The Postgraduate Diploma equips students with the expert knowledge and professional skills required by practitioners in the financial planning sector. Financial planners who want to become CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER Professionals can use this qualification to satisfy the educational requirements set by the FPI.
Admission Requirements
Unless Senate decides otherwise, a student shall be required to meet the following criteria to be enrolled for the Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning – PGDip (Financial Planning): a Bachelor’s Degree majoring in Financial Planning or equivalent, or an Advanced Diploma in Management specializing in Financial Planning or equivalent.
RPL Access to the programme can also be provided in terms of the University’s RPL Policy and its admission criteria as stipulated by the Senate.
In the RPL process, the applicant has to undergo a Portfolio Development Course (PDC) to support his/her application.
The PDC will focus on written submission explaining the reasons for the applicant’s interest in Financial Planning in addition to his/her existing professional competencies and indicating the nature of a possible research project.
A foreign applicant, who has completed a three-year qualification at an institution where English was not the medium of instruction shall only be considered for admission into the programme if s/he provides proof of one of the following
requirements:
a paper score of 550 or a computer score of 213 in Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) band 6 International English Language Testing System (IELTS) passed the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) passed the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) passed the Cambridge Business English Certificate 3.
DURATION
Unless Senate decides otherwise the curriculum shall extend over one year full-time or two years part-time.