Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
The mission of the faculty is to use its scale, scope and unique internal diversity to become an international leader in the pursuit, dissemination and analysis of knowledge, particularly in the disciplines of accounting, banking, econometrics, economics, finance, management, marketing and tourism. By the application of that knowledge, its staff and students will contribute to the economic, social and commercial development of Australia and other countries.
The term `Faculty of Business and Economics' in the wider sense includes all students enrolled for degrees, executive certificates, graduate diplomas and certificates offered by the faculty, and all staff (academic, administrative, technical and clerical) attached to the campuses which make up the faculty.
The faculty is a body established under university statute. It is made up of members of the teaching staff and other persons as appointed by university council. The responsibility for making decisions in the faculty lies with the faculty board, which comprises heads of schools and departments, representatives of the teaching staff, student members (international, undergraduate and postgraduate), representatives of other faculties and the library. Except in certain matters on which it has power to act, the faculty board makes recommendations to the Academic Board and through the Academic Board to the Council of the university.
The faculty also has a number of committees including an executive committee, undergraduate and graduate studies committees and committees for research, library, technical and computer services, budgets, quality assurance, admissions and credit transfer, open learning and distance education and advertising and public relations.
The dean, as chief executive officer of the faculty, provides academic leadership to the faculty, presides over meetings of the faculty board and its committees and exercises a general superintendence over the educational and administrative affairs of the faculty.
The faculty registrar is responsible for the administration of the faculty with a particular concern for matters relating to university statutes, faculty regulations, the provision of advice on policy to faculty board and its related committees and student services management. The faculty registrar, together with the campus executive officers and the administrative officers, are available to attend to the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students within the faculty. The director, finance and resources is responsible for the efficient and effective management of the faculty's financial and resource activities.
+ Accounting and Finance - Clayton
+ Business Management - Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula
+ Econometrics - Caulfield, Clayton, Peninsula
+ Economics - Clayton
+ School of Business and Electronic Commerce* - Berwick, Gippsland
+ Syme Business School - Frankston, Peninsula
+ Syme Department of Accounting - Caulfield, Peninsula
+ Syme Department of Banking and Finance - Caulfield, Peninsula
+ Syme Department of Marketing - Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Peninsula
Each department and school holds regular departmental meetings which report to faculty board.
During 1994, Monash University and the Mt Eliza Australian Management College together established the Monash Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Limited, known as the Monash Mt Eliza Business School. From 1995, the school has been responsible for the teaching of MBA courses and some other management related courses for the university. Students who were enrolled in such courses before the beginning of 1995 remain students of the university. Students now enrol through the Monash Mt Eliza Business School.
* Subject to final university approval.
Bachelor degrees Campus
Generalist degrees with a choice of discipline major
+ Bachelor of Business, Gippsland,
majors in accounting, economics, management Distance education
marketing and tourism management
+ Bachelor of Business Studies, Open learning
majors in accounting, banking and finance,
management, marketing and another discipline
+ Bachelor of Commerce, Clayton
majors in accounting and finance, economics,
econometrics, management and another discipline
+ Bachelor of Economics, Clayton
majors in economics, econometrics,
accounting and finance, and another discipline
offered within the university. Half of all
subjects can be taken outside the faculty.
Discipline-specific degrees
+ Bachelor of Accounting Clayton
+ Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Caulfield, Peninsula,
Open learning
+ Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) Caulfield,
Distance education
+ Bachelor of Business (Business Administration) Caulfield, Peninsula
majors in human resource management, management,
manufacturing management and another discipline
+ Bachelor of Business (International Trade), Caulfield, Peninsula
sequences in foreign business language and
general business
+ Bachelor of Business (Management) Caulfield, Peninsula
+ Bachelor of Business (Manufacturing Management) Caulfield
+ Bachelor of Business (Marketing) Caulfield
+ Bachelor of Business (Retail Management) Distance education
+ Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) Clayton
majors in accounting and finance
+ Bachelor of Commerce (Business Statistics) Clayton
majors in business statistics, econometrics
or another discipline
+ Bachelor of Commerce (Strategic Management) Clayton
majors in management, including some marketing,
public sector management, human resource
management, industrial and employee relations
and organisation behaviour subjects
Some similarities and differences exist in these bachelors courses. Guidance is frequently sought as to why a prospective applicant should select one course instead of another. The following information may be helpful.
+ Major sequences are available in one or two disciplines during the second and third years.
+ Students are provided with the skills to understand and analyse the Australian and international economies.
+ Australian and international students are provided with skills and experiences to enable them to embark on an interesting and productive career over a lifetime as educated people.
+ Selected students, who achieve excellent results in their first three years of study, have the opportunity to do an honours degree.
+ The specialist discipline Bachelor of Commerce degrees offered at Clayton allow more subjects to be studied within the specified discipline area, but otherwise allow the flexibility of choice available in the generalist degree.
+ The specialist discipline Bachelor of Business degrees offered at the Caulfield and Peninsula campuses provide a general multidiscipline business base of normally thirteen compulsory subjects while also focussing on a particular specialisation or discipline. Courses are structured in accordance with the requirements of the specialised discipline major.
