On your way to an MBA, you need Milpark’s dynamic Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration for admission. The PGDip (Business Administration) equips you to excel in the marketplace by providing an immersive experience that gives you a variety of skills, such as critical and strategic thinking, problem-solving, and responsible and ethical leadership. Graduates will receive credits for five modules towards the Milpark MBA, which will enhance their career prospects and assist by reducing the time taken to complete the MBA.
Our PGDBA is designed to equip students aiming to enrol in our MBA with essential skills for success, including critical and strategic thinking, problem-solving, and responsible, ethical leadership.
The PGDip (Business Administration) provides the opportunity for prospective students with an undergraduate degree to gain general and advanced knowledge of business administration and management. Students without management experience can engage in a challenging curriculum covering business acumen essentials, strategic management principles, design thinking for problem-solving, financial management for strategic decision-making, business research for managers, risk and governance, leadership for managers and how to lead an organisation responsibly and in context.
An additional prospect, after completing the qualification, is to enrol for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or a research master’s degree to further career prospects in management and administration. Students who proceed and are admitted to Milpark’s Master of Business Administration degree will receive module exemptions from the PGDip (Business Administration).
The minimum admission requirement is a Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7).
Other / International certificates
Further to the requirements for admission provided above, foreign nationals or South African nationals seeking to apply for admission onto the qualification based on a non-South African/foreign NQF Level 7 equivalent qualification or degree, must obtain, and submit to Milpark, a Certificate of Equivalence from the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) (www.saqa.org.za).
Applicants with non-South African/foreign degree qualifications, are advised to submit their SAQA Certificate of Equivalence at the time of applying online for a Milpark Postgraduate degree.
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