Information about the Faculty of Business and Economics

Faculty overview

The Faculty of Business and Economics is the largest Faculty in the University in terms of student numbers and its operations cover many disciplines, locations, research, consultancy and educational activities.

Awards

• Bachelor degrees
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Specialist Master Degrees by coursework
• Masters by research
• PhD
• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
• Diplomas (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate)
• Certificates (executive and graduate)

Location

The Faculty is represented on five campuses in Australia – Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula – and in Kuala Lumpur and Johannesburg , and has a presence in the Melbourne central business district and in several other countries. Its courses are offered in several modes to approximately 16,000 students.

Departments

The Faculty has six multi campus discipline based departments

• Accounting and Finance
• Business Law and Taxation
• Econometrics and Business Statistics
• Economics
• Management
• Marketing

It also has several consulting and research centres and units in specialist areas such as:

• accounting
• health economics
• human resource management and organisational behaviour
• policy studies
• quality management
• retail studies

Governance

A Faculty Board that is chaired by the Dean governs the academic affairs of the Faculty. This Board has established a number of standing committees that provide advice and recommendations. The Dean is advised by an Executive Committee that is comprised of senior officers of the Faculty who are the Deputy Dean, the Associate Deans, the Heads of Department, Heads of Schools (Gippsland, Monash Malaysia and South Africa) and Heads of Campus (Peninsula and Berwick) and the Chair of the Equity and Access Committee.

Administration

The administration of the Faculty is carried out by the staff of the Faculty Administration Office consisting of four business groups:

• Staff and Student Services (including the Human Resources Unit and the Secretariat and Academic Governance Unit)
• Business Development and Marketing
• Finance
• Technology Services

Undergraduate Teaching

The Faculty has more than 11,000 undergraduate students enrolled over three course “families” – the Bachelor of Business family based at Caulfield, the Bachelor of Commerce family based at Clayton and the Bachelor of Business and Commerce family which is our “world degree” and offered at our Berwick, Gippsland, Peninsula, Malaysia and South Africa campuses.

The Faculty's undergraduate courses are based around a core of general business units that provide a strong foundation and context for the development of discipline specific knowledge and skills. All departments contribute to the delivery of our undergraduate courses.

To understand how our various undergraduate courses are structured and where your teaching fits within the course structure, you should refer to the Undergraduate Handbook.

Each program family has a Course Director and Program Manager who can advise you about course structure and provide data on the cohort you will be teaching. The Undergraduate Course Directors play an important role in providing strategic planning and academic leadership of a wide range of degrees. There are three Undergraduate Course Directors within the Faculty of Business and Economics responsible for the following areas:

• Bachelor of Commerce and Economics degrees and double degrees conducted from the Clayton campus
• Bachelor of Business degrees, Bachelor of Psychology Management Marketing, and double degrees conducted from the Caulfield campus
• Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Tourism degrees and associated double degrees

These degrees are conducted from five campuses: Gippsland, Berwick, Peninsula , Malaysia and South Africa.

Postgraduate Teaching

The majority of the Faculty's graduate coursework students are enrolled at the Caulfield campus under the banner of the Graduate School of Business. “Ownership” of graduate courses rests more clearly within the department of specialisation and program management varies from department to department. The Director of Teaching within your department should be able to provide you with advice and appropriate course leadership contacts.

For details of the range of postgraduate courses offered and their structures, you should refer to the Postgraduate Handbook.

Most programs are based around a small core of compulsory units, a larger pool of discipline specific units and an even larger number of elective units from which students are required to make individual selections. Depending on the units they choose, students from the same program may graduate with quite different discipline specialisations (or ‘majors') and a unique grouping of electives. While this may seem confusing, there are a series of widely publicised course rules which guide the students through the unit selection process.

The relationships between units in a major and thus the aims, objectives, and learning outcomes are determined by discipline experts within departments and endorsed by the faculty as part of the course approval process.