Kaplan Business School

Kaplan Business School is an Australian independent higher education institution. It started offering degrees in Adelaide in 2008 before expanding across Australia to the other major state capital cities. It is part of Kaplan International, headquartered in London, which is a division of Kaplan Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, formerly known as The Washington Post Company.[1]

Kaplan Business School
Private
IndustryEducation, Business
HeadquartersSydney, Australia
Area served
Australia
Key people
Robert Regan (Managing Director)

Steve Knussen (Executive Director)

Dr James Adonopoulos (Academic Dean)
ParentKaplan, Inc.
Websitehttps://www.kbs.edu.au

The Australian Government’s regulator of higher education institutions, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), re-registered Kaplan Business School as a Higher Education Provider in 2020 for the maximum seven year period with no conditions, commending it in the areas of student support and feedback, academic progression of students, academic policy and practice, and its approach to academic integrity.  TEQSA also re-accredited all of its postgraduate courses in 2019 for the maximum seven year period. [2]

Kaplan Business School operates from seven CRICOS-registered campuses in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, and offers accredited postgraduate programs in business, accounting and business analytics, and accredited undergraduates courses in a number of business-related academic disciplines including accounting, management, marketing, and hospitality and tourism management. [3]

According to Department of Education data, Kaplan Business School had 3,068 enrolled students in 2018, with approximately two thirds enrolled in postgraduate degrees.  In terms of student load, it had the second largest cohort of students enrolled in the ‘Management and Commerce’ academic discipline of all the non-university higher education institutions in Australia. [4]

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is its flagship program and fastest growing course.[5] It can be studied wholly online or blended with face-to-face lectures, and in 2018 it was the seventh most popular online MBA program in Australia with 451 students enrolled online.[6]

Student satisfaction is above the national sector average, particularly in the areas of teaching quality and student support services, according to Department of Education's Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Student Experience Survey. Recent graduate satisfaction is also above the national average, and the QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey reported that graduates from Kaplan Business School postgraduate programs had higher graduate employment rates and median salaries than the higher education sector average.[7]

In the 2019 global PIEonner Awards, run by The PIE News to celebrate innovation and achievement across the worldwide international education industry, Kaplan Business School was one of seven global institutions shortlisted for the Student Support Award.[8] In the following year’s awards, Kaplan Business School was shortlisted for a second consecutive year, this time in two categories: the Progressive Education Delivery Award for its MBA program, and the Employability International Impact Award for its Careers Central service.  It was the only organisation to be shortlisted in two separate categories.[9]

In 2020, Kaplan Business School expanded its national footprint by expanding into a fifth state, Western Australia, by opening a new campus in Perth despite the COVID-19 crisis, becoming one of only a few non-university providers to offer postgraduate business courses in Perth.[10]

References
  1. "Why KBS? | Kaplan KBS". www.kbs.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  2. Agency, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards (2017-11-03). "Kaplan Business School Pty Limited". www.teqsa.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  3. "Institution Details - Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd". cricos.education.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  4. Department of Education, Skills and Employment-Document library (2019-10-28). "2018 Section 13 Private Universities (Table C) and Non-University Higher Education Institutions | Department of Education, Skills and Employment - Document library, Australian Government". docs.education.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  5. "Kaplan Business School, Australia - Ranking, Courses, Scholarships, Fees & Reviews | IDP Australia". www.idp.com. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  6. "Australia's 10 Biggest Online MBA Programs - MBA News Australia". www.mbanews.com.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  7. "ComparED - Explore and compare institutions and study areas based on real life student experiences". www.compared.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  8. "The PIEoneer Awards 2019 - 2019 Finalists". 2019-11-14. Archived from the original on 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  9. PIE, The. "The PIE Events 2020". thepieevents.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  10. News, The PIE. "Australia: Kaplan Business School to open Perth campus". thepienews.com. Retrieved 2020-05-17.

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