DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS STUDIES

  Institution: Olympia College

PJ – KP/JPS (A 3682) 09/09 Kuantan – KP/JPS (A3703) 09/08

Introduction
As the business landscape continues to evolve, more opportunities are created for individuals who aspire to develop a career in business in the public or private sectors within the national or global arena. The Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) is structured to equip students with the knowledge and skills to become an entrepreneur, administrative and executive personnel. Students are exposed to syllabus involving Management, Human Resource Management and Marketing. With a DBS award, students can further into degree level studies locally and overseas.

Course Duration
Full-time: 2 1/2 years (7 semesters)
Diploma holders require only 2 years to complete their 3+0 degree.

Intakes
January, April, July & September

Entry Requirement for Diploma in Business Studies

• SPM with 3 credits and a pass in English or ‘O’ Levels equivalent qualifications OR 3Bs and a pass in Bahasa Malaysia for UEC qualification.

Grading & Assessment

• Assignments
• Mid-term examinations
• Group projects
• Final examinations

Course Modules

Semester 1-3

• Introduction to Business
• Academic English 1
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Computer Application
• Business Mathematics
• Academic English II
• Business Communication
• Islamic / Moral Studies
• Organisational Behaviour
• Malaysian Studies
• Fundamentals of Marketing

Semester 4-6

• Microeconomics
• Introduction to Finance
• Business Environment
• Business Management
• Macroeconomics
• Statistical Analysis
• Introduction to Operation Management
• Management Information Systems
• Principles of Accounting
• Introduction to Law

Semester 7

• Financial Accounting
• Consumer Behaviour
• Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
• Managing People
• Project

Course Features

• Qualified experienced academic staff
• Study materials specially designed to support the programme
• Advanced standing to transfer to degree programme with UK and Australian universities according to university’s criteria.
• Local Diploma that meets the UK Higher Education standards.

Final award
Diploma in Business Studies

Awarding body
Olympia College

Further Studies
After being awarded the Diploma in Business Studies, students can opt for the Higher National Diploma award from Edexcel Inter-national, UK by completing an integrated project.

Otherwise, students can further their studies in several universities in the UK and Australia through advanced standing either into the second or final year of their undergraduate degree.

There is also an option to undertake Distance Learning programmes or entry into the second year of the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) approved 3+0 degree programmes available through Olympia College.

List of Universities for further studies

UK UNIVERSITIES++

• Anglia Ruskin University
• University of Bedfordshire
• The University of Bolton
• Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
• Canterbury Christ Church University
• University of Central Lancashire
• De Montfort University
• University of Gloucestershire
• University of Greenwich
• Harper Adams University College
• University of Huddersfield
• The University of Lincoln
• London Metropolitan University
• London South Bank University
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• University of Plymouth
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Wales, Newport
• University of Wales, Swansea Institute of Higher Education
• University of Ulster • University of Westminster
• University of the West of England, Bristol
• University of Wolverhampton
• Liverpool John Moores University
• University of East London in partnership with Guildhall College

USA UNIVERSITIES++

• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• University of Denver
• East Carolina University
• Hawaii Pacific University
• Iowa State University
• Johnson & Wales University
• Plattsburgh State University of New York (SUNY)
• San Francisco State University
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Witchita State University
• The University of Tulsa

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES++

• Curtin University, Sydney
• Curtin University of Technology, Sydney
• Edith Cowan University
• Murdoch University
• Queensland University of Technology