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Graduate Diploma in Environment

  • Graduate Diploma

Our environment has many faces: cities, wilderness, agricultural lands, the oceans and everything in between. The Graduate Diploma of Environment has many faces too.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
Course Code
040954G
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Mar, Jul

About this course

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

The Graduate Diploma of Environment has many faces too. We offer 12 different streams of study, from climate change, to public health, to sustainable cities and more, including a tailored stream that you can design yourself.

You'll 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.

Study locations

Parkville

What you will learn

Course structure

The Graduate Diploma in Environment is a 100-point program (typically eight subjects), made up of:

  • Core subject (12.5 points) in Sustainability Governance and Leadership
  • Elective subjects (87.5 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.

Career pathways

Career outcomes

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.

How to apply

Application closing dates

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

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Architecture & Building courses at University of Melbourne.
76.6%
Overall satisfaction
81.4%
Skill scale
65.3%
Teaching scale
81.2%
Employed full-time
$62.5k
Average salary