Kaplan Business School is an Australian independent higher education institution. It started offering degrees in Adelaide in 2008 before expanding across Australia to the other major state capital cities. It is part of Kaplan International, headquartered in London, which is a division of Kaplan Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, formerly known as The Washington Post Company. The Australian Government’s regulator of higher education institutions, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, re-registered Kaplan Business School as a Higher Education Provider in 2020 for the maximum seven year period with no conditions, commending it in the areas of student support and feedback, academic progression of students, academic policy and practice, and its approach to academic integrity. TEQSA also re-accredited all of its postgraduate courses in 2019 for the maximum seven year period. Kaplan Business School operates from seven CRICOS-registered campuses in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, and offers accredited postgraduate programs in business, accounting and business analytics, and accredited undergraduates courses in a number of business-related academic disciplines including accounting, management, marketing, and hospitality and tourism management. According to Department of Education data, Kaplan Business School had 3,068 enrolled students in 2018, with approximately two thirds enrolled in postgraduate degrees. In terms of student load, it had the second largest cohort of students enrolled in the ‘Management and Commerce’ academic discipline of all the non-university higher education institutions in Australia. The Master of Business Administration is its flagship program and fastest growing course. It can be studied wholly online or blended with face-to-face lectures, and in 2018 it was the seventh most popular online MBA program in Australia with 451 students enrolled online. Student satisfaction is above the national sector average, particularly in the areas of teaching quality and student support services, according to Department of Education's Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Student Experience Survey. Recent graduate satisfaction is also above the national average, and the QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey reported that graduates from Kaplan Business School postgraduate programs had higher graduate employment rates and median salaries than the higher education sector average. In the 2019 global PIEonner Awards, run by The PIE News to celebrate innovation and achievement across the worldwide international education industry, Kaplan Business School was one of seven global institutions shortlisted for the Student Support Award. In the following year’s awards, Kaplan Business School was shortlisted for a second consecutive year, this time in two categories: the Progressive Education Delivery Award for its MBA program, and the Employability International Impact Award for its Careers Central service. It was the only organisation to be shortlisted in two separate categories. In 2020, Kaplan Business School expanded its national footprint by expanding into a fifth state, Western Australia, by opening a new campus in Perth despite the COVID-19 crisis, becoming one of only a few non-university providers to offer postgraduate business courses in Perth.
