History
The Department of Finance is one of four teaching departments in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. The Department was formally established in July 2001, although finance subjects had been taught at the University of Melbourne for many years prior to that date.
The Department has grown substantially since its inception, from just over 700 fulltime student units in 2002 to over 1200 in 2007. Enrolments in our undergraduate subjects now vary from 1,400 in Business Finance, to 104 in Real Estate Finance, our 'smallest' undergraduate subject. From such a large base, the Department has been able to offer a particularly strong honours program with an intake restricted to around 40 of the very best undergraduate students. To cater for an ever increasing demand, the Department also offers a suite of postgraduate programs, ranging from the practitioner-oriented Master of Applied Finance and Master of Financial Management programs, to the more academically focused Master of Commerce in Finance and PhD in Finance with coursework programs.