The University of Sydney's full-time MBA (Leadership and Enterprise) is Australia's #1 MBA program*, delivered over 18 months at a top 25 global university^. This intensive MBA program develops the personal skills, business knowledge, and leadership capabilities you need to build and lead successful enterprises in today's competitive business landscape.
This MBA program goes beyond traditional business fundamentals. Modern business leaders require resilience, adaptability, progressive thinking, and influential leadership skills to succeed on the global stage - qualities embedded throughout our MBA curriculum.
Delivered in an intensive format with small class sizes, the MBA (Leadership and Enterprise) allows students to focus on two units of study at a time over nine-week periods. While our MBA program provides comprehensive training in finance, marketing, and business strategy like leading MBA programs worldwide, you'll also gain critical skills in digital leadership, big data analytics, creative problem-solving, and complex systems thinking. MBA students also have the opportunity to undertake paid internships with leading Australian and international companies, building practical experience and professional networks during their studies.
*Financial Times MBA Rankings 2024
^ QS World University Rankings 2026
This degree is designed for professionals with a minimum of 3 years experience looking to take their career to the next level.
You’ll ‘learn by doing’ with a small class of like-minded professionals, hand-picked from around the world to create a vibrant and diverse cohort.
The program comprises 12 units of study grouped around three focus areas:
The University of Sydney's full-time MBA (Leadership and Enterprise) prepares international and domestic students for modern business leadership. Today's MBA graduates need more than traditional business fundamentals. Successful business leaders must be resilient, adaptable, progressive, and influential to succeed in global markets.
Our MBA program provides personalised career services and access to paid internships with leading multinational corporations and Australian companies. Students gain exposure to both global brands and local enterprises, building an influential professional network across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region while developing practical business experience in the Australian market.
The first four units of the full-time MBA focus on developing personal and interpersonal skills needed to manage and lead effectively. You will learn to build individual resilience in a world of growing complexity, disruption and ambiguity.
Once you complete the first four units, you will focus on core business knowledge and skills, with an overarching theme of building business resilience and sustainability. You will have an opportunity to combine assessments from these four units to form a business project that will examine the sustainability of an existing business.
Your final four units will bring together the knowledge and skills you have gained in the previous units to equip you to build and lead future enterprises. The final unit is the MBA Capstone (Design Strategy) – you will develop customer-centric products and services that are aligned with the strategy of an existing organisation. You will integrate the skills, knowledge and experience acquired throughout the MBA to bring a real prototype to market.
A key goal for our part-time MBA is to prepare you for real-world business situations.
For detailed information about units of study, please visit the full-time MBA course page.
Our full-time MBA will equip you with the skills and knowledge required to achieve your personal and professional goals. You will:
Throughout the MBA Program eligible students can apply for paid projects that are relevant to their MBA study.
The MBA internships/projects is about much more than work experience, as they are designed to offer exciting and meaningful experience for both students and the corporate partners. Along with your own industry experience, you will draw on the skills and knowledge gained from the MBA program to develop compelling new propositions with impact for businesses and society.
The University's tuition fees are reviewed annually and may vary during your period of study. For information relating to fees, please visit the full-time MBA course details page.
We offer MBA Director's Scholarships of varying values to local and international self-funded candidates for our full-time MBA program.
If you would like to be considered for a scholarship, please provide details of this in your statement of motivation (see How to apply, below).
To apply for the full-time MBA, you need to have:
If English is not your first language, you will also need to provide evidence of English language proficiency.
For more detailed information about admission criteria, please visit the full-time MBA course page.
In order to secure a place in the August 2026 commencing cohort you are encouraged to apply in an early admission round.
Round 1: 24 August 2025
Round 2: 28 September 2025
Round 3: 26 October 2025
Round 4: 30 November 2025
Round 5: 11 January 2026
Final round for international applicants: 22 February 2026
Final round for domestic applicants: 29 March 2026
After the completion of each admission round, your application will be assessed and you will be notified on whether or not you have been short-listed for an interview within 4 weeks.
Interview times are subject to availability, and only shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview.
Note: applications will be accepted throughout the year, and outside of the above admission round deadlines.
You will need to meet the necessary admission criteria before you will be considered for entry. Please check the admission criteria above.
In order to complete your application online you will need the following documentation:
If you would like to be considered for a scholarship, please provide details of this in your abovementioned statement of motivation. Note: a separate scholarship application is not required.
If the results of your previous study aren’t available by the closing date, you can still submit an application. Your application will be considered, providing you forward the relevant results once they become available.
Shortlisted applicants for the full-time MBA will be required to attend a selection interview with an MBA Program staff member and an alumni of the MBA Program to establish the candidate's suitability.
For detailed information about how to apply and application deadlines, please visit the full-time MBA course page.
Minimum 3 years work experience and undergraduate degree with 65 GPA or equivalent.
Please visit the full-time MBA course details page for information relating to fees,
Yes, the University of Sydney Business School is triple accredited (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS) - top 1% of business schools globally.
Small cohort sizes with no more than 50 students, with hand-picked professionals from around the world.
We are globally recognised and the only business school in Australia to hold both the coveted triple crown accreditation and CEMS membership.
