Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration with a Digital Transformation Lens (Contact)
Our new Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Business Administration is a one-year qualification focusing on digital transformation. It will enhance your career in any industry and empower you to shift your focus to the digital aspects of a business.
- NQF Level 8
- Course Code: E19BAQ
- 2023 Applications Are Open
- Closing Date Extended: 31 December 2022
Contact PGDip Delivery
Our Contact PGDip is offered on a part-time basis with morning classes held from 6.30am to 9.30am, and the option to opt for Saturday classes. Lectures take the form of blended learning through online and contact sessions. The programme has 12 modules.
PGDip Modules
Orientation and Study Skills
People Management in the New World of Work
Competitive Strategy: Winning in the Digital Marketplace
Accounting and Financial Management
Digital Technologies
Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Digital Age
Economics and International Business
Personal Development
Digital Marketing
Entrepreneurship with a Growth Mindset
Business Law, Ethics and Sustainability in a Digital Era
- E-Business Platforms and Customer-Centric Innovations
Systems Thinking and Complexity
What to expect
The JBS PGDip is structured to develop both soft skills and the practical knowledge of business and technology required for managerial success, including the following:
Soft skills
- People management
- Communication
- Critical thinking
- Personal development
- Collaboration
- Interpersonal skills
- Developing empathy
- Entrepreneurship
- Systems thinking
- Dealing with complexity
Business and technology
Strategy
Digital literacy
Digital marketing
Accounting and financial management
Economics and international business
E-commerce platforms
- Product/Service integration
- Entrepreneurship
- Cloud computing
Business law, ethics and sustainability
Credits
Completing our PGDip course earns students the following six credits towards completing their JBS MBA:
- People management in the new world of work
- Competitive strategy: winning in the digital marketplace
- Accounting and financial management
- Digital technologies
- Operations and supply chain management in the digital age
- Economics and international business
Teaching Approach
Our PGDip is innovative in its approach to teaching. We believe in the importance of an interdisciplinary process that uses business simulations, up-to-date case studies, and focused assignments that involve analysing and solving business problems. Through syndicates, or small groups, we help you to learn from your colleagues and to learn about yourself.
Where possible, we conduct our learning in person, but we also offer online lectures and assignments.
PGDip Faculty
The expert professors of practice who teach our PGDip are involved in businesses, while also serving as passionate academics with interests in various business fields. This combination brings essential practical and theoretical knowledge to our PGDip.
Meet your professors and lecturers
Professor Lungile Ntsalaze
Professor and Head of DPhil Programme at the JBS
Herman Singh
CEO of Future Advisory
Professor of Practice – Digital Technologies
Dr Dino Petrarolo
Senior Vice President of Competitive Capabilities International
Professor of Practice – Operations and Supply-Chain Management
Professor Rija Rijamampianina
Professor of People Experience and Leadership
Philasande Sokhela
Lecturer at the JBS in Digital Marketing
Wayne Moodaley
Senior Lecturer at the JBS in Accounting and Finance
Valter Adao
Chief Executive Office and Digital Leader of Cadena Growth Partners
Professor of Practice – Digital Transformation and Business Innovation
Dr Alistair Mokoena
Country Director Google South Africa
Professor of Practice – Technology and Opportunity
Online PGDip
Our PGDip is conveniently offered online in an asynchronous mode, allowing you the benefit to study in your own time, in your own space. The content of our online MBA is the same as our face-to-face MBA, making this option well suited to students with unique working schedules or who are based outside of Johannesburg.
For more information on our online course
011 559 7600 (Telephone)
066 134 450 (WhatsApp)
Course Structure
The JBS PGDip is a 12-month course broken down into four study quarters.
Teaching blocks in 2022
The JBS PGDip is a 12-month course broken down into four study quarters.
Orientation and Study Skills
Block 1 – 13 January to 19 February 2022
Block 2 – 22 February to 2 April 2022
Block 3 – 5 April to 7 May 2022
Block 4 – 10 May to 9 July 2022
Block 5 – 19 July to 17 September 2022
Block 6 – 20 September to 19 November 2022
Admission
The following requirements are necessary to qualify for the JBS PGDip:
A bachelor’s degree or other NQF Level 7 qualification – this is a prerequisite
An overall average of at least 60% in an undergraduate qualification
Two-years’ work experience
A demonstrated level of maths literacy: an NQF Level 4 matriculation pass in maths or equivalent (preferred but not essential)
Proficiency in English
Successfully completed the admission portfolio forms
Study permit for South Africa if you are an international applicant
NB: Places are limited and due to the competitive nature of our admission process, meeting the above requirements does not guarantee acceptance.
Fees
The total cost for the PGDip is approximately R90,000.
This includes all tuition fees and textbooks but excludes the UJ IT access fee and registration fee. (Approximately R1,040 once off).
