Why do a PhD at Monash Business School

Monash Business School is a leading global institution, consistently placing highly in international ranking lists. We engage with industry and world-leading institutes to carry out pioneering research that benefits society and changes the world around us. Our staff and students are driven by a passion and commitment to leave a more sustainable legacy for future generations.

We are committed to training our graduate researchers so they may produce impactful research, and go on to be outstanding scholars.

We do this through comprehensive coursework specific to each discipline to develop your advanced research skills, through accredited supervisors trained to guide you through your research journey, and through collaboration with academics who join us from around the world to work with, and co-supervise, our graduate researchers.

You will also be provided with generous funding to support your research development through participation at domestic and international academic conferences.

We regularly host globally-recognised scholars who run workshops for our graduate research students, and bring leading-edge knowledge from their own institutions.

We also offer significant opportunities within our programs to participate in an exchange with other global universities, and take part in internships with industry partners.

World-changing research

Our graduate students are encouraged to work on research problems that make a contribution to people, planet and institutions. Our students work within an environment that is highly supportive of research that challenges the way we work, think, act and measure the world around us.

With the support of their supervisors, departments and colleagues, our graduate researchers craft leading-edge research projects in one of our eight PhD disciplines (Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Law and Taxation, Health Economics, Economics, Econometrics, Management, and Marketing).

In addition, we also offer an interdisciplinary Business and Economics program, for candidates coming from industry to explore an interdisciplinary research question.

International careers after a PhD

Monash Business School graduates are highly sought-after by universities and other research institutions. Our PhDs have gone on to work in leading universities in Australia and globally.

Our PhDs have obtained employment at the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Curtin University, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, Oxford University, York University and Xiamen University.

Our PhDs also choose careers in industry and policy-making, and can be found working in Australia and around the world in major think-tanks, Fortune 500 firms and central banks.