Gain a postgraduate qualification and enhance your career prospects
Benefit from the knowledge and supervision of experts from the world of business. The Department of Accountancy and Finance offers a range of advanced level qualifications and all of our teaching is research based. Whatever your situation, we have the qualifications to further enhance your career prospects and salary potential.
We offer the following postgraduate qualifications:
Bachelor of Commerce with Honours (BCom(Hons))
No new enrolments are being accepted for 2025.
Diploma for Graduates (DipGrad)
Improve your job opportunities or bridge the gap to postgraduate study with a DipGrad. A DipGrad is a great way to retrain or to update existing qualifications. The DipGrad programme can be studied full-time over one year or part-time over more than one year.
Find out more about a Diploma for Graduates (DipGrad) in Accounting or in Finance
Postgraduate Certificate (PGCertBus) or Diploma (PGDipBus) in Business
Benefit from advanced, specialised course work. Develop highly focused, subject-specific as well as the more general skills sought by employers globally.
The Certificate in Business (PGCertBus) is an entry pathway to the PGDipBus and normally requires one semester (5 months) of full-time, or equivalent part-time, study.
The Diploma in Business (PGDipBus) is a one-year course of study.
Find out more about a Postgraduate Certificate in Business (PGCertBus) in Accounting or in Finance
Find out more about a Postgraduate Diploma in Business (PGDipBus) in Accounting or in Finance
Master of Commerce (MCom)
Undertake your own individual research – develop your research skills and build your analytical and communication skills in the process. The MCom can be pursued by a combination of papers and thesis, or by thesis only.
Find out more about a Master of Commerce (MCom) in Accounting or in Finance
Master of Business (MBus) in Accounting and Finance
Develop a deeper understanding of the complexity of accountancy and finance. And be well-positioned for opportunities in analytics, equity, and ESG research relevant to business, academic and consulting pathways.
Find out more about a Master of Business (MBus) in Accounting and Finance
Master of Business (MBus) in Finance
Gain the advanced financial skills and knowledge to equip you for a career as a professional practitioner or academic researcher in the field of Finance. The programme can be completed in one year of full-time study which consists of a selection of papers plus either an applied or research project.
Find out more about a Master Business (MBus) in Finance
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Achieve excellence – study for a doctoral thesis for the University's highest level supervised research degree.
The Department of Accounting and Finance at Otago produces high quality, internationally renowned research – be part of it. The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the University's highest level supervised research degree and is awarded on successful completion of a doctoral thesis.
Find out more about the PhD programme at Otago
Contact Us
For further information about postgraduate study in Accounting or Finance you can contact the department.
Email acfi.phd@otago.ac.nz