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    Explore how finance, sustainability, and real-world action connect. This minor builds your confidence to make decisions that balance people, profit, and the planet.

    Why minor in Sustainable Finance?

    Sustainable finance helps you explore how economic systems can support long-term social and environmental wellbeing. You learn how investment, planning, and financial decision-making can drive positive change. The minor develops your analytical thinking and your ability to judge impact, value, and risk. It connects well with many fields because it gives you a powerful perspective on how the world works and how smart financial choices can shape better futures.

    Minor-only subject

    Please note: this subject can only be taken as a minor.

    A minor subject can be included in many of our undergraduate degrees. To earn a minor, you typically must complete a minimum of 90 points in that subject, with at least 18 points at the 300-level.

    Your minor can be a subject more commonly taken for a different degree. For example, a BCom majoring in Marketing can include Japanese as a minor subject. To include this subject as a minor in your application, first find a major subject through our Subject Search or Study Match.

    You can check what’s required to receive the minor accreditation in the programme details below.

    Expand your skillset with sustainable thinking

    This minor pairs well with many subjects because it strengthens your understanding of impact and decision-making. You might combine it with Accounting to learn how financial reporting supports responsible investment. You could pair it with Environmental Management to explore how money influences sustainable planning. You might combine it with Economics to deepen your insight into global systems. Each option helps you grow your awareness and expand your future pathways.

    Programme details

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    A minor subject can be included in many of our undergraduate degrees. To earn a minor, you typically must complete a minimum of 90 points in that subject, with at least 18 points at the 300-level.

    Your minor can be a subject more commonly taken for a different degree. For example, a BCom majoring in Marketing can include Japanese as a minor subject. To include this subject as a minor in your application, first find a major subject through our Subject Search or Study Match.

    You can check what’s required to receive the minor accreditation in the programme details below.

    Available as a minor subject for a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Music (MusB), Bachelor of Performing Arts (BPA), Bachelor of Theology (BTheol), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (BEntr), Bachelor of Health Science (BHealSc), Bachelor of Arts and Commerce (BACom), Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASc) or Bachelor of Commerce and Science (BComSc) degree

    LevelPapersPoints
    100-level

    BSNS 114 Financial Decision Making
    FINC 102 Business Mathematics

    One of:

    BSNS 112 Interpreting Business Data
    STAT 110 Statistical Methods
    STAT 115 Introduction to Biostatistics

    18
    18

    18

    Above 100-level

    FINC 202 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
    (or ECON 207 Environmental Economics, and one of ENRG 204 Renewable Energy Technologies or ACCT 325 Corporate Sustainability Accounting and Reporting)

    FINC 320 Sustainable Investing
    MANT 337 Organisations and Sustainability

    Note: Students majoring in Finance must include ECON 207 and one of ENRG 204 or ACCT 325 in their minor, and are not permitted to count FINC 202 towards the Sustainable Finance minor.
    Students not majoring in Finance are required to take FINC 202.

    18
    (or 36)

    18
    18

    Total   108 (or 126)

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