Monash University
Master of Global Business and Advanced Finance
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 24 months
- Course Type: Master's
Gain an advanced understanding of the global issues and challenges faced by businesses and their decision making.
Course overview
In this double degree, you’ll progress the financial know-how you’ve been developing throughout your work and study to a more advanced level, while gaining a greater understanding of the global business climate. A stronger sense for the challenges and the opportunities influencing businesses at an international scale will help you leverage your financial expertise – so you can contribute to the world’s financial markets in more positive, more sustainable ways as well.
Through the Master of Global Business you will gain the knowledge and skills to better understand the global environment in which businesses operates and the challenges faced operating across different global financial markets. For those who seek a career in global business, you will find that the knowledge and quantitative skills acquired through the Master of Advanced Finance will provide you with advanced insight in investment valuation, corporate financial decision making and sustainable finance leveraging on machine learning and big data.
Key facts
What you will study
To complete the Master of Global Business and Advanced Finance, students must fulfil 16 units (96 credit points), consisting of Master of Global Business units (48 credit points) and Master of Advanced Finance units (48 credit points).
Mastery of Knowledge
Core units (36 credit points)
- Global business (six credit points)
- Global trade governance (six credit points)
- Global sustainable operations and supply chain management (six credit points)
- International trade policy (six credit points)
- Geo-politics and business globalization (six credit points)
- Intercultural communication and negotiation (six credit points)
Electives (12 credit points)
Students must complete two of the following units:
- Sustainable business and innovation (six credit points)
- Business ethics in a global environment (six credit points)
- International institutions and organisations (six credit points)
- Strategic management (six credit points)
- Business practice 1 (six credit points)
- Business practice 2 (12 credit points)
- Engaging with international business 1 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 2 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 3 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 4 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 5 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 6 (six credit points)
- Engaging with international business 7 (12 credit points)
- European business and society 1 (12 credit points)
- European business and society 2 (six credit points)
- Industry placement 1 (six credit points)
- Industry placement 2 (12 credit points)
- Consulting project 1 (six credit points)
- Consulting project 2 (12 credit points)
Entry requirements
To be considered for admission into this course, applicants need to have one of the following qualifications:
- An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) with a major or minor* in finance with at least a high credit (65 per cent) average or equivalent Grade Point Average (GPA).
- An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) and having passed the level I CFA examination or equivalent membership of a recognised professional finance program.
A minor is at least four units (equivalent to 24 Monash credit points).
English language requirements
For entry to Monash University, you must meet the minimum English language requirements. You can do this by completing one of the qualifications listed on their website.
If you've completed several measures of English proficiency over a period of time, the highest valid measure will be accepted as long as it's been taken within the required time limitations.
Recognition of Prior Learning
You may be able to get credit for your course based on prior formal, non-formal or informal learning. To apply, you will need to provide supporting documentation outlined by the university. Contact the university for more information.
Outcomes
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will:
- Be critical and creative scholars who produce innovative solutions to problems, apply research skills to business challenges and communicate effectively and perceptively.
- Be responsible and effective global citizens who, engage in an internationalised world, exhibit cross-cultural competence and demonstrate ethical values.
- Be able to incorporate a diversity of world views, to develop and build solutions that address the issues of sustainable development, social development, social responsiblity and strategic decision making.
- Have the ability to critically appraise and apply the knowledge gained to broad range of firms and organisations operating globally.
- Have acquired the necessary reflective and analytical skills to engage in life-long learning.
- Show a comprehensive understanding of their discipline and be able to provide discipline based solutions relevant to the business, professional and public policy communities we serve.
- Demonstrate judgement, creativity and application of advanced quantitative finance theories and methods in an ethical manner in financial markets, related intermediaries and finance divisions of large corporations.
Fees and FEE-HELP
Average 2025 first-year fee: $37,100 (domestic full-fee paying place)
All costs are calculated using current rates and are based on a study load of 24 credit points (normally four units) per semester or 48 credit points (normally eight units) per year.
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of units studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.