Monash University Courses & FeesMelbourne, Australia

This double degree combination offers you genuine breadth of choice, with 39 majors and minors across the arts, humanities and social sciences available to complement your studies in business.

International business provides you with an interdisciplinary understanding of issues affecting contemporary international firms, their strategy, corporate policies and operations. International business develops your knowledge and skills for the international economic, financial, political, legal, managerial and strategic environment of business.

This double degree combination offers you genuine breadth of choice, with 39 majors and minors across the arts, humanities and social sciences available to complement your studies in marketing.

You'll develop marketing skills that can be used in the media industry, and you will also establish a strategic and critical understanding of written, visual and audio communication - and how to apply these skills. By studying complementary subjects, you'll also build on your entrepreneurial expertise and gain practical skills to prepare you for the workplace. With the majors on offer, not only will you have plenty of flexibility and choice, but also a world of opportunity ahead of you.

Marketing will provide you with the analytic, creative and strategic skills to be a specialist marketer. You will gain comprehensive marketing knowledge, and be able to use this to make marketing decisions that drive value in business.

This double degree in marketing and media communication will give you specialist business knowledge, communications skills and the ability to work across a number of industries. It's also a great combination if you're wanting comprehensive knowledge in both fields, as well as an edge in the competitive world of media and business.

You'll develop marketing skills that can be used in the media industry, and you will also establish a strategic and critical understanding of written, visual and audio communication - and how to apply these skills. By studying complementary subjects, you'll also build on your entrepreneurial expertise and gain practical skills to prepare you for the workplace. 

Marketing will provide you with the analytic, creative and strategic skills to be a specialist marketer. You will gain comprehensive marketing knowledge, and be able to use this to make marketing decisions that drive value in business.

Accounting is a strategic function in all organisations and a Bachelor of Accounting is much more than just numbers. You'll learn to apply accounting practices and make strategic decisions about an organisation's financial and non-financial situation, fundamentally driving success.

This degree will give you a solid technical skill set across key areas such as information systems, corporate finance, auditing and assurance, financial reporting and data analysis. You’ll learn to interpret data and develop insights that will help organisations effectively allocate resources and make better business decisions.

This degree offers you the opportunity to complete a professional, highly focussed qualification in finance. It is quantitatively oriented and provides both depth and breadth in finance. You will learn about and apply theory and concepts in finance to enable you to critically evaluate and make decisions regarding capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, foreign exchange, valuation of financial securities and firms, money market dealing, financial forecasting, bonds and stocks and gain a comprehensive exposure to options, future and other derivatives. With this qualification you can aspire to a large number of roles in finance, including group finance director, commodities trader, derivatives trader, investment banker, project finance analyst, trade finance specialist, stockbroker, chief financial officer, mergers and acquisitions specialist, commercial banker, credit analyst, risk manager, corporate finance analyst, finance director, investment advisor, derivative or commodities trader, investment banker or corporate treasurer.

Marketing is the process of creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers. This course is designed for those whose passion is to think and act as professional marketers and possess the know-how for making successful marketing decisions. Marketing studies are combined with a general business education to ensure that you have a broad perspective of business from which to enter and progress your marketing career. You will be able to use your extensive marketing knowledge and skills - analytic, creative, and strategic - to drive value in the business environment.

Every industry needs people with strong business skills to manage and improve the day-to-day operations of organisations. To keep up with growing industry needs, companies are looking for graduates with strong business administration skills. Business Administration is the coordination of business functions and activities. In the Bachelor of Business Administration, you will build a sound conceptual and theoretical foundation from which you can build essential skills for a career in business. You will learn about core business functions and how they are coordinated to achieve business goals whilst having the opportunity to specialise in more than one business discipline. The BBA provides a unique environment with a close connection to teaching staff and other students and opportunities to develop ethical and socially responsible communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to succeed in a competitive and diverse world. Many subjects provide practical experience, real-world case-based projects, collaborative learning, interaction with experts from industry, and job-ready skills. This degree will equip you for careers in public-sector and private enterprises.

The MBA course is designed for emerging career professionals with the capability and ambition to be future leaders. It provides a framework of analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills, and develops the critical personal and professional competencies of participants. The MBA course aims to develop graduates who are global in orientation and socially- responsible practitioners. It focuses on contemporary business and organisational challenges and provides an integrated approach to discipline- based academic content. In emphasising the development of practice-oriented competencies, the course utilises applied projects in each module, and engages with industry experts and practitioners at all stages, including study with international business schools. You will graduate with a portfolio of completed consulting projects to demonstrate your applied skills.

If you are seeking advanced knowledge and expertise in accounting, this course is designed for you. It aims to provide you with the skill set required to successfully operate as a specialist in the accounting profession. This course is suitable for accounting graduates and accountants who wish to extend their knowledge and develop high level expertise across key fields of accounting.

This course offers advanced expertise in quantitative and qualitative finance across a broad range of industry relevant and specific areas of finance. The course is designed for recent finance graduates and professionals within the finance industry. The aim of this qualification is for you to develop applied competence in the mastering, interpretation, reflecting on and application of principles in the broader field of finance. For those who pursue the research pathway through the minor dissertation, you will show evidence of scientific research, application of scientific research methodologies and an ability to reflect thereon in the holistic context of finance.

