Australian Graduate School of Management


The Australian Graduate School of Management is a postgraduate management and business school that is part of the UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The AGSM offers general management, executive and leadership development programs.
AGSM offers Fulltime MBA, , and in Australia and online. For many years the school's MBA program has been ranked by the Financial Times as the best in Australia.

History

In 1977, UNSW established the AGSM as New South Wales' second school of postgraduate management studies. In January 1999, the AGSM and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Sydney merged under the AGSM brand. In November 2005, the universities demerged their business schools and the AGSM reverted to wholly UNSW ownership.
One year later, UNSW merged the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics, creating the Faculty of Business.
In mid-2007, the faculties physically combined, and moved into UNSW's newly renovated Heffron Building, which UNSW renamed the Australian School of Business Building.
In 2011 Professor Chris Styles was appointed as Deputy Dean and Director AGSM, and the Master of Business & Technology program was added to AGSM offering. In June 2014, Professor Julie Cogin was appointed Director of AGSM, following the elevation of Professor Styles to Dean of the UNSW Business School. The current Director of AGSM is .

Programs

The AGSM offers a full-time MBA program in Sydney which generally takes 16 months to complete. Alternatively, students can complete one of two part-time MBAs - AGSM MBA or the MBAX, an AGSM Graduate Certificate, and a range of short course executive education programs. A rich offering of opportunities to explore international study is offered across most Award programs.
In 2015 the highly respected Master of Business & Technology was transitioned into the globally-recognised MBAX Program.

Rankings

Rankings of the AGSM's MBA programs include the following:
The main campus is located at the University of New South Wales in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney 15 minutes from the CBD. The AGSM Building houses teaching facilities, administrative services, a common room, syndicate rooms and a cafe. It also has accommodation facilities for students in Residential programs and for visitors. Students have access to the facilities of the Business School on the same campus including additional teaching and study spaces.
AGSM also has a central Sydney city campus and satellite facilities in the ACT, Melbourne and Perth.
UNSW, established in 1949, is one of the top 100 universities in the world, with more than 59,000 students and a 7,000-strong research community.

Student body

The full-time MBA program has one intake per year, usually with over 50 students. The student body organises a number of clubs focusing on disciplines such as marketing, finance, corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship. The part-time programs have approximately 1,500 students at any point in time.

Notable alumni

The UNSW Business School has over 83,000 Alumni. There are over 16,500 alumni of the AGSM MBA and MBT programs. Notable alumni include: