School of Business & Economics
Bachelor Courses
Pursuing your business administration degree can make you competitive and productive in today’s complex business environment. By selecting the risk management and insurance specialization, you’ll learn to identify risk and how to apply solutions to mitigate it. You’ll also understand how insurance products operate from the personal to the enterprise level.
The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree prepares students to pursue a career in managing activities in a private, public, non-profit, or governmental organization. In addition to specific management and behavioral courses, formal studies will include Accounting, Finance, Economics, Information Systems, and Statistics. Specializations are available in several fields.
The Bachelor’s in Accounting is a robust program with courses designed to give students a competitive edge with real-life skills for a variety of accounting roles in public, private, and government careers. Additionally, students can choose one of several concentrations within the accounting program to further focus their learning and help students differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
While math is important for an accounting degree, you will not need to be a complete math genius to get through your accounting degree. You may be pleasantly surprised to find out that the most important math skills you will need are typically the math fundamentals and some ability to learn statistics. So if you struggled with high school calculus, don’t worry. The theoretical math will not come into play as much with an accounting degree.
Accounting graduates need a much more broad-based math skill set with less theoretical than most would expect. With the exception of some of the higher accounting degrees, it will be your basic math skills and algebra that will help you most. So don’t shy away from an accounting degree because you think you needed to be an A student in calc, trig, or geometry. If you generally enjoy the more practical math classes and it makes sense to you. You should be fine.
Risk exists in just about every area of industry. Risk management and insurance professionals work to help manage that risk. They add value, work to minimize risk, and move their organizations ahead. In studying risk management and insurance at Kings College, students will learn how to identify, assess and report potential operational or financial risks to a business. Corporations, hospitals, and government units are recognizing risk management and insurance as an important and growing field, opening the door to many career paths.
The Bachelor of Business Administration in Risk Management and Insurance allows degree completion students to explore various areas of the industry while providing the flexibility to take day and evening coursework from an accredited university. Kings College’s Insurance and Risk Management further supports students in the program through internships and networking opportunities.
Master Courses
Learn from some of the top faculty in the nation and develop an understanding of how globalization has affected management in today’s society. You will discuss the complexities of managing businesses in a global arena, including the challenges of managing in a culturally diverse environment.
Regardless of your undergraduate major, this program can prepare you with essential management skills from one of the top business schools in the country.
The Kings College school of business and economics has been continually AACSB accredited for more than twenty years. AACSB accreditation is the benchmark of quality worldwide and is widely sought after by business schools. Less than five percent of institutions worldwide have earned this achievement.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a widely recognized and valued graduate degree. The MBA program at Kings College combines theory and practice—allowing students to apply what they have learned. Students will gain a broad understanding of the functional areas of business (finance, accounting, marketing, human resources, information technology), as well as develop their leadership skills through courses in organizational behavior, project management, international/global management, strategic planning, organizational change, and innovation. Also, the curriculum facilitates the development of leadership skills and core competencies in critical thinking and problem solving, project management, communication, teamwork, and ethics.
This program provides working adults the opportunity to learn without interrupting their careers, having to relocate, or commuting to classes. Course materials are available 24/7, and since class participation is required, students have the opportunity to interact with and learn from faculty and one another.
All students in the Master of Business Administration program are required to complete core courses with the choice of three elective courses from any of the following areas: Business Analytics, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Marketing, or Project Management.
Phd Courses
If you are a business professional with advanced knowledge and experience but are still seeking a higher level of expertise and strategic insights, the Doctorate of Business Administration at King’s College is designed for you.
Unlike a Ph.D. program, you won’t have to complete a dissertation. Instead, you’ll complete a doctoral project centered around a real organizational problem. And, you’ll have your courses all mapped out before you begin, ensuring you complete your entire degree in three years, with support at every step of the way.* As a graduate of this program, you will be on your way to becoming an inspired, ethical business leader ready to create change at the highest level in any organization.
This course provides insight on the subject of finance from the point of view of non-financial managers, which can be very well not only in corporate financial management but also in the management of personal finance. Students will deepen their knowledge also in the sophisticated area of corporate finance, strategic financial management, financial markets, and investing.
Upon completion, students will have a comprehensive overview of the tools, methods, and roles of financial management in a particular company as well as within the framework of business as a whole. They will master the tools of financial management and be able to use them in their professional practice.
Course Content
- Corporate finance
- Methods for determining the market value of a company
- Financial planning and budgeting
- Management of the working capital
- The financial system and the financial market
- Categories of financial market and segmentation
- Financial market instruments
- Securities
- International financial supervision
- The debt market
The goal of the Ph.D. program is to prepare the next generation of leading researchers.
The Ph.D. is a program of an independent, self-directed academic research degree, supported by a team of supervisors that makes an original contribution to knowledge written up in a publishable dissertation. The Ph.D. program also supports the development of research and generic skills to equip you to operate successfully as a professional researcher in any setting. The essential requirement of a Ph.D. is the creation of new knowledge. Being a researcher means developing new ideas and improving understanding through the creation of new knowledge. Your research will inevitably build to some degree on the work and ideas of others, but as a research student, you are expected to make an original contribution to knowledge in your discipline.
