A wide range of graduate programs in business and economics is offered for
students with different backgrounds and with different aspirations. They differ
in terms of objectives, prerequisites, content and fees. There are three main
categories: executive certificates, graduate certificates, graduate diplomas
and masters degrees which are professionally oriented and provide a
cross-disciplinary training to develop professional expertise; masters degrees
which develop and extend the knowledge of the particular discipline gained in
the relevant graduate diploma; and postgraduate diplomas, masters degrees and
the PhD which extend and develop knowledge of a particular discipline gained in
the undergraduate degree.
The professionally oriented executive certificates, graduate certificates,
graduate diplomas and some masters degrees are aimed at providing skills for
improving graduates' capacity in a wide range of business and government
positions. For the most part they are available to graduates with a pass degree
in any area of study together with relevant employment experience; entry to
executive certificates is available to candidates without a first degree who
have extensive relevant employment experience. Full-time, part-time, flexible
learning and off-campus distributed learning modes are available. Areas of
study include accounting, agribusiness, Asian business, banking and finance,
business administration, business law, commerce, diplomacy and trade,
economics, econometrics, electronic commerce, family business, food and
beverage, health economics, hospitality management, human resource management,
international business, industrial and employee relations, logistics
management, management, marketing, media sales, pharmacoeconomics, regional
economic development, retail and wholesale studies, risk management, taxation
and wine technology.
The combined knowledge development and knowledge extension masters degrees
build upon the cross-disciplinary knowledge gained in the relevant graduate
diploma by developing specialist discipline knowledge at the masters level.
They are available to graduates with either a graduate diploma or an honours
degree in the relevant discipline. Areas of study include agribusiness, banking
and finance, human resource management, industrial and employee relations,
international business, logistics management, management, marketing,
organisational systems, retail and wholesale management, and taxation.
Cumulative specialist discipline knowledge courses include postgraduate
diplomas, masters degrees and the PhD. Postgraduate diplomas in advanced
accounting, commerce, economics, financial management, health economics and
evaluation, and marketing are available to candidates with a pass degree in the
relevant discipline. The masters degrees are available to candidates with an
honours degree or an equivalent postgraduate diploma in the proposed area of
study and involve a mixture of advanced coursework and the preparation of a
research thesis. Specialist disciplines available for study in cumulative
specialist discipline knowledge courses include accounting, banking, economic
history, economics, econometrics, finance, management and marketing. A number
of Commonwealth Government and Monash University scholarships are available to
students undertaking research degrees.
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