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, masters degrees and the doctor of business administration, 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 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, human resource management, international business, industrial and
employee relations, logistics management, management, marketing, media sales,
pharmacoeconomics, public policy and management, 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, diplomacy and trade, human resource management, industrial and
employee relations, international business, logistics management, management,
marketing, public policy and management, retail and wholesale management, and
taxation.
Cumulative specialist discipline knowledge courses include postgraduate
diplomas, honours 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 honours 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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