This highly-specialised and dynamic program trains you to perform high-level financial and economic analysis at management level in both public and private sectors. Economics as a discipline is constantly evolving to help us understand how and why we allocated resources. It analyses important issues such as poverty, inflation, unemployment, taxes, pollution, crime, finance, inequality, international competition, consumer behaviour, world trade and economic growth. This program provides the knowledge and skills required in the management of enterprises in both the public and private sectors. This involves both a broad-based multidisciplinary approach and the opportunity for focused, professional training in areas such as economics and finance. You will complete core business, economics and finance courses and build on your classroom learning through a compulsory industry placement during the third year. You may also choose to study overseas.

Graduates are prepared for a broad spectrum of occupations ranging from banking, stockbroking, funds management, insurance and superannuation industries or in other private sector or government organisations where high level, technical expertise in financial or economic analysis is needed. Past graduates have been employed in a wide range of roles including: treasury dealer stockbroker business analyst researcher financial accountant financial planner corporate lending analyst client service manager financial software consultant.