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Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies

  • Graduate Certificate

What's next for your career? You may need to boost your skills to secure a promotion, or you could be looking for a qualification to nudge you into a new line of work.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Certificate
Duration
0.5 year full-time, 1 year part-time
Course Code
3383
Study Mode
Online

About this course

What's next for your career? You may need to boost your skills to secure a promotion, or you could be looking for a qualification to nudge you into a new line of work. Our Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies allows you to choose your own courses (subjects) to create a personalised qualification that will take you where you want to go.

You can pick and mix four courses from the range of suggested courses below or choose from any of our postgraduate course offerings.

You can tailor your learning experience by selecting the courses most relevant to your aspirations, ensuring that you are getting the knowledge and skills you specifically need to achieve your career goals and optimise your employability.

We have curated and developed a collection of future-focused courses that are mapped to the skills that will be in high demand over the next five years and guided by the latest research into the future of work from LinkedIn, the World Economic Forum and the Queensland Government's Economic Recovery Strategy.

With the freedom to choose your courses, you'll receive an education that's flexible and tailored to your development needs. For each course you complete towards your graduate certificate, you will receive a digital badge that will verify and showcase your new knowledge and skills to employers. The digital badge will also provide you with real-time labour market insights in your chosen learning area. Our flexible study options put you in control of how fast or slow you study, how study fits around your life and how it benefits you.

As a student at Griffith, you'll received personalised supported from day one. Our support services, including careers advice and personal counselling, will help you as a professional to go in the right direction for you and your career.

Entry requirements

To be eligible for admission to the Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies, an applicant must:

  • hold a Bachelor degree or higher from a recognised University (or another tertiary education institution of equivalent standing) with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (using a 7.0 point scale), OR
  • have a minimum of three years equivalent full-time professional work experience, OR
  • have a combination of alternative admission criteria such as formal, informal and non-formal learning deemed to be equivalent to the above.

Study locations

Online

Career pathways

This program is suited for people that are looking to advance their career and be better enabled for the emerging economy and the challenges it is creating across a range of occupations and professions. The career opportunities are diverse depending on the study pathway that each student engages with. The program will help build new skills and prepare graduates for the future world of work.

Credit for prior study or work

Griffith University grants credit and recognition of prior learning which may relate to prior formal learning or prior informal and non-formal learning. For more information, please visit the following website:

  • Credit transfer

Griffith's innovative Credit Precedent Database allows you to find out what credit decisions have been made in the past. These precedents will give you an idea of what you can expect.

  • View credit precedents for this program