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Are you eager to make a real and lasting contribution to an area of national priority for Australia? Are you interested in responding to society’s big challenges, including climate change, pollution, water management, and sustainable agriculture? Would you like to upskill with a short, professional online course from Australia’s top university?

The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management (6 months full-time, or part-time equivalent) is an online degree that caters to a diverse range of domestic students who are seeking to upskill or retrain. This includes policymakers working in high-level government and non-government organisations, policy officers and middle managers in Australian government and industry, and university graduates with limited work experience seeking to enhance their qualifications in a competitive employment environment.

You will gain a better understanding of current issues and approaches to environmental management, learn about current regulatory and policy frameworks in the Australian and international context, and enhance your ability to contribute to the governance of environmental sustainability and natural disasters.

 

Admission requirements and fees

Career opportunities

When you complete the Graduate Certificate of Environmental Management, a wide range of local and international employment pathways may open up to you as you upskill or retrain in this area of national priority.

Graduates from Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University (ANU) have taken up senior policy roles with local, state, and federal government. Others have gone on to influential positions with global development institutions, environmental agencies, non-government organisations, and social enterprises.

Others still have elected to specialise in the private sector, where they are guiding sustainability strategies within large-scale mining and agriculture companies.

What you’ll learn

The Graduate Certificate of Environmental Management is a 24-unit program catering to students seeking shorter and more specific postgraduate offerings.

Delivered by the leading minds in the field - ANU is ranked #15 in the world for development studies - the program includes case materials on real-world issues from within Australia and across Asia and the Pacific. It will equip you with both the theoretical knowledge and the practical skills needed to devise policies that can achieve economic viability, social acceptability, and environmental sustainability.

The program offers the flexibility to focus on courses specific to upskill or retrain to reach your career goals. These courses include environmental policy and communication; natural disaster management; food security and agricultural policy.

Complete course list

Commonwealth Supported Places

Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) are available to domestic students for this program in 2021. There is no application process for a CSP. All students commencing in Semester 2 2021 will be ranked according to the GPA of the qualification used as the basis of admission. Commonwealth funding for this program is only available for 2021. Any remaining courses commenced in 2022 would not be Commonwealth supported.

Students unsuccessful in securing a CSP can undertake the program as domestic tuition full fee (DTF) paying students. More information on domestic tuition fees is available here.

Pathway to a Master degree

You may wish to consider extending your Graduate Certificate to complete a Master’s degree. Your 24 units of study in the Graduate Certificate of Environmental Management may count as credit towards the Master of Environmental Management and Development, Master of Climate Change or Master of Public Policy.

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