SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS La Trobe Business School recently became the first institution in Australia to join the Business Graduates Association (BGA). Tim Banerjee Dhoul takes a look at its course and campus options, as well its strategic priorities for the future
HISTORY La Trobe University was established in 1964 against a backdrop of increasing demand for higher education in Australia. In 1967, it enrolled its first 552 students – a number which has now grown to more than 34,000. It’s named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, the first lieutenant-governor of Victoria at the colony’s establishment in 1851. Today, the university encourages people to consider its name in the context of conquest and dispossession – since 2005, a La Trobe statue has stood on its head at the main campus. COURSES La Trobe Business School offers a wide- ranging portfolio of programmes through its two departments – the Department of Accounting, Data Analytics, Economics and Finance and the Department of Management and Marketing. Popular postgraduate programmes include a global MBA with a choice of nine specialisations, a master’s in international business and a master’s in biotechnology management, all of which are taken over two years when studied full time.
LOCATION La Trobe University is based in Melbourne, Australia’s second-most populous city and a leading financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. Its primary campus is spread across 235 hectares of bushland in Bundoora, a suburb to the city’s north-east. There is also a campus in Melbourne’s central business district, at which some of La Trobe Business School’s programmes are available, such as its two-year master’s degree in business analytics. Business students can also study at the university’s network of regional campuses across Victoria (including the city of Bendigo), as well as in Sydney, New South Wales.
36 Business Impact • ISSUE 4 • 2023
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