Deakin University

Master of Finance (Project Management)

Study at a university ranked in the top 1% in the world for finance* and delve into the modern financial techniques underpinning investment, financing, and risk management decisions of multinational corporations with Deakin’s Master of Finance. Learn about financial markets, corporate governance, corporate finance, derivative securities, and portfolio management. You will also be exposed to new knowledge areas such as FinTech, Business Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The coursework and research components have been designed to enhance professional practice in a range of financial domains, which may be of particular interest to you if you’re currently working as a finance professional.

Develop analytical skills for making key financial management decisions, incorporating time-value-of money and risk-return analysis, plus learn how to apply financial knowledge to solve real-world financial decision problems. Through practice, you will become adept at various digital technologies used to process complex financial data, information, and ideas.

Project Management

• MIS776 - Design Thinking for Innovation: Design Thinking refers to a style of thinking that brings creativity to the way we define and solve problems. It combines sensitivity for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of new insights and solutions, and rationality in analyzing and fitting solutions to the context. This unit explores design thinking as a practice for identifying and developing innovation opportunities in a range of business and social contexts.
• MIS778 - Agile Project Management: This unit will provide students with the theoretical foundation in Agile Project Management. Students will apply Agile methodology to complex projects and learn tools used to manage Agile projects. Agile project management is designed to facilitate such demands through early, measurable ROI with defiant, iterative product deliverables.
• MIS798 - Project Management: Project Management is undoubtedly one of the most important skills in management as modern organizations shift from traditional management to project-based management. This unit examines project management in the exciting, dynamic, innovative, virtual, information-enabled, and knowledge-intensive organizational environment.
• MMH707 - Organizational Development and Change: This unit focuses on the management of dynamic change within organizations by utilizing a strategic lens and focusing on a number of critical real-world Organization Development (OD) and Change Management (CM) topics. Drawing extensively from OD and CM literature, the unit introduces a range of models, tools, and methodologies that can be applied immediately within participants’ organizations, to facilitate the successful implementation of change initiatives.