The Engine of The New New Zealand

Business

The business world is exciting and vibrant. You can deal with huge sums of money, work with multi-billion dollar companies, use your own ideas to start up your own business, work all over the world, or stay right at home, helping small businesses do things better.

Business is a brilliant topic to study. You can apply your skills to all sorts of jobs and careers, and it’s a really relevant topic of study.

When you study business you’ll learn problem-solving and critical thinking skills. You’ll be able to use those in your job, and your life, after you graduate.

Find out more about aviation, accounting, communications and journalism, entrepreneurship and finance.

Aviation

Why sit in an office when you can sit in a cockpit instead?

Massey’s graduates now fly for airlines all over the world, taking everything from small two-seaters all the way up to huge Boeing 767s into the skies.

If you look up every time an aeroplane flies overhead and wish that was you behind the controls, here’s your chance to make it happen. It takes a special kind of person to be a successful pilot, though… you’ll have to demonstrate that you’ve got “The Right Stuff” before you’ll be able to take flight in your office above the clouds.

Pilots don’t get off the ground all on their own, which is where aviation managers come in. These professionals train in the required safety and operational management of running a successful airfield. They’re also one of the few people who actually get to ‘boss the flyboys’ around.

Find out more about careers in aviation, and how you can do it too.

Accounting

Accountancy. It’s not just about numbers.

There are numbers involved. But it’s much more than that – it’s the language of business.

I don’t have to explain that that doesn’t mean that everyone goes around talking in prime number codes. Accountants DO communicate information that enables businesses to make accurate decisions about their business. Accountancy is a core skill necessary to conduct business.

If you’ve studied accountancy at school, you’ll know that it covers a really broad range of topics as well as accountancy, like management, statistics, commercial law and taxation.

At Massey you’ll get a good grounding in accounting and finance rounded out with the inter-personal, computer and business communication skills critical for success in today’s business environment.

Find out more about what sort of career you might have and how to do it too.

Being an entrepreneur

People often start their own businesses on a great idea (and not much else).

Many of these are successful – New Zealand is full of those people – their small and medium sized businesses make up the majority of New Zealand businesses. You could say they are the lifeblood of the economy.

They’ve got that far because they’ve realised that it is about more than coming up with ideas, it’s about taking your idea into reality. It is about learning how to start, run and extend a business in a practical and relevant way. About learning from others mistakes (and your own!).

Find out more about the history of business, what sort of career you could have and how you can do it too.

Communication and Journalism

Though they lead down different career paths, Communication and journalism have one thing in common: they’re all about helping people get the message.

Whether that message is an inter-office memo or a breaking international news story about rich people wearing silly hats, the core always remains the same; nothing ever gets built and no job ever gets finished unless people communicate with each other. Not everyone is a great communicator, though, so quite often someone has to step in and translate someone else’s ideas into something anyone can understand.

Communication and journalism today are both much different from what they were just thirty years ago. Back then journalists and public relations workers really only had to worry about the Big Three areas of media: newspapers, TV, and radio. Today you can add onto that websites, blogs, social media, podcasts, YouTube, and many more communication channels that were science fiction in the 1990s but are science fact today.

Being able to communicate effectively using both the old and new forms of media is critical not only to your own success but also the success of any business you may work for.

Find out more about careers in communication and journalism, and how you can do it too.

Finance

If you’re more interested in Wall Street than Shortland Street, then you’ll find no shortage of opportunities in the financial sector.

Money flows from place to place, just like water. Some people understand what makes that flow work, and their know-how can have an incredible impact on the world of finance – whether it’s one person’s bank account or the whole country’s economy.

If you think of money more in terms of raw numbers rather than as scraps of paper with the Queen on them, you already have a good start on understanding the world of finance.

Some companies have more money than they know what to do with. Others need help to move it from place to place. Whether you’re working as a financial analyst, sharebroker, or financial accountant, your career could essentially amount to telling other people what to do with their money – and getting paid to do it.

Get in touch with us if you have any questions.

Why choose Massey to study business?

Why choose Massey to study business?

We’re good at what we do

Our finance research is ranked first in New Zealand, and 16th in the Asia-Pacific region*.

We’re big

Massey is one the largest business schools in New Zealand. 12,000 students in total across the three campuses and distance learning. That gives you access to a huge range of expertise and the buzz of working with people from all over the world (see next bullet point).

We’re an international player

International agencies have accredited Massey’s business teaching. AACSB International www.aacsb.edu for our business degress and AMBA www.mbaworld.com for our MBA programme. Students at Massey come from all over the world to Massey too – over 100 countries.

We lead the way in executive education

Over a quarter of all New Zealand MBAs come from Massey. Massey was the first to set up an Master of Business Administration programme.

More accreditations

The finance major in our BBS degree is one of only two in New Zealand with CFA Programme Partner status. The School of Accountancy is accredited to lots of acronyms: NZICA, CPA Australia, ACCA and CIMA.

We’re real

We work in the real world, with our staff and students working on relevant research topics and projects. Areas like work-related stress, technological change and how it affects business, and safety in the workplace.

Take this study in workplace violence, or that we hosted the International Conference for Small Business in New Zealand in 2012, the world’s biggest conference for small businesses.

Our people are researching areas like work-related stress; organisational safety and health; international trade and investment; technological change & technology transfer; financial markets; market research; and business communications.

We’ve been doing it for ages

The Massey MBA is the longest continuously-running MBA programme in New Zealand (a quarter of all New Zealand MBAs come from Massey) We also have New Zealand’s longest running journalism programme – over 40 years. We have New Zealand’s longest standing teaching programme in entrepreneurship and small business management.

That’s why.