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Master of Commerce

  • Masters (Coursework)

This postgraduate degree is designed for professionals aiming to specialise or upskill in commerce, offering majors such as Finance, Marketing, and Sustainable Business Leadership. It includes practical learning experiences and capstone units to enhance employability and industry readiness.

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Duration
1 - 2 years full-time
Course Code
MC-COMM, 078409G
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$40,044 per year / $80,088 total

About this course

Overview

This is an ideal postgraduate degree for professionals who want to specialise or upskill in a particular area of commerce. Business professionals may also be eligible to gain credit for recognised learning (CRL) and gain their master degree in just one year.

This course incorporates Curtin Business School's future-focused 'GRIT' concepts - global, responsible, innovative, and technology-driven - which reflects the skills the World Economic Forum has identified as non-negotiable for the 21st century.

You will study commerce subjects that will broadly enhance your employability - including business project management, business analytics and data visualisation, and transformative technologies that impact society and its business practices. These core units will extend your knowledge in areas of business and STEM, and enable you to network with a wider range of peers.

You'll then focus on a major of your choice from the list below, developing an advanced understanding of that area's principles and practices:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics
  • Finance
  • Human Resources
  • International Business
  • Marketing
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable Business Leadership.

Through practical learning experiences, you will sharpen your ability to solve complex business challenges and acquire valuable research skills to apply to your chosen industry.

Your studies also include several transformative experience and capstone units:

  • Corporate Sustainability Immersion: This is a work-integrated learning experience, in which you'll participate in an industry-connected business innovation project centred on sustainable development and social impact.
  • Wicked Problems: In this unit you'll explore multifaceted real-world challenges that have global, community and individual repercussions.
  • Executive Education: Choose five one-day masterclasses (or equivalent) that serve as focused training in leadership, strategy, innovation, negotiation, communication or digital transformation.
  • Capstone Experience: This unit may comprise an internship, consultancy experience, research project or international study tour. In addition to growing your business acumen and skill sets, capstone experiences help you develop particular industry knowledge and networks.

Entry requirements

Applicants require a Bachelor Degree or an equivalent qualification in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution. The Master of Commerce course length can vary between one to two years depending on your prior qualifications and experience, however, students can choose to study the two-year course length despite their prior qualifications or experience, if they desire. For those students that have completed a postgraduate degree in a relevant field and have 5 years of documented work experience in a related role, you can complete a Discipline Master degree in one year.

English requirements:

  • Writing: 6
  • Speaking: 6
  • Reading: 6
  • Listening: 6
  • Overall band score: 6.5

What you will learn

What you'll learn

  • Apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solve complex local and global business and societal challenges, fostering the development of innovative business solutions that are valued by industry, government, and community.
  • Influence inclusively by analysing business problems in ways that demonstrate critical thinking to achieve responsible management decisions that consider the importance of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals when applied to international contexts, and diverse stakeholders including first nations peoples.
  • Demonstrate the judicious use of information and technology to critically analyse business and societal challenges, leading to the formulation of innovative, responsible, and impactful decisions.
  • Communicate professionally with ethical considerations in ways that are appropriate for local and global contexts.
  • Demonstrate industry readiness by developing future-focused capabilities including a global, responsible, innovative, and technology driven mindset.

Course structure

Course outline
  • Qualification: Master of Commerce
  • Duration: This fee paying course is two years full-time or equivalent part-time study. All streams in the course are available to international students studying in Australia on a study visa.
  • Credit: A full-time study load usually consists of 200 credits (approximately eight units) per year, with 100 credits (approximately four units) in each semester.
  • CRICOS: The Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) Code indicates a registered program offered to international students studying in Australia on student visas. 078409G
  • Location: The Curtin campuses or teaching locations where units of this course are offered. Curtin Perth
Deadlines for applying direct to CurtinIntakeApplication openApplication closeSemester 1, 20251 May 2024Applications now closed!Semester 2, 20253 March 2025Applications now closed!Semester 1, 2026Applications now open!3 February 2026Semester 2, 20266 April 20262 July 2026

Credit for prior study or work

Credit for recognised learning (CRL)

If you have a relevant degree and career experience, you may gain CRL, or advance standing, for your Master of Commerce studies and complete the course in just 12 or 18 months (full-time study).

Read our article to learn how CRL can help you to shorten the duration of your studies and gain advice from our program lead, Dr Abhi Singh.

How to apply

How to apply

Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice

  • Curtin Perth

Please note that each campus has different application deadlines. View our application deadlines page for further information.

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