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Offered through the School of Biological Sciences, Business School, and Faculty of Law, the MBioEnt program equips scientists with skills to recognize and safeguard their research's worth. Students gain expertise in transforming groundbreaking findings into valuable products, commercialization approaches, essential intellectual property law principles, valuation methods, and business plan development. The program includes a distinctive six-month industry placement, allowing students to apply their knowledge practically. The MBioEnt can be pursued either as a one-year full-time course or spread across two years part-time. Alumni typically find career prospects in biotech firms, pharmaceutical companies, food and beverage sectors, university tech transfer offices, Crown Research Institutes, business development and investment organizations, as well as government bodies.
You must have completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Bioscience Enterprise (PGDipBioEnt) at the University of Auckland with a GPA of 6.0 in at least 90 points.
If you have completed an undergraduate degree (or higher) in science, engineering or technology, you must complete the PGDipBioEnt before applying for this programme.
IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.5 and no bands below 6.0; Internet-based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 90 and written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 68 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 176 and no bands below 169; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 58 and no PTE Communicative score below 50; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of B-; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 85.