Graduate Certificate in Applied Analytics

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Analytics is designed to meet the growing demand for information analysis across various sectors. In this course, you will develop a better understanding of analytics technology - its capabilities, its limits and its pitfalls - and learn how to analyse vast amounts of data to make better organisational decisions and forecasts.

Offered 100% online, this interdisciplinary course offers streams tailored for established professionals from a select group of fields, including education, psychology, health and urban.

By specialising in the use of analytics within your discipline, you will gain the ability to apply analytic solutions to real-world operational and strategic issues.

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Analytics draws on evidence-based practice to develop your understanding of analytics technology - its capabilities, its limits and its pitfalls. The focus of the course is on the appropriate use of data as a tool for effective decision-making, rather than technical details.

As a student, you will develop evidence and practice-based knowledge of applied analytics that is relevant across disciplines. You'll gain an advanced understanding of research principles as well as data collection, measurement and management. This will prepare you to predict and influence behaviours and business decisions.

You will learn how to:

• Apply methods for analysing text and unstructured data
• Calculate, manipulate and interpret data to derive alternative solutions to typical business problems
• Drive social and organisational change and innovation through data.

Students will also learn how to think critically about the use of data in public and private sectors. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the appropriate use of data as well as the challenges associated with its use.

This course has been designed specifically for professionals working in:

• Health (System managers, hospital data managers, epidemiologists, nurses, clinicians)
• Urban and environment sectors (Real estate developers and investors, REIT managers, acquisitions, sales channels, statutory planners, town planners)
• Psychology (Peak bodies such APS and ACPA, organisational psychological consultancies, market research agencies, HR experts)
• Education (Instructional leaders, Principals, head of schools, education specialists, learning designers, app developers, computer programmers); and
• Government organisations (Department of Health, Department of Justice, policymakers).

It takes about 20 minutes to complete the form using the online application system.

You can save your work in progress and complete the application at a later date.

Once you initiate an application, a student support consultant will be able to guide you through the process.