The School of Banking and Finance at UNSW Business School offers an outstanding Honours degree that is open to all high-achieving undergraduate students, even if you are not currently studying at UNSW. Financial support is available to many Honours students through tutoring and research assistant work.
The Honours degree in the School of Banking and Finance is open to students who have demonstrated a strong performance in the BCom Pass program with a major in finance and have completed a minimum of eight finance courses (one of which must be FINS3775 Research Methods in Finance 1 or ECON3206). An overall Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of at least 75 and a finance discipline major WAM of at least 75 are required to qualify for acceptance into the highly sought after degree.
Students enrolled in concurrent degrees at UNSW may undertake the Honours year prior to or after their second degree.
As the finance discipline is an innovative discipline, it is recommended that not more than two years should have passed since the completion of your undergraduate degree and your application to commence the honours degree in Banking and Finance.
The Banking and Finance Honours degree provides introductory and rigorous research training to assist in tackling the financial issues and challenges encountered in future careers. While the undergraduate Pass degree provides a context for studying present professional methods and standards, the Honours degree provides additional expertise including:
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills required for specialist careers in business and government
- Highly sought after research, project management and communication skills as well as advanced knowledge of finance
The Finance Honours Program requires completion of a total of four courses, three core and one elective. All courses are run with small numbers, combined with higher degree research course equivalents, providing opportunity to push and challenge your critical thinking and perspective, as well as taking your skills and understanding to the next level. The course structure is as follows:
| | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
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Core | FINS4779 | FINS4774
FINS4776 | |
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Electives | FINS4777
FINS4792 | FINS4781
ECON5106*
ECON5206*
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Thesis writing | FINS4796 | FINS4797
| FINS4799
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* Enrolment subject to meeting course pre-requisites and School of Economics approval; course scheduling may differ to above outline
Program Core courses