Postgraduate study at UNE

What is postgraduate study? Postgraduate study involves either coursework or research and is usually undertaken after you’ve completed a bachelor’s degree.

Further education has long been the key to coping with change and turning challenges into opportunities. If recent events have taught us anything, it’s that unforeseeable events can dramatically change the way we live and work. Major disruption can come from any direction, any time. So, you have to wonder - what’s around the corner?

Now, more than ever, UNE’s experience as an online university can help adults like you respond to disruption, new technology, changes at work, and new possibilities. It makes sense to trust a university that has a 70-year history of helping adults like you become future-fit while they study at home. We provide unparalleled support, resources and study options that have led to us becoming the only Australian public university awarded 5 stars for Overall Experience 18 years in a row.

Partner with a university that knows how to help you respond to a rapidly changing world. Apply for postgraduate study with UNE and future fit your life.

Courses by study level

Postgraduate coursework

Postgraduate coursework allows you to layer on top of your first degree to enhance your professional options and opportunities. Postgraduate degrees by coursework do not have a research component and are not considered to be research degrees.

Postgraduate coursework options include:

Fee information

Most postgraduate coursework degrees at UNE have both Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) and Full Fee paying places available, though CSP places are subject to availability each year.

Full Fee paying places cover the full cost of courses, and students studying in Full Fee places are eligible for a Government loan called FEE-HELP. Full fee paying fees will vary for each course, but are the same, no matter whether courses are studied on campus or by distance education.

Learn more about full fee-paying places and FEE-HELP.

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Postgraduate short courses

Get the university education you need to feel more confident and qualified in your career without having to commit to another degree.

With short courses offered across a wide range of interest areas, become future fit faster with the experts in online education.

What our graduates say

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Having been in a senior organisational development position but for some time, I felt as though gaining a tertiary qualification in this field was an important stepping stone to developing greater professional credibility and currency of knowledge.

Lisa Benz-El-Fadle , Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice

Being guided towards personal and professional growth by the unit coordinators has been a unique, invaluable aspect of studying this degree through UNE.

Cale Moloney, Graduate Diploma in Counselling

The access you have to academics is a major benefit to studying at UNE.

Dr Matthew Hilliar, PhD (Animal Science) and Bachelor of Science (Hons)

Full-time or part-time study

UNE offers an adaptable approach to study load to better fit your life. You can move from part-time to full-time in response to changes on the demands of your time.

Many of our research students are working full time or have family/carer responsibilities and are able to continue study by undertaking a lighter workload over a longer period of time. Learn more about full-time and part-time study with UNE.

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