Students develop highly sought after integrated knowledge that combines information technology, management, and business intelligence.

World-class lecturers who are committed to student success help JCU master’s students build on undergraduate knowledge.

The Business Informatics major provides an in-depth understanding of data analysis and decision modelling, business intelligence and data mining, enterprise database systems, and advanced databases and applications.

Depending on the specialisations you choose, your career could see you working anywhere in Australia or internationally in highly creative roles in government, not-for-profits, developing countries or independent corporations. Your options will be extensive. When you graduate your work could include tropical planning and urban design to meet the major challenges facing society today, such as:

• Designing cities, towns and remote communities to cope with climate change
• Population growth and change
• Rapid urbanisation
• Poverty and homelessness
• Conflict over land use
• Planning to include cultural diversity
• Economic development
• Hazard mapping
• Planning sub-divisions
• Ecological sustainability
• Social and planning policy development
• Environment impact assessment
• Environmental law
• Urban and regional planning.

When you graduate, you'll be able to offer special knowledge and skills in tropical planning and policy development. You could even use the communication and political negotiation knowledge you'll gain to establish a career in politics. For those wishing to contemplate planning issues in a scholarly way, your Masters degree could be a stepping-stone towards a career in research.