Diploma of Business Administration

Most of your learning and teaching activities will be held in the Swanston Academic Building. RMIT's Swanston Academic Building features wireless connection to printers, the web and specialist learning resources, interactive lecture and tutorial spaces, lectorial theatres, small-group rooms and other innovative learning spaces as well as retail and social spaces.

RMIT offers a variety of learning and teaching approaches including lectures, seminars, workshops, presentations, group discussions and group work.

Through RMIT University’s online learning portal, myRMIT, you will be able to view online resources and learning activities created by lecturers, access course materials via Blackboard, collaborate with lecturers and fellow students, and access your student email account. Educational software, the Learning Hub, resources and printers are accessible on campus via the RMIT wireless network using your own laptop, tablet or smart phone or via computer facilities on-campus. You will be able to access the same software from home using myDesktop.

Ongoing assessment throughout the semester includes reports, presentations, group projects, research projects and practical assignments. To maximise success in this program, all applicants are expected to have above-average IT knowledge and skills.

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate vocational competency.

Opportunities include:

• undertaking a work-integrated learning project for a real business
• gaining experience in a work environment by undertaking a practical work placement. Placements usually commence in February or July and normally involve a two-day placement in a workplace across 1 to 15 weeks of the second semester.
• planning and managing a real conference to demonstrate your organisational skills, ability to manage effective business meetings and work in a team.
• Using a simulated business environment (Practice Firm) to perform work that mirrors real-world roles and responsibilities.

RMIT has a long-standing relationship with Formfile: Australia’s leading provider of Records Management Solutions. Through this partnership:

• business administration students are taught industry best practice for the records management discipline
• work placement are offered by Formfile 
• Formfile acts as a business partner and mentor for the Practice Firm.

Formfile Digital Office 

The digital office project is a dynamic way to assess our students for competence at a current industry standard. There are five key stakeholders: RMIT University, Formfile, ELO Enterprise 9 Software, Kodak and The Practice Firm.

You will learn in a simulated business environment and design an administration system in consultation with Formfile, who provide the standard for best practice modelling and consultation. Kodak equipment is then used to scan documents. Students upload their designs for various administration systems to ELO. Handling paper-based and electronic documents gives you a dynamic experience and a real understanding of what to expect when you graduate and work in industry. The next phase of the digital office experience requires  students to work on a project brief from the Public Records Office Victoria which involves digital archiving.

If you are working, particularly in a job which is related to your studies you will also be learning while at work and may have the opportunity to be assessed in your workplace for some or all of your courses. Feedback from work supervisors and others in the workplace can be used as evidence of competency, and an RMIT University assessor can visit your workplace to observe your work practice.

You will study five core and three elective courses designed to develop your skills in complex administrative practices and improve workplace efficiency.

Topics covered include:

• conference planning and management
• planning and implementing administrative systems and documents
• accounting
• developing and managing business documents
• project work
• leading and managing teams
• time management and professional development