Each Ph.D. student must take a number of online modules and also complete a dissertation. Students must defend their dissertation in a “viva voce” (spoken) examination. The viva-voce examination is an intense and challenging experience, but we offer workshops and mock examinations to help our research students prepare and almost all research students who reach this stage go on to successfully complete their degree.
Students can engage in research in one of the following fields of study:
- Marketing Management
- Information and Technology
- Education
- Business Administration
- Accounting and Finance
Kings College’s Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Banking & Finance will prepare you to become a globally focused and socially engaged research leader. You’ll join a cohort of high-achieving research students and benefit from interdisciplinary engagement with your cohort. This is your opportunity to become integrated into our Business School’s community of scholars.
You’ll first undertake rigorous coursework covering topics such as corporate finance, corporate governance, asset pricing, and microeconomic analysis. As part of the program, you’ll also be involved in research projects from an early stage. This research training will equip you with the skills required to identify, analyze and solve problems in the field.
You’ll then pursue full-time research under the supervision of high-profile UNSW academics, culminating in a doctoral thesis. There will also be exciting opportunities to develop your teaching portfolio.
Your Ph.D. thesis will showcase your research skills and enable you to make an original contribution to knowledge in your field.
With the growth of online activity in many areas of life, outstanding digital marketing competency is needed across all business sectors. On this CIM – approved and accredited program, developed in consultation with our industry partners, you will extend your existing skills while gaining the digital and social media marketing knowledge needed in today’s demanding digital global economy.
You will look critically at the current literature on a wide range of digital marketing theories and issues but the program is also highly practical. You will work on live case study assignments and group projects while running real-life digital marketing campaigns, applying search and social media marketing techniques to support competitive marketing strategies.
You will be taught by internationally recognized experts based in Kings College. Looking at the challenges faced by organizations in a dynamic and competitive global environment, you will learn to understand the role that digital marketing plays in addressing these challenges. You will also look at relevant ethical issues, issues of sustainable development, and how digital marketing can support a wider commitment to social justice. In particular, you will develop the range of skills needed to plan, manage and implement a digital marketing plan to support a business strategy.
The Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing (Ph.D.) objective is to help students prepare for a career in marketing by providing the right tools and knowledge. Also by having a Ph.D. the students can choose to do academic research or teach in their chosen field. The Marketing program is designed to advance the professional development of experienced Marketing graduates and professionals in the Marketing arena by extending their knowledge and equipping them with broad research and process Marketing skills, enabling them to make a key leadership contribution to their chosen fields. Kings College Doctorate degree in Education goes one step further by allowing students to study and research multiple key areas of computer science to develop a unique foundation of practical knowledge and computer science theory.
Your Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing program in Education will be a custom-made program, designed just for you by you and your advisor. This flexibility to meet your needs is seldom found in other Ph.D. programs. Our program does not require every student to study the same subjects and use the same books and other learning materials as every other student. Instead, our Doctoral programs are designed just for you. They are individually designed to meet your needs and help you to reach your professional and personal goals.
Students complete four Ph.D. seminar courses in marketing from the core areas of research: quantitative modeling, consumer behavior, and marketing strategy. These seminar offerings vary from year to year.
Those who know how to manage money and can develop new financial solutions are always in demand. In the Financial Management Ph.D. specialization, you will explore research and development analyses used to manage and allocate financial resources, and develop effective strategic planning for projection and ROI issues. Working with Kings College’s professors, you will learn advanced finance skills, including financial statement analysis, advanced financial business decision models, investment selection techniques, and how financial institutions generate earnings and manage risks.
Financial management and analysis are some of the most important and valuable skills for today’s managers and executives. It is essential to understand the impact of daily decisions on an organization’s financial performance. This program gives all the tools, strategies, and tactics crucial for analyzing and improving the financial dimension of any decision operative in a firm.
Our finance Ph.D. graduates work as educators at the university level or pursue a variety of research or practitioner-oriented positions in statistics, investment banking, financial analysis, and financial planning.
Our world-class researchers engage with and disseminate research to practitioners, policy-makers, and academic colleagues to develop a more robust financial system. Our faculty regularly publish in the top financial economics journals and participate actively in world-renowned academic, industry, and policy conferences.
A number of high-level academic and practitioner conferences take place at the Business School, offering students, alumni, and faculty the opportunity to network and shape the future of finance. Our well-cited academic research has an international impact, while our students are regularly placed in top finance jobs in the private sector, international organizations, and academia.
Finance welcomes applications from excellent candidates with a background in quantitative subjects including mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance. As a Ph.D. student in the Department of Finance, you will work closely with faculty members and are encouraged to think creatively. The program offers specialized courses to build your knowledge of theory and technical skills and equip you with the tools to carry out high-quality theoretical and empirical research.
The world-class research undertaken by our finance faculty spans four core themes – Innovation and Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Finance and Risk Management, and Financial Analysis – engaging with and disseminating research to practitioners, policy-makers, and academic colleagues to develop a more robust financial system. Research has covered derivative pricing and hedging, quantitative risk management and asset allocation, financial econometrics, stochastic volatility modeling, credit risk modeling, catastrophe risk analysis, M&A, and private equity.