Straight to the head of the class: our graduates have what it takes to thrive and succeed in the banking and finance sector both here in Australia and overseas, according to a leading education company

Australian Banking & Finance, April 30, 2008 by Andre Khoury

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"AGSM MBA graduates are making great strides in their careers by applying what they learnt in the AGSM MBA Program to the workplace. This outstanding result reflects the exceptional quality of AGSM MBA students, the relevance of the program to today's workplace, the quality of our faculty, and the career success of AGSM alumni."

Working with those in the industry

Jacobson said Kaplan working with industry professionals to create course content was a must given the size of the industry.

"The Australian financial services industry has become the third largest sector in the Australian economy, employing close to 400,000 people," he said. "To put this in some global perspective, the financial services workforce in Sydney is now nearly half the size of London's and close to 40% the size of New York City's. Further as a country of twenty million odd people we have the fourth largest funds management pool globally. To me this is staggering. The flow-on effects to other professional services sectors is also large.

"The rapid expansion of the financial services sector, product complexity and globalisation have placed increasing demands on the delivery of quality, relevant and flexible professional financial services education. To help meet these demands two years has been spent researching, developing and refining our new postgraduate courses in financial services.

"Our team has liaised closely throughout this period with industry experts, employers, students and academic staff from other public institutions to ensure that our courses are academically robust, well-structured and flexible enough to fit the needs of individuals. The result is a range of postgraduate courses that seamlessly fit together--or work as component parts--and offer students world class content and the latest delivery methods.

"We have a long history of this responsiveness and program relevance. An example is our Diploma of Lending which was created in direct response to a market need of two of Australia's leading banks."