Milpark Education

Milpark Education

Location
Republic of South Africa
Information
Type	Private Higher Education Institution
Founded	1997^[1]
Number of students	3000+
Key products	Tertiary education, business skills
Website	www.milpark.ac.za

Milpark Education is a South African private educational institution offering business education, established in 1997. It offers both distance learning and contact learning options, although its qualifications are offered primarily via distance learning. Its qualifications are accredited by the Council on Higher Education.

The school has campuses in Melville, Johannesburg and Claremont, Cape Town, as well as a support office in Westville in Durban.

Candidates attending Milpark Education include employed individuals, entrepreneurs and school leavers completing tertiary education.

Courses

Milpark Education offers both contact and distance learning Higher Education (HE) and Further Education and Training (FET) qualifications as well as career-focused short programmes. Short Courses ^[2] are standardised or can be customised and occur over a three- to five-day period. Courses include Bookkeeping / Accounting, Project Management, Administration Management and Computer Skills.

Qualifications

Milpark qualifications are offered via various schools: Business School, Investment and Banking, Financial Planning and Insurance, Commerce and Milpark College. Milpark offers an MBA in General Management, as well as a BBA in this field. It also offers a Bachelor of Commerce^[3] with several majors for specialisation. Graduates from Milpark Education receive qualifications that begin at NQF level 5 and extend to 6 and 7, and culminate in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at NQF level 9. Its qualifications are accredited by the Council on Higher Education.

The following qualifications are available (listed according to School):

Business School

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
Advanced Certificate in Management
Higher Certificate in Management

School of Commerce

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom): General commerce, majors Human Resources Management or Marketing Management
Bachelor of Business Administration

School of Investment and Banking

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) with Banking, Credit or Investment Management majors
Higher Diploma in Banking,
Diploma in Banking,
Advanced Certificate in Banking Services,
Higher Certificate in Banking Services.

School of Financial Planning and Insurance

Higher Certificate in Short-term Insurance
Certificate in Financial Products
Certificate in Financial Planning
National Certificate in Financial Planning
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) with Financial Planning major
Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning.

College: Vocational and FET Programmes^[4]

Bookkeeping and Accounting
Office Administration and Management
Small Business Financial Management
HR Administration and Management

BEE status

Milpark is currently a Level Three Contributor, which is its broad-based BEE status.^[5]

Ranking

References

External links

milpark.ac.za

South African business schools

Business school alliances: South African Business Schools Association

	Eastern Cape	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business School Rhodes Investec Business School - Rhodes University

	Free State	University of the Free State Business School

	Gauteng	CIDA City Campus Henley Business School South Africa Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) - University of Pretoria Milpark Business School Regenesys Business School Regent Business School Southern Business School Tshwane University of Technology Business School University of Johannesburg Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) - University of South Africa Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand

	KwaZulu-Natal	University of KwaZulu-Natal Management College of Southern Africa

	Limpopo	University of Limpopo

	North-West	Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership - North-West University Potchefstroom Business School - North-West University

	Western Cape	University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business University of Stellenbosch Business School

	Distance	Varsity College School of Business and Technology

Rankings

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