The Graduate Certificate in Business is designed for students without relevant undergraduate qualifications or appropriate professional experience in management who are seeking to understand the principles and practice of management. It provides key foundations essential to successful management and gives students the opportunity to demonstrate a capacity to proceed to more advanced study in the discipline.

The Graduate Certificate forms the first step in a sequence of study to Graduate Diploma and Masters qualifications. The Certificate allows students with the relevant academic or professional background to acquire a qualification for advanced study in a more specialised aspect of the program without the need to complete all the requirements of a Graduate Diploma or Masters degree.

Students undertaking the Graduate Certificate are required to complete 4 foundation courses (24 UOC). The courses offer both a broad introduction to advanced studies in management and the foundations for undertaking a more specialised stream at either the Graduate Diploma or Masters level. The foundation courses are:

Note: Students are not eligible to articulate into a Graduate Diploma or Masters upon completion. Students cannot use completed Graduate Certificate courses to gain credit towards Graduate Diploma or Masters programs, as this is a foundation level program.

To progress to the Graduate Diploma in Business, students must apply online via myUNSW.

1. Entry Requirements

1.1 To gain entry into a Graduate Certificate by coursework program an applicant must:

1.1.1 Have met the requirements of a Bachelor degree in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution
or
1.1.2 Shall submit evidence of academic and/or professional qualifications and/or related work experience which is determined, by the relevant Program Authority to be acceptable grounds for admission into the degree.

2. Enrolment and Progression

2.1 An application to enrol as a candidate for the Graduate Certificate shall be made on the prescribed form which shall be lodged with Student Administrative Services by the advertised date.

2.2 A candidate for the degree must undertake courses and pass assessment as prescribed by UNSW Canberra.

2.3 The program of study shall total a minimum of 24 units of credit.

2.4 The Academic Standing of a candidate shall be reviewed at the end of each session. Movement between levels of academic standing is based on progress, measured by cumulative number of failures.

2.5 No Graduate Certificate at UNSW Canberra is part of an articulated sequence of programs.

3. Fees

A candidate shall pay fees as determined by the UNSW Council.

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

These regulations apply to all postgraduate degrees and are to be used in conjunction with Academic Rules and Program Information. All rules in this Handbook apply to each student who enters an UNSW Canberra of ADFA postgraduate program in 2014. The rules remain applicable until the student exits their program, either by discontinuation or graduation. Students who entered a program in another year should consult the rules and regulations for that year.

Please refer to Faculty Regulations information