How to Become a Business Analyst: Australian Careers in Project Management

Equip yourself with the skills employers demand, and fast track your way to a rewarding and dynamic career in data analytics with the online Master of Analytics at UNSW.

Through this recognised course, you’ll develop highly technical programming-language and cloud-based-systems skills to become an expert in the design and implementation of successful organisational change programs. You’ll have the opportunity to integrate your knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program in a professional context by collaborating on an industry project in your capstone course.

Gain the skills to take complex information and translate it into simple and powerful data stories that influence stakeholders, while also learning to navigate the ethical dilemmas of data.

Depending on your career goals, you can tailor your program studies with a specialisation in either General Analytics or Marketing Analytics.

Designed with the busy individual in mind, this 100% online course allows you to learn each subject in seven-week blocks. This allows you to study in an accelerated manner, and graduate in as little as two years while working full time.

Solve complex business problems and make an impact. Use data science and analytics to ask the right questions, build the right programs, and create powerful solutions–no matter your professional background.

In La Trobe’s Master of Data Science course, you’ll learn how to process complex data, apply statistical modelling, and use programming languages while studying 100 per cent online.

You’ll work with real data sets from our industry partners in our virtual lab supported by Microsoft. The lab allows you to practice and perfect your skills with open-source software and platforms, programming languages, Big Data and cloud-based services, so you graduate with hands-on experience.

Choose an industry-focused specialisation in Big Data and Cloud Computing or Data Modelling and Analytics.

You can complete the course in 14 months with combined skill sets that enable you to use Big Data to identify and solve challenges, manage programs that manage Big Data, or build a program from the ground up.

As a data scientist, Payscale reports that your average salary would be AU$91,857 per year, with the top 10 per cent earning AU$129,000. With skills in machine learning, Python, R and statistical analysis, the salary is higher. A graduate diploma and a graduate certificate are also available so that managers or professionals in a technical role can better understand the foundation of data science and make evidence-based decisions.

The online Graduate Certificate in Analytics at UNSW is designed for those who see the growing number and diversity of employment opportunities where data analytical capabilities are required and where premium salaries are being offered.

Courses are delivered online in seven-week intensive blocks, which means you could graduate with a Graduate Certificate in Analytics in as little as 8 months.

The Graduate Certificate provides you with the skills employers demand, in a fast-tracked model, plus gives you a pathway to study the Graduate Diploma in Analytics and the Master of Analytics.  

The online Graduate Diploma in Analytics at UNSW will give you the foundational skills that the industry demands plus the soft skills to influence business decisions at senior management levels.

Subject areas will enable you to become an expert in how to design and implement successful organisational change programs, and in Data and Ethics, where you’ll learn how to navigate ethical dilemmas in analytics that guide decisions and behaviours.

This course can be fast-tracked so you could finish in 16 months.

It is also a pathway to study the online Master of Analytics, should you choose to go further.

If you are a naturally organised person and are looking to start a career in business administration then this BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business (Administration) qualification from Open Colleges could be a fantastic choice for you. Business activity is on the rise in Australia and outlook for the creation of new clerical roles is great, with 342,000 new roles to be created in the industry by 2025 (Source: Australian Government Job Outlook), so if you’re after an in-demand career this could be an ideal opportunity.

Completing this Certificate IV qualification will enable you to competently perform in any of the many administrative and clerical roles required by the modern businesses. You will gain all the contemporary business administration and communication skills by studying subjects such as how to apply communication strategies in the workplace, build effective business relationships, write complex documents, design and produce complex spreadsheets and how to use digital technologies to collaborate in a work environment.

By the end of this course you will be equipped with all the knowledge you need to become an administration star for any business or organisation, so start studying today!

Please note: This is a fee-for-service course, it is not government funded.

If you are looking to grow your career in business management, or to formalise the skills gained through previous business leadership experience, then this BSB40520 Certificate IV in Leadership and Management and BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business dual qualification from Open Colleges could be a great option.

The course is designed by industry professionals and aims at giving you all the modern and relevant leadership and management skills in demand by contemporary businesses. You will gain knowledge that is crucial to successfully managing any business through studying subjects such as how to create and coordinate business operational plans, how to apply critical thinking to work practices, how to effectively lead and facilitate business teams, how to use digital technologies to collaborate in a work environment and how to demonstrate leadership in the workplace. By the end of the course you will be well placed to effectively and efficiently manage teams and business processes in almost any sector.

As a part of this course, you will also receive a 12-month affiliate membership with the Institute of Managers and Leaders and the Australian Institute of Office Professionals (AIOP), which will give you access to a range of benefits, such as events, and online resources.

Please note: This is a fee-for-service course, it is not government funded.

This 100% online Graduate Certificate in Information Communications Technology from University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) focuses on four courses that you can complete in 8 months online, at the times and locations best for you.

You’ll learn first-hand from lecturers who share their real-world challenges and solutions with you in managing and visualising data, programming, and management informatics.

Know how to manage data, one of the most important assets of a business: understand the need for data privacy and security, manage and use data to continually transform organisations, use programming and visualising data skills to tell the story of data and solve challenges and gain an ITS Python certification, a highly marketable, globally recognised certification that’s embedded into the program.

Explosion in the availability of data and data analytics tools has enabled business to operate more efficiently and profitably, but is your business using data to its full potential? If you’re not sure, then this Data Insights for Business short course from Australian Institute of Management (AIM) Education and Training could give you the answer.