Why Study / Key Benefits

Historically, the Master of Social Impact was designed for professionals seeking to create and lead social-impact projects, for-purpose organisations and social enterprises. Swinburne's Social Impact offering focused on developing capabilities in social innovation, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, social investment and impact measurement.

For the historical Finance specialisation, the programme would have combined:

• Social-impact management and leadership
• Social entrepreneurship and innovation
• Social investment and philanthropy
• Impact evaluation and measurement
• Finance-related business study through the selected specialisation
• Strategic and organisational skills relevant to social-impact organisations

Programme Structure and Subjects / Topics

Historical course documentation shows that Social Impact study included the following core subject areas:

• Opportunity Discovery, Creativity and Design — ENT60009
• Corporate Responsibility and Accountability — SIP60001
• Social Impact: Social Entrepreneurs and Social Innovation — SIP60003
• Social Investment and Philanthropy — SIP60004
• Leadership for Social Impact — SIP60002
• Evaluation and Impact Measurement — SIP70014
• Strategic Philanthropy — SIP80015
• Social Venture Development — SIP80017.

The historical structure also contained elective/specialisation study.

The Social Impact subjects covered themes such as:

• Social entrepreneurship
• Social innovation
• Corporate responsibility
• Philanthropy
• Social investment
• Impact measurement
• Social-impact leadership
• Social venture development.

Disciplines / Specialisations

Primary discipline: Social Impact

Requested specialisation: Finance

Historically, Swinburne stated that the Master of Social Impact provided access to more than 10 business specialisations and AGSE electives.

The requested Finance specialisation therefore belongs to the historical business-specialisation structure rather than a currently advertised standalone course.

Programme Highlights

Historical programme highlights included:

• Social-impact leadership.
• Social entrepreneurship.
• Social innovation.
• Social investment.
• Philanthropy.
• Social-impact evaluation and measurement.
• Corporate responsibility.
• Social venture development.
• Study at Swinburne's Hawthorn campus.
• Blended delivery.
• Business specialisation options. 

Career Outcomes

Historically, Social Impact study was relevant to career areas such as:

• Social-impact management
• Social enterprise management
• Social entrepreneurship
• Not-for-profit management
• Philanthropy
• Social investment
• Corporate responsibility
• Community organisations
• Social-impact consulting
• Public-sector and policy-related roles
• Social-impact project leadership

International Student Visa Requirements

For an active Swinburne course, international students normally use the Australian Student visa, subclass 500.

Key requirements can include:

• Enrolment in an eligible registered course.
• A valid Confirmation of Enrolment.
• Meeting the Genuine Student requirement.
• Meeting applicable financial-capacity requirements.
• Meeting health requirements.
• Meeting character requirements.
• Maintaining appropriate Overseas Student Health Cover.
• Complying with Student visa conditions.