Master of Finance (37N)

Finance is at the center of one of the most exciting developments shaping our world. The Master of Finance degree enables you to be a decision maker for the future. 

The skills you develop will open up valuable and satisfying career opportunities across an incredible range of vocations - corporate chief executives and major institutional investors through to fintech unicorns and private capital entrepreneurs. 

Whether you are looking for the qualification to start out in the industry, or you are planning to upskill and accelerate your career, the skills and knowledge you attain in this degree will enable you to achieve.

The degree primes you for a long-term career in finance. You will gain a deep knowledge of global markets and the opportunities they create. Your insights will be informed by industry practitioners, exposure to live market information, and contemporary case studies. 

Practitioner engagement provides a rich experience through industry expert interviews and keynote presentations on current trends in FinTech, Sustainability and Behavioural Insights. Your industry knowledge will be enhanced through local, national and global case studies. Market trading data and real-time financial news will further build your familiarity with global business activity.

The Finance teaching team will facilitate your examination of expert input, current cases and market events through the application of theories, concepts, and market techniques.  

The teams teaching philosophy emphasises the acquisition of life-long financial knowledge and skills through sharing and building on the diverse experiences of all stakeholders within the course, and to foster empowerment and personal responsibility by encouraging students to challenge the conventional paradigms in finance. The implementation of this philosophy through meaningful connection to real world conditions has and continues to be extremely successful.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the context and integrate advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge to analyse and solve complex financial issues in private corporations and public organisations.
• Defend advanced financial information and decisions in complex collaborative contexts involving specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Design, conduct and communicate ethical research into a contemporary issue or problem critical to the finance profession.
• Exercise judgement to design and apply financial solutions using ethical, social, regulatory, economic, sustainability and global perspectives.
• Critically reflect on the responsibilities of the finance profession considering the implications for communities, environment, and wellbeing.

Career Outcomes:

The new Master of Finance course will gain industry recognition from globally recognized professional associations: the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) and CAIA Association. 

Affiliation with these organisations will enable students in the program to benefit from attaining qualifications with globally recognized professional status and access to apply for scholarship offerings from the associated professional body. 

UTAS will benefit from the use of their industry logos on marketing materials and listing on their university alliances websites (and therefore directing search interest to the UTAS sites).

Course Structure:

To graduate from the Master of Finance course, a student must satisfactorily complete 200 credit points of study comprising:

• 50 credit points of Transition units
• 50 credit points of Core units
• 50 credit points of Specialisation units
• 50 credit points of Research/project units, including an option for the student to select either a Research Project or an equivalent project undertaken as a Corporate Internship (Research Block)