+ While all campuses teach their courses in the on-campus study mode, some courses are also offered by distance education, and teaching in some courses is also available through Open Learning Australia. Students undertaking the undergraduate courses on the Clayton and Peninsula campuses are almost entirely school-leavers with the majority studying full-time. The Caulfield campus enrolments include many part-time students, as well as full-time students, and the campus has evening classes. More than seventy per cent of the students enrolled at the Gippsland campus are studying by distance education.
Honours degrees Campus
+ Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) Clayton
+ Bachelor of Business (Honours) Caulfield, Peninsula
and Gippsland
+ Bachelor of Business (Accounting) (Honours) Caulfield
+ Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Clayton
+ Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Clayton
Degrees from this faculty Campus
Generalist degrees with a choice of discipline major
+ Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Tourism Berwick
+ Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics Clayton
Discipline-specific degrees
+ Bachelor of Business (Accounting)/ Caulfield
Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)
+ Bachelor of Business (Accounting)/ Caulfield, Peninsula
Bachelor of Business (Management)
+ Bachelor of Business (International Trade)/ Peninsula
Bachelor of Business (Management)
+ Bachelor of Business (Management)/ Caulfield
Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
Degrees from this faculty Degrees from other faculties
Generalist degrees with a choice of discipline majors
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(Humanities and Social Sciences)
Bachelor of Applied Science
Bachelor of Communication
Bachelor of Computing
Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Tourism
+ Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Business Systems
Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Music
+ Bachelor of Communication Bachelor of Tourism
+ Bachelor of Economics Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Laws
Discipline-specific degrees
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(Accounting) Bachelor of Computing
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(Banking and Finance) Bachelor of Computing
Bachelor of Laws
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(International Trade)
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(Management) Bachelor of Laws
+ Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Arts
(Marketing)
Where students meet the entry and course requirements for each degree, they can, if admitted to the second degree course, complete it with a minimum of the equivalent of one additional full-time year's study.
The Bachelor of Economics allows significant flexibility in the choice of subjects from other disciplines or faculties, so by appropriate choice of subjects a second degree in arts, science or computing and also commerce can be completed after the equivalent of a further year's full-time study.
Students undertaking any of the Bachelor of Business degrees with a specified major have the opportunity to take out a second business degree in another specialisation with the completion of a minimum of eight additional subjects in one year's further study.
Bachelor of Business/ Associate Diploma of Business in Hospitality Supervision Bachelor of Tourism/ Associate Diploma of Business in Hospitality Supervision Bachelor of Tourism/ Associate Diploma of Business (Marketing) Bachelor of Business/ Associate Diploma in Hospitality Supervision, Travel or Tourism* The above awards are conducted in conjunction with Casey TAFE, Berwick * Subject to final university approval.
Course Campus
+ Master of Banking Caulfield
+ Master of Business (Accounting) Caulfield
+ Master of Business (Agribusiness) Peninsula
+ Master of Business (Banking and Finance) Caulfield
+ Master of Business (International Business) Caulfield
+ Master of Business (Logistics Management) Peninsula
+ Master of Business (Operations Management) Caulfield
+ Master of Commerce Clayton
+ Master of Economics Clayton
+ Master of Industrial and Employee Relations Clayton
+ Master of Management Clayton
+ Master of Marketing Caulfield
+ Master of Organisational Systems Caulfield
+ Master of Practising Accounting Caulfield
+ Master of Professional Accounting Clayton
+ Master of Public Policy and Management Clayton
+ Master of Taxation Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Accounting Caulfield, Clayton,
Gippsland
+ Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting Caulfield, Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Peninsula
+ Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Business Management Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Commerce Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in Economic Studies Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in Economics Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in Financial Management Caulfield,
CBD Melbourne
+ Graduate Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in Industrial & Employee Relations Clayton
+ Graduate Diploma in International Business Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Logistics Management Peninsula
+ Graduate Diploma in Operations Management Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Marketing Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma in Taxation Caulfield
+ Graduate Diploma of Business (Banking) Gippsland
+ Graduate Diploma of Business Gippsland
(Labour Management Relations)
+ Graduate Diploma of Business (Management) Gippsland
+ Graduate Diploma of Business (Tourism Management) Gippsland
+ Graduate Certificate in Accounting Caulfield
+ Graduate Certificate in Internal Caulfield
+ Graduate Certificate in Auditing Management Caulfield
+ Graduate Certificate of Business Caulfield
+ Graduate Certificate of Business (Banking) Gippsland
+ Graduate Certificate of Business (Management)* Gippsland
+ Graduate Certificate of Business Gippsland
(Tourism Operations)
+ Executive certificates (various disciplines) Caulfield, Gippsland
Peninsula
* Subject to final university approval.
Course Campus
+ Doctor of Philosophy Caulfield, Clayton,
Gippsland, Peninsula
+ Master of Business Caulfield, Gippsland
Peninsula
+ Master of Commerce Clayton
+ Master of Economics Clayton
+ Master of Management Clayton
* Subject to final university approval.