Graduate Diploma of Agribusiness
Graduate Diploma of Agribusiness
The Graduate Diploma of Agribusiness is designed to produce graduates who can make a positive contribution to society in agribusiness as effective communicators, innovators, and thought leaders. The course will challenge students to analyse, critically evaluate, and communicate advanced and technical knowledge of established agribusiness theories in a range of…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Graduate Diploma of Agribusiness is designed to produce graduates who can make a positive contribution to society in agribusiness as effective communicators, innovators, and thought leaders. The course will challenge students to analyse, critically evaluate, and communicate advanced and technical knowledge of established agribusiness theories in a range of real-world scenarios. Graduates will be able to demonstrate the autonomy, expert judgement, adaptability, and responsibility required of successful agribusiness leaders in an ever-changing and complex world.
The course draws on LI’s established expertise in agribusiness. The structure of this course is based on the first year of LI’s Master of Agricultural Information Management or Master of Business Administration (Agribusiness), allowing graduates to fast-track into the final year of the either Masters course. It also enables students to exit the higher-level course, due to unforeseen personal or professional reasons, after the first year with a fully accredited qualification.
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma of Agribusiness may find employment in agribusiness leadership and management roles in a relevant occupational field, such as: agribusiness management; sales and marketing entrepreneurial start-ups; and not-for-profit organisations; as well as educational institutions that require skills in research and critical thinking. Additionally, graduates may choose to return to studies and progress along the pathway toward further studies in the discipline area of agribusiness.
Course Learning Outcomes
The objective of the course is to transform the students into graduates who are competent professional agribusiness managers across the value chain that spans from ‘farm to fork’, across scales from the local community to global market. Career pathways may include but are not limited to:
- Farm management
- Agribusiness management
- Agriculture and resource economy
- Sales and marketing of agribusiness input and outputs
- Rural banking and rural finance
- Agricultural consultancy service
- Research centres
- Government and non-government organisations including government departments and research establishments, universities, industry marketing and research organisations, representative and peak bodies, and multilateral agencies.
REQUIREMENTS
International students
International students who have not completed an Australian qualification must have appropriate educational qualifications, deemed equivalent to the Australian Higher School Certificate under the NOOSR guidelines
International candidates may also be considered for admission by:
Satisfactorily completing vocational and or tertiary studies in Australia or overseas, accredited under the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), or
Satisfactorily completing equivalent overseas studies
Students enrolling from non-English speaking countries are required to undertake an English language test and demonstrate English proficiency with a minimum score of:
IELTS: 6.0 (Academic) with no sub-band less than 5.5
TOEFL (paper based) 550 with a score of 5 or better in the Test of Written English
It is expected that students can demonstrate that the English language test was successfully completed within two years of the date of application for admission.
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