Financial Technologies
Connect business and finance with the future in fintech
Address the fintech skills shortage
Our postgraduate financial technology courses will deepen your understanding of how technology is driving the future of finance and business and position you to thrive in an area where there is currently a skills shortage.
Bridge the business and IT gap
Our fintech courses – the first of their kind in Australia – will teach you to bridge the communication gap between technologists and data scientists, and business and financial services.
Co-created and co-delivered with industry
The Graduate Certificate and Master of Financial Technologies is co-created with Swinburne partner, Bendigo Bank, and unit partners, IBM, and Tableau. During your studies, these organisations will host events, provide platforms and content, pose real-world challenges and applied projects, and bring in practising professionals as speakers. They’ll even be sending their own employees to be your fellow students.
Tailor your course and specialise
The courses also draw on the cross-disciplinary strengths of Swinburne’s industry-focused innovation and entrepreneurship precinct, where you can extend your learning through a range of specialisations and electives across the AGSE.
Courses available
Be a highly employable part of fintech’s future where disruption is the new normal. With our Graduate Certificate in Financial Technologies, boost your technical smarts, entrepreneurial mindset, business acumen, innovation and strategic skills.
| Graduate Certificate of Financial Technologies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn campus |
Duration 6 months full-time or equivalent part-time |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes 8 February 2021 1 March 2021 2 August 2021 20 September 2021 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)* |
* Fees are annual full-time estimates for students commencing in 2021 only: Tuition fees as published are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. These fees apply for units studied in 2021 only and may change for units studied in future years. If part-time study is permitted, annual fees will be proportionally lower based on the number of units taken per semester.
With the Master of Financial Technologies explore blockchain, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and emerging financial technology. Evaluate big data with cutting-edge analysis. Devise and implement business strategies. Be a digital leader in financial services.
| Master of Financial Technologies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn campus |
Duration 2 years, 1.5 years or 1 year full-time or equivalent part-time (dependent of prior qualifications and experience) |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes 8 February 2021 1 March 2021 2 August 2021 20 September 2021 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)* A$29,600 |
* Fees are annual full-time estimates for students commencing in 2021 only: Tuition fees as published are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. These fees apply for units studied in 2021 only and may change for units studied in future years. If part-time study is permitted, annual fees will be proportionally lower based on the number of units taken per semester.
Be a highly employable part of fintech’s future where disruption is the new normal. With our Graduate Certificate in Financial Technologies, boost your technical smarts, entrepreneurial mindset, business acumen, innovation and strategic skills.
| Graduate Certificate of Financial Technologies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 6 months full-time |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes 1 March 2021 2 August 2021 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)** |
With the Master of Financial Technologies explore blockchain, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and emerging financial technology. Evaluate big data with cutting-edge analysis. Devise and implement business strategies. Be a digital leader in financial services.
| Master of Financial Technologies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 2 years, 1.5 years or 1 year full-time or equivalent part-time (dependent of prior qualifications and experience) |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes 1 March 2021 2 August 2021 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)** A$37,480 |
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"As the first of its kind in Australia, this program is a true immersion of a breadth of experiential university-industry co-created coursework. You’ll become confident in establishing how FinTech innovations can fit within an organisation’s strategy, and in understanding and dealing with related ethical, social, cultural and legal issues."
Dr Dimitrios Salampasis , Course Director, Master of Financial Technologies
Master of Financial Technologies
Swinburne industry partner, Bendigo Bank talk about the usefulness of Swinburne’s Master of Financial Technologies.
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"The number of FinTech start-ups in Australia has increased from less than 100 in 2014 to approximately 650+ companies today. Investment in the Australian FinTech sector rose from $US53 million in 2012 to over $U675m in 2016."
KPMG , Australian Fintech Landscape report (2018)
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