Northeastern offering joint master's degrees with Australian university

Northeastern and Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia, have begun offering joint master’s degrees and will explore other possibilities for working together.

Under an agreement spearheaded by Northeastern’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies, the two universities are offering a master of business in international business/master of science in leadership and a master of accounting/master of science in leadership.

Northeastern faculty will travel to Australia to teach in the program, which is expected to draw roughly twenty-five students now and grow eventually to about a hundred students.

Swinburne, noted for career-oriented education with an emphasis on technology research, has six campuses in Australia and one each in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Provost Ahmed Abdelal notes that Swinburne—and Australia, generally—can provide an academic gateway to Asia for Northeastern. He says the university is also exploring a similar arrangement with the University of Ulster, in Northern Ireland, and already offers counseling programs in Israel and Kuwait. The College of Business Administration is also looking at ways to expand its international business program with international parties, he adds.

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