The standardisation of a curriculum is a contentious issue, with critics complaining it leads to a loss of control and creativity. What is less clear, however, is how the lack of standardisation impacts a discipline's curriculum. This article, taking the coursework-based Master of Finance programs at Australian universities as the case study, demonstrates that lack of standardisation results in graduates with non-uniform employability, ignorance of essential professional knowledge and the incorporation of non-integrated non-discipline subjects. Further, such lack of standards causes high disparity in the structures of the programs--an issue outlined in this article through a proposed similarity metric. Overall, this article calls for subject-specific standards to overcome these issues.