tailored to a given audience.
  9. Collaborate effectively with others to complete a complex project or group task.