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Two Masters in two years

Two Masters in two years

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Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia offers postgraduate courses that are based on strong links with industry, business, government and the not for profit sector. Our connections with practice together with our meaningful and rigorous research ensure our programs meet the ever changing needs of organisations around the globe.  As signatories to the UN Principles of Responsible Management, we do not just teach theory, we also ensure that our students take a holistic view of the impact of their decisions, consider the impact on all stakeholders, understand requirements for corporate governance and develop their skills as responsible leaders. Making our graduates ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Answering your questions about postgrad study

We asked Sydney Business School, UOW students how they fit study into their busy lives, what keeps them motivated and much more.

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Alright, let's give it a go. We'll just take it from there.

What made you go back to study?

I'd been working in industry and felt like I needed a little bit of upskilling in the business side of things. Doing an MBA I felt like was the next most natural step in education. 

Well, my undergraduate was a long time ago. I started realising that I was missing something, I think, to get me to that next level. 

I wanted to show my son that if you put your mind into something, it's actually doable and possible.

Well, I was a uni dropout. It was always in the back of my mind that at some point I need to go back to uni and finish off a degree. The MBA program just became very relevant to me and my career. 

How do you stay focused when there's so much going on?

You always have to come back to what your purpose. At the start of each day, I have to go, why are we here? And we're here for our students, and we're here to change the world.

You work and you study and you have assignments, you need serious time management.

I'm sure you don't follow that all the time though.

Not all the time, you have to have some fun here and there.

Will this degree get you a pay rise? I bloody hope so. If the MBA makes me more valuable, more confident, then I can deliver more value with more confidence. That's bound to translate into better remuneration. So yes.

Be honest, are online classes boring?

I think that the tutors really know how to engage you in a way online that makes it feel like you're in the class.

I don’t have to travel. This is really convenient. It'll work around my work life and the breakout rooms being able to make relationships in those smaller settings. Absolutely fantastic.

You're meeting people in different sectors. It's that network. Never boring, never.

Have you ever wanted to give up? What kept you going?

Yes at some point I did want to give up. All you need is that little bit of hope. Once you believe you can do it, you can.

Honestly, what kept me going was the camaraderie.

I think there was definitely a time when I wanted to give up. I contacted my tutor Valerie and she was so incredibly supportive that it made me go, you know what, yeah, everything's going to be okay.

One piece of advice to someone considering studying, don't be scared to start. The students and the network that you build will help you keep pushing through your subjects and through your studies as well.

Find the right course and just do it. I love that. Just do it, don't think too much about it. Just do it.

 

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Change your career with an MBA

Dean Dalla Valle enrolled in a Master of Business Administration at UOW with the aim of taking his career to the next level. Over the next four years, he studied part time, balancing his evening classes with his young family and his burgeoning career.

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See how our MBA helped Peter fast-track his career

Peter Buckley shares how the UOW MBA set the foundations for his future career, laying the groundwork for his current role in the community where he was raised.

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Peter: I finished the master’s degree and we found out we were expecting triplets. We welcomed three identical girls into the world, nappy changes, sleep patterns, the routines of feeding. The triplets are 10 now, so I've got my son, his 12, Fraser, and then Eliza, Bronte, and Chloe are our beautiful daughters.

My current role is Director of Shire Services for Wollondilly Shire Council. For me personally, it was always an ambition that I would grow up, I would go to high school, and I would one-day study at the University of Wollongong, and to come back today and work in Wollondilly Shire where I grew up, my family grew up there, my grandfather, and their parents grew up there. So there’s a real connection to place that just evolves into being part of the community, part of my workplace, and serving people that I work with.

Grace McCarthy: They say you can’t be what you can't see. So if there’s somebody else in the family who has been to university and now look at them, look what Peter's done, he's had these senior positions in so many different industries, found his real niche, his fabulous job at Wollondilly and seen that success.

Peter: To come back today and see Grace and be able to see some of the new buildings that have been built over the last few years, I don’t think I would be where I am today without that connection with the University of Wollongong.

Grace: Peter took every bit of learning that he could, but he started with who he was as a person. He’s never changed.

Peter: 27, 28 years old, I was in a fairly senior role for a public company to really apply myself to the MBA, I thought once I was committed, each course was another layer in the foundations that I had for my future career.

Grace: The job now suits him absolutely perfectly because he's always learning something new and he's serving the community and that is absolutely who he is.

Peter: Really taking those building blocks that I learned in the MBA, I was able to then fast track more of my career development, particularly into the senior roles in ASX companies and some startups.

Grace:  You take your learning with you, and you add to it, and you carry on and all that becomes part of who you are, and then you come to that wonderful place where it all comes together, and you can do your best work.

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UOW's Sydney Business School ranked in Tier One globally for their Master of Business Administration.

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UOW's Sydney Business School ranked 1st in Australia for the Global Executive MBA Rankings.

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