About the Graduate School of Business and Economics
The Graduate School of Business and Economics provides the best possible preparation for tomorrow's business leaders. Offering a suite of graduate business programs, specialist management programs and research degrees, the Graduate School of Business and Economics attracts the best students from a wide range of backgrounds.
Our expertise spans the fields of:
accounting - actuarial studies - business - business and IT - economics - finance - human resource management - international business - management - marketing.
The Graduate School of Business and Economics has exceptional facilities and resources, and is home to a number of prominent research centres, including the renowned Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
We currently provide postgraduate education to more than 1800 local and international students. Many of our graduates are now prominent in business, academia, politics and public service.
Our graduates are highly employable, with strong technical capabilities and the capacity to creatively apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. Their excellent career outcomes are supported by our Business and Economics Careers Centre and its many programs, which include industry mentoring, internships and career workshops.
Academics from the Faculty of Business and Economics teach the Graduate School of Business and Economics programs. Our staff contribute innovative and engaging teaching and influential research to the learning experience.
Rankings
- The University of Melbourne is Australia's no. 1 research university and is ranked at no. 6 in the world for its graduates employability1
- In 2008, 80% of all Graduate School of Business and Economics graduates available for full-time work were working full-time within four months of graduation2
- The average annual salary for Graduate School of Business and Economics graduates working in Australia increased to $AUD63,000 in 2008.2
- #19 World Social Science Rankings (including law and business), Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), October 20091
- International colleagues rank the University of Melbourne at No. 20 (Peer review ranking)1
- Overall ranking No. 361
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1. The Times Higher World University Rankings, Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), UK, 2009
2. Graduate Destination Survey 2008 (preliminary results), University of Melbourne Planning Office
3. According to key indicators used by the Australian Government to allocate competitive research funding