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A Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma can help you explore your areas of interest and further your career or change career direction.

Graduate Certificates

Our Graduate Certificates offer a flexible and focused way to gain a rigorous education in just six months (or equivalent part-time).

With a variety of programs to choose from, including Asian and Pacific Studies, Public Policy, Regulation and Governance, Diplomacy, and International Relations, our Graduate Certificates provide a wide range of options to suit your interests and career aspirations.

Graduate Certificate of Asia-Pacific Economies

This Graduate Certificate will equip you with skills to analyse economies in the Asia-Pacific region.

Graduate Certificate of Climate Policy

This Graduate Certificate is the new gateway for you to become a climate change specialist and climate policymaker in the Australian Government National Priority area.

Graduate Certificate of Crime, Risk and Resilience

This program is designed for professionals seeking innovative and holistic solutions to complex criminal threats and challenges in an age of complexity, uncertainty, and crises.

Graduate Certificate of Engaging Asia

This program offers multidimensional perspectives on key challenges facing Asia and our region, such as rising inequality, social upheaval, political transformation, and environmental crisis.

Graduate Certificate of Engaging the Pacific

This program offers you an opportunity to explore the island regions' diverse histories, cultures, arts, languages, politics, and environmental issues so you can engage ethically with Pacific communities.

Graduate Certificate of Environmental Management

This program provides you with an understanding of current issues and approaches to environmental management and the ability to contribute to the governance of environmental sustainability and disasters.

Graduate Certificate of Environmental and Resource Economics

This program equips you with tools in economic analysis and the skills to apply them to key issues in environmental and resource economics.

Graduate Certificate of International and Development Economics

This program equips you with tools in economic analysis and the skills to apply them to key issues in international and development economics.

Graduate Certificate of National Security Policy

This program provides an introduction to National Security concepts and practical policy skills, with a focus on navigating the Australian security landscape.

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Graduate Certificate of Nuclear Security and Safeguards

This program establishes a new professional qualification for Australia in nuclear safeguards, designed for graduates from disciplines including science, engineering, law, international relations, public policy and social science.

Graduate Certificate of Pacific Development

This program provides a condensed pathway to deeper research-led learning on the Pacific region for policymakers, program designers, researchers and analysts working on and in the Pacific region.

Graduate Certificate of Policy Design and Analysis

This program equips you with the skills required to confront local, national and global policy challenges of the twenty-first century.

Graduate Certificate of Political Science

This program equips you with an in-depth knowledge of contemporary political affairs and provides you with the analytical frameworks and research skills needed to understand the modern political landscape.

Graduate Certificate of Public Management

This program equips you with skills and expertise to navigate the public, private or not-for-profit sectors characterised by increasing uncertainty, digital transformation, and organisational innovation.

Graduate Certificate of Public Policy

This program provides knowledge and professional skills for those who wish to broaden and deepen their general or technical skills in public policy.

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Graduate Certificate of Regulation and Governance

This program is designed to help individual professionals and their organisations understand and apply contemporary Australian and international approaches to effective regulation and governance.

Graduate Certificate of Strategic Studies

This program is designed for students seeking to start or advance their careers in national defence, international security, counterterrorism, strategic policy, foreign affairs, intelligence, and more.

Graduate Certificate of Technology Governance

This program is designed for students seeking to start or advance their careers in data governance, digital transformation and technological change.

Graduate Diploma of International Affairs

The Graduate Diploma of International (GDIA) is a flexible 1-year full-time (or part-time equivalent) postgraduate qualification. This program, through a wide range of graduate level course choices, will teach you how to critically analyse international affairs and foreign policies through a diverse range of disciplines and explore how issues such as globalisation, development, democratisation, terrorism, and human security drive political developments in the Asia-Pacific region and around the world.

Upon successful completion of this program, you will be eligible to receive 24 units of credit toward any of the following Master programs - Master of Diplomacy, International Relations, Strategic Studies or Political Science.

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