If you want to meet the academic requirements for admission as an associate member of both CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants in Australia, or entry into the Chartered Accountants' Program of The Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia this is the course for you. This course will provide you with the opportunity to develop your practical and theoretical knowledge and skills in accounting and related business areas to a master's level.

Become empowered as a quantitative citizen. By leveraging open data and the most powerful open source software available today you will learn how to fish, rather than be fed. This course is designed to develop thinking, computing and analytic skills for working with data for evidence-based solutions of today's problems. You will learn how to critically assess information provided by others by sourcing and analysing data yourself, with a strong emphasis on ethical and reproducible methods. This course is suitable for those with undergraduate degrees in quantitative disciplines including mathematics, statistics, computer science and engineering. The content is student-centred, inclusive, accessible and participates will be expected to operate as a connected cohort of like-minded people ready to build a better society.

The focus of this course is the development of management capabilities in the context of dynamic organisational environments. It is aimed at career professionals with an undergraduate degree and work experience, or exceptional students who hold a cognate undergraduate degree, who seek to strengthen their career progression and enhance their management knowledge and skills. This course will develop your capacity as innovative future-ready professional, able to apply specialist knowledge to complex management issues and provide the basis for specialist study in a specified stream of management: managing organisations or people, culture and human resource strategy.

The course is suitable for those who occupy or aspire to management positions in business, government, community, service and non-profit organisations, and is designed to provide you with a comprehensive, intellectually demanding and up-to-date understanding of management/human resource management theory and practice.

This course is designed for experienced professionals in any business domain who seek cutting edge theoretical knowledge and problem solving skills in marketing. The course features a comprehensive, intellectually stimulating, set of marketing concepts and ideas taught by a world class faculty, and will strengthen and enable career progression in a wide range of organisations. It is appropriate for professionals in middle to senior marketing positions or for those aspiring to such positions.

The Global Executive Master of Business Administration course is designed for experienced managers seeking advancement to executive-level positions within or beyond their organisations, professions or sectors. It provides an advanced framework of analytical and strategic problem-solving models, and develops the leadership mindset and executive competencies of participants.

The course aims to develop graduates who are global in orientation and who can lead organisations at a senior level. It emphasises contemporary business and organisational challenges, and provides an integrated approach to discipline-based academic content. The course architecture involves intensive, executive-level modules in Melbourne and international modules that may be undertaken in  Europe, Asia and America, and features applied projects and direct engagement with businesses and industry leaders.

This course is for those interested in the science and practice of applied behaviour analysis in clinic, home, school and work settings. You will be provided with the knowledge and tools to help people with diverse needs to learn new skills, become more independent, and overcome socially important problems, using empirically-supported assessment, teaching, and behaviour support strategies. You will be orientated to the field of behaviour analysis and the major theoretical and professional debates in science and practice. Through the core applied behaviour analysis units, you will gain knowledge and expertise which have theoretical and practical relevance to professionals in a range of contexts, including early intervention, general education, inclusive and special education, and specialised behaviour support. You will be challenged to make connections between research and practice and will be equipped to pursue education-related careers and/or further study in education.

In an age of increasing technological advancements the synergy between science and information technology will only become stronger. IT underpins virtually all areas of science and the world needs graduates who can straddle both.

In this double degree course you will acquire creative and analytical skills to use IT to advance science. This could be anything from designing a stunning visualisation of scientific data, to building an app for fieldwork data collection to setting up the business IT processes to deliver a scientific product via the internet.

Depending on the IT major you choose, you could:

• use your technical skills from software development to create simulations and visualisations for anything from weather forecasting to threatened species population modelling
• apply your creative skills and design flair from interactive media or games development to create an app or game that gets kids excited about science
• use your practical understanding of business information systems to launch a science-enabled online business
• put your networks and security skills to work setting up the scientific instrumentation for tsunami warning or monitoring ice melts in Antarctica.

This course is about the application of computer-based technologies and systems to meet individual and organisational information needs. The course will enable you to gain the knowledge and skills needed to use IT effectively and to use, develop and manage IT-based systems. The flexibility of the course and the range of majors and minors will allow you to explore new areas, develop your strengths in IT and pursue your interests. It is a highly practical course that will prepare you for a career working with information and IT in business, government and industry.

The course covers a wide range of aspects of IT, from technical computing, which focuses on the technology itself, games and interactive media to information and business-related themes, which focus on information needs and the way in which IT can be used to support them. In addition to core studies in fundamental IT concepts, the course provides you with a choice of majors in your preferred fields of study, as well as the option to take a second major within IT or in another discipline. Knowledge and skills in IT coupled with the emphasis on generic skills problem solving, information literacy, communication and presentation skills, project management skills, and the capacity for team work will ensure that you have a firm foundation for a career in IT.

The Master of Information Technology prepares you for work in the information technology industry at the highest levels. It provides you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable you to deal effectively with advanced issues involving the application of information technology in various domains.

The Master of Cybersecurity is a postgraduate degree that provides you with the skills to manage and administer cybersecurity and blockchain and prepares you for careers as security systems analysts, systems designers, data communications specialists or security software engineers or administrators.