Postgraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Master of Business Administration/Master of Risk Management

Course code: 3191 + Course abbreviation: MBusAdm/MRiskMgt + Caulfield + On-campus + Day, evening + Five semesters full-time, 10 semesters part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Peter Reed + Total credit points required: 120

This double-degree course aims to provide a broad-based foundation in business and management while providing specialist knowledge and skills in risk management.

Admission requirements

Applicants need to have completed:

• a degree from a recognised tertiary institution with an average grade of credit or above, and
• a minimum of two years relevant full-time post-degree work experience, preferred four years.

Advanced standing

No external credits are allowable for a double-degree program. However, a maximum of two preclusions (substitutions) against the MBA core is possible. This has the effect of reducing the MBA core and adding an extra elective unit for each preclusion granted.

Fees

• Local student fees: $18,400 per annum ($2300 per unit)
• International student fees: $22,000 per annum ($2500 per unit)

The fees quoted are provided as a guide only and are subject to final approval by the university late in 2003. For future years of your course, Monash University reserves the right to adjust annual tuition fees to take into account increases in university and course delivery costs. However, Monash University undertakes that any adjustment factor will not exceed 10 per cent per annum.

Course structure

(a) Students must complete 10 core units (60 credit points):

• MBA9001 Managerial and leadership skills
• MBA9002 The legal environment of business
• MBA9003 Economics for managers
• MBA9004 Accounting for business
• MBA9005 Corporate finance
• MBA9006 Marketing
• MBA9007 Business analysis and planning
• MBA9008 Managing people at work
• MBA9009 Information systems
• MBA5005 Strategic management

(b) Students must complete 10 units (60 credit points) from the Master of Risk Management as follows:
(i) Eight core units (48 credit points):

• AFF9020 Introduction to risk principles
• AFF9770 Risk financing and treasury management
• BTF9760 Risk control and the law
• ETX9250 Quantitative methods for risk analysis
• BTF4031 Insurance law
• AFF4031 The principles of risk transfer
• AFF5011 Issues in risk management
• AFF5021 Case studies in risk management

(ii) Two units (12 credit points) as follows:

• One 4000-level unit (choose from any discipline within any faculty at Monash University, subject to approval from the faculty concerned and the course director of the Master of Risk Management program).
• One 5000-level unit (choose from any discipline within any faculty at Monash University, subject to approval from the faculty concerned and the course director of the Master of Risk Management program).

Students would normally complete the 10 core MBA units before undertaking electives as part of the Master of Risk Management program.

Previous page | Next page | Section contents | Title and contents