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Program Description
Program Objectives
Program Structure
Sample Program
Academic Rules
Fees
Area(s) of Specialisation

Program Summary

 
Faculty: Faculty of Commerce and Economics
 
 
Contact: http://www.fce.unsw.edu.au/mcom
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Typical Duration: 1.5 Years
 
 
Typical UOC Per Session: 24
 
 
Min UOC Per Session: 6
 
 
Max UOC Per Session: 24
 
 
Min UOC For Award: 72
 
 
Award(s):
 
 
Master of Commerce (Minor)
 
 
Master of Commerce (Specialisation)
 
 

Program Description

The Master of Commerce program has a long and distinguished history in providing high quality, relevant business education to graduates who wish to broaden their undergraduate business degree and those from non-business backgrounds wishing to develop their skills and knowledge in business. The Master of Commerce program is taught on-campus. The typical program duration is 1.5 years full-time, or 3 years part-time.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The program has been designed to:
  • Provide students with a fundamental grounding in commerce/business.
  • Allow students to pursue in-depth study of their chosen discipline.
  • Ensure students are equipped with a breadth and depth of generic and disciplinary knowledge and skills which can be applied to a range of complex business problems and contexts over time.
  • Allow students to place their disciplinary specialisation in the wider context of commercial activity.

Program Structure

The Master of Commerce consists of 12 courses (4 core courses, 6 disciplinary courses and 2 elective courses).

Core Courses
To be taken at the start of the program.
To be taken at the end of the program.

Disciplinary Courses
The disciplinary courses selected will depend on the chosen specialisation. 15 specialisations are available within the MCom program.
Each specialisation includes 2 disciplinary core courses. The remaining 4 disciplinary courses may be prescribed or selected from a list.
Specialisations available in 2005 are:
  • Accounting
  • Strategic Value Management
  • Finance
  • Banking
  • Funds Management
  • International Business
  • International Finance
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Business Law
  • Organisation and Management Studies
  • Human Resource Management
  • Business Strategy
  • Marketing
  • Tourism Marketing
  • Information Systems

Elective Courses
Elective courses may be taken within the same disciplinary stream as the specialisation, or any disciplinary stream available in the MCom program.

Sample Program

The following sample program is for a full-time student undertaking Accounting as a specialisation.

First Session
plus the first disciplinary core course for Accounting:

Second Session
The second disciplinary core course for Accounting:
plus 3 more disciplinary courses for Accounting:

Third Session
1 more disciplinary course for Accounting and 2 elective courses:
plus the final core course:

Academic Rules

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following web-page:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html


Area(s) of Specialisation

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