Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning

Skills in financial planning are highly transferable and extremely valuable across a number of industries. The Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning is designed to help students develop a strong practical and theoretical understanding of the discipline, and how to apply it to a range of professional situations.

The finance and financial planning industry needs graduates who can demonstrate critical thinking, creativity, and resilience, and who are able to design solutions for those seeking financial advice. In this diploma, you'll gain the required skills to analyse financial information and create effective planning proposals for clients. You'll learn how to apply financial planning theories and concepts across core financial areas, such as retirement and superannuation and much more.

RMIT offers you comprehensive training in this qualification that has been developed in collaboration with the Financial Planning Association of Australia and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA). This is a qualifying award if you are looking to upgrade your financial planning qualifications for registration with FASEA, or as an exit point from the Master of Financial Planning and the Master of Financial Planning (CPA Australia Extension).

The career prospects for financial planners are positive. The Australian government predicts that by 2023, the number of new job openings in this sector is expected to grow to around 17,000.

With this graduate diploma, you will have the qualifications and knowledge required to work across investment solutions, and superannuation, retirement, estate, insurance and taxation planning. You'll be able to clearly and successfully communicate complex financial concepts to your business or clients, and have confidence analysing financial problems and theories.