Bachelor of Aviation/Bachelor of Business
Majoring in Financial Planning
RC
Choose your major
Accounting
Learn to deliver insights that drive business outcomes, while appreciating how profit and purpose are the foundations of future, sustainable business.
Business Administration
Gain an essential understanding of business operations, including organisational behaviour and managing workplace relations, alongside a range of practical skills.
Business Analytics and Analysis
Business analysts often act as bridges between management and those with more technological leanings. This major will teach you how to speak both business and tech languages.
Entrepreneurship
Develop the type of fresh thinking required to build, launch and scale a start-up business or social venture.
Finance
This CFA-affiliated program is designed to build careers in investment banking, financial consultancy, asset management, financial securities, trading stocks and brokerage.
Financial Planning
Help people get the most out of their money with essential financial planning skills. Investments, taxation and more, you’ll also learn about the ethical issues when managing a client’s finances.
Human Resource Management
Discover how to manage people, create a productive working environment and build a positive workplace culture.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Equip yourself with the skills needed to access career opportunities in logistics and supply chain management, international trade, procurement, inventory management and distribution.
Management
Learn about the role of management in business and discover how key resources must be strategically planned, effectively deployed, monitored and controlled to meet strategic business objectives.
Marketing
Develop the advanced marketing and managerial skills needed to think strategically and succeed in this exciting industry.
Sports Management
Develop the business mindset needed to run sport organisations and venues, identify risks and seize opportunities.
Overview
Become a professional pilot who also excels in the boardroom with a Bachelor of Aviation / Bachelor of Business. Gain a commercial pilot license through CAE with Melbourne Flight Training and prepare to enter the industry supercharged with a variety of skills.
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Your major
Financial Planning
Gain essential financial planning skills and knowledge to help people reach their financial goals. You’ll cover topics such as investment, taxation, financial risk, retirement and estate planning as well as an understanding of legislations, code of conduct and ethical issues relating to managing clients and their finances.
This major meets the requirements of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPEC) and is approved by Financial Advisers Standards (FAS).
Your industry experience
Bolster your CV with industry experience while you study through our Work Integrated Learning programs. These are guaranteed as part of our bachelor degrees and can include placements, internships or industry-linked projects in organisations including Qantas and Melbourne Airport.
Skills you’ll learn
- Professional piloting
- Safety risk management
- Human factors understanding
- Financial forecasting
- Analytical understanding
- Risk management
Your career opportunities
- Professional pilot
- Aviation consultant
- Aviation regulatory and safety services manager
- Financial planner
- Investment banker
- Risk analyst
Key codes
International student visa
International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.
Professional accreditations
Why Swinburne?
A leader in aviation education for more than more than 30 years
Top 5% of the world’s higher education business schools
Top 300 for Business and Economics
Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 2023#1 in Melbourne for student support