Australian Graduate School of Management


The Australian Graduate School of Management is a postgraduate management and business school that is part of the UNSW Business School at the University of [New South Wales], in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The AGSM offers general management, executive and leadership development programs.
AGSM offers Fulltime MBA, , and in Australia and online. For many years the school's MBA program has been ranked by the Financial Times as the best in Australia.

History

In 1977, UNSW established the AGSM as New South Wales' second school of postgraduate management studies. In January 1999, the AGSM and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Sydney merged under the AGSM brand. In November 2005, the universities demerged their business schools and the AGSM reverted to wholly UNSW ownership.
One year later, UNSW merged the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics, creating the Faculty of Business.
In mid-2007, the faculties physically combined, and moved into UNSW's newly renovated Heffron Building, which UNSW renamed the Australian School of Business Building.
In 2011 Professor Chris Styles was appointed as Deputy Dean and Director AGSM, and the Master of Business & Technology program was added to AGSM offering. In June 2014, Professor Julie Cogin was appointed Director of AGSM, following the elevation of Professor Styles to Dean of the UNSW Business School. The current Director of AGSM is .

Programs

The AGSM offers a full-time MBA program in Sydney which generally takes 12 months to complete. Alternatively, students can complete one of two part-time MBAs - AGSM MBA or the MBAX, an AGSM Graduate Certificate.

Rankings

Rankings of the AGSM's MBA programs include the following:
  • #1 MBA Program in Australia, Financial Times 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
  • #1 MBA Program in Australia and Asia, Forbes bi-annual survey 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
  • #1 MBA Program in Australia, Financial Times 2001-2007
  • #1 MBA in Australia, Forbes magazine
  • #4 MBA in the world, QS Online MBA Rankings 2020
  • #8 MBA in the world, Forbes Global MBA Rankings 2019
  • #9 MBA in the FT Online MBA Rankings 2019

    Alumni

The List of [University of New South Wales alumni|UNSW Business School has over 83,000 Alumni]. There are over 16,500 alumni of the AGSM MBA and MBT programs. Notable alumni include: