Course Description:
Expand your understanding of the world of business and doing business in dynamic emerging economies. Sharpen your business acumen, management knowledge and leadership skills. Advance your management career.
Expand your understanding of the world of business and doing business in dynamic emerging economies. Sharpen your business acumen, management knowledge and leadership skills. Advance your management career.
Duration:
1 Year (Part-Time)
Qualification:
Post Graduate Diploma
Programme structure:
1 year
Study mode:
Part Time
Academic category:
Generalist degree
Essential Business Skills, Business Law, Marketing & Sales, People Management, Entrepreneurship, Management & Financial Accounting, International Business and Economics, Strategy, Digital Business, Introduction to finance & Project Management
The PDBA will accelerate your understanding of the world of business, advance your general business management knowledge, develop your leadership skills and sharpen your business acumen.
The Wits Business School one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration is for ambitious graduates who want the edge. The WBS PDBA is relevant to the challenges of doing business in South Africa, Africa and other dynamic emerging market economies, and covers key themes relevant to business today including sustainability, entrepreneurial action and critical engagement. The programme is also available in a modular format in June of each year.
The PDBA is a four-quarter programme of approximately 10 weeks per quarter. Classes run on two evenings during the week with occasional classes on Saturdays.
Quarter 1 covers Strategy, Critical Business Skills and Project Management.
Quarter 2 covers Management and Financial Accounting and People Management
Quarter 3 covers Digital Business, International Business and Economics and Introduction to Finance
Quarter 4 covers Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business Law
The key themes of the programme have been designed to complement the MBA curriculum, while being suitable as a stand-alone course.
Key Features
Textbooks are available on www.mind-matters.co.za
*In exceptional cases, non-degreed individuals with working experience are considered.
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Marketing & Sales
Business Administration
Operations Management
Patrick Klostermann
I opted for a WBS PDBA as a springboard to my career, and WBS created an environment where I could achieve excellence through hard work, perseverance, and dedication. I have been pulled, pushed, and stretched to the limit – but it was precisely at that point that I realised that I am capable of more. The PDBA gave me confidence in multiple disciplines and changed the way I view the world, business, and those I live and work with. The growth I experienced was tangible and intoxicating and has only intensified my hunger for knowledge. What you put in is what you get out!
Admissions
0861 000 927 (WBS) 0R
admissions.wbs@wits.ac.za