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University of Adelaide

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Graduate Diploma in Psychology

  • Graduate Diploma

Understanding human behaviour provides an incredible career advantage.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time

About this course

For more information about this program please visit the program website.

Learn what makes success tick

Understanding human behaviour provides an incredible career advantage. It can enable you to prevent or resolve workplace issues, lift people's performance and help you break down barriers to inclusion and strengthen personal bonds.

In short, it increases your value to employers in any sector, in any part of the world. And our Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Online) is the ideal first step in professional training to be a Psychologist.

What you will learn

Conducted part-time over 1.7 years, this highly flexible online program will equip you to apply psychological principles effectively and confidently in your chosen professional field. You will:

  • gain deep understanding of psychological theory and contemporary knowledge
  • learn how to apply psychological concepts to complex personal, social and societal issues
  • build broad skills in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methodology psychological data analysis
  • develop high-level psychological research capabilities
  • expand your awareness of cross-cultural perspectives on mental health and behaviour.

You'll also reflect on ethical and legal issues underpinning psychological research and practice; and develop the highly effective interpersonal skills needed to communicate your psychological observations and strategies with a range of audiences.

Career pathways

You'll graduate well-prepared to apply psychological skills in your chosen industry. You could help your team raise productivity through more effective collaboration. You might reframe an organisation's ongoing dialogue with customers to ensure they feel genuinely valued and respected. Perhaps you'll find innovative ways to remove societal barriers to gender equality.

You may even choose to pursue further study to become a Psychologist.

Course structure

For more information on this program, visit the program website


The Graduate Diploma in Psychology is a fully online degree for those who have already completed a three-year undergraduate degree at AQF Level 7 that may or may not have included psychology.

Courses focus on contemporary research, theories and applications to develop critical and analytic thinking and research skills, providing broad foundational and advanced knowledge in the scientific discipline of psychology.

This degree is the first step in developing a deeper understanding of human behaviour suitable to any profession, or those who want to pursue a career as a psychologist.

The University of Adelaide has partnered with Pearson, the world's leading global learning company, to deliver this degree 100% online. The Partnership has been established to deliver the very best experience and learning outcomes to all our students. Students will be awarded a University of Adelaide qualification and this degree meets the University's highest quality standards.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Psychology courses at University of Adelaide.
90.3%
Employed full-time