Graduate Certificate in Environment

Our environment has many faces: cities, wilderness, agricultural lands, the oceans and everything in between.

The Graduate Certificate of Environment has many faces too. It's a 6-month full time (or equivalent part-time) course that gives you the chance to explore a huge range of subjects that span the full breadth of this fascinating and diverse discipline.

You'll start to develop specialised knowledge and technical skills in an environmental discipline or field of practice, and graduate with the confidence to use this know-how to create positive changes in our environment.

Our graduates go on to effect real change in the world.

The Graduate Certificate in Environment is a 50-point program (typically four subjects), made up of:

• Core subject (12.5 points) in Sustainability Governance and Leadership
• Elective subjects (37.5 points) from an approved list in consultation with an academic advisor.

Elective subjects can include an applied research project, an industry internship, or an overseas field trip.

Our graduates go on to work as: strategy and policy advisors, environmental planners, project officers, sustainability specialists, private consultants, environmental scientists, ESD consultants, risk management specialists, entrepreneurs, waste management specialists.

Employers in this field include:

• Government departments of agriculture, environment and policy, including Parks Victoria
• Local government
• Environmental consultancies and start-ups
• Education and community development providers
• Not-for-profits and non-governmental organisations
• International aid agencies, including the United Nations.

Start-year (March) 2021 intake
Timely applications: 30 November 2020
Late applications: 31 January 2021

Mid-year (August) 2021 intake
Timely applications: 30 May 2021
Late applications: 30 June 2021