Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics is a course designed to meet the growing demand for information analysis across various sectors. In this course, you will develop a better understanding of analytics technology – its capabilities, its limits and its pitfalls – and learn how to analyse vast amounts of data to make better organisational decisions and forecasts.

Offered 100% online, this interdisciplinary course allows you to gain the skills necessary to apply analytic solutions to real-world operational and strategic issues.

Course aims

As a student, you will develop evidence and practice-based knowledge of applied data analytics that is relevant across disciplines. You will learn to derive key insights and measure the impact of data analytics, use data to make informed business decisions and gain commercial advantage, and confidently communicate analytical findings to clients, colleagues, executives and key decision-makers.

Who is this course for?

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics is suited to individuals who want to improve processes, systems and outcomes in their workplace through data analysis, and to enrich and extend their career paths by becoming an expert in analytics techniques.

This course is not available to international students who are holders of an Australian student visa, for study onshore in Australia. This course is available to all other international students to study wholly online.

Applicants to this course are advised to check the entry requirements.

This course has been designed with a number professions in mind, across organisations, for analysts to harness data to improve efficiency and effectiveness in decision-making.

• Government organisations and policymakers
• Health - system managers, hospital data managers, epidemiologists, nurses, clinicians
• Urban sectors - real estate developers and investors, REIT managers, acquisitions, sales channels, statutory planners, town planners
• Psychology - peak bodies such as APS and ACPA, organisational psychological consultancies, market research agencies, HR experts
• Education - instructional leaders, principals, head of schools, education specialists, learning designers, app developers, computer programmers

Related pathway options

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics is part of a highly flexible suite of courses, designed for you to study to the level that suits your learning and career goals. It’s easy to continue study after the Graduate Certificate and gain the Masters with a further year's study.

• Master of Applied Data Analytics
• Professional Certificate in Applied Data Analytics.

Who the course is for

This course has been designed specifically for professionals working in:

• Health (System managers, hospital data managers, epidemiologists, nurses, clinicians)
• Urban and environment sectors (Real estate developers and investors, REIT managers, acquisitions, sales channels, statutory planners, town planners)
• Psychology (Peak bodies such as APS and ACPA, organisational psychological consultancies, market research agencies, HR experts)
• Education (Instructional leaders, Principals, head of schools, education specialists, learning designers, app developers, computer programmers); and
• Government organisations (Department of Health, Department of Justice, policymakers).

Career outcomes

In the future, data analysts are expected to become critically important across all industries and geographies. According to the World Economic Forum’s The Future of Jobs Report, by 2025 jobs in this field will dominate the top 10 Growing Job Demand categories.

With such exponential growth and significant job creations in data-related roles worldwide, graduates of the Professional Certificate in Applied Data Analytics will be prepared for future skills requirements. Graduates will have developed industry specific knowledge and have the ability to create bespoke solutions that improve outcomes. Our graduates will be coveted and benefit from one of the fastest-growing industries and highest paid jobs worldwide.

In order to be considered for entry, applicants must have completed:

• a bachelor honours degree or equivalent in a cognate area; or
• a three-year undergraduate qualification and at least 50 credit points, or equivalent, of graduate study in a cognate area; or
• a three-year undergraduate qualification in a cognate area and at least two years of documented, relevant work experience; or
• a minimum of eight years documented, relevant work experience.

Meeting these requirements does not guarantee selection.

In ranking applications, the Selection Committee will consider:

• prior academic performance; and if relevant
• the work experience; and
• the personal statement.

The Selection Committee may seek further information to clarify any aspect of an application in accordance with the Academic Board rules on the use of selection instruments.

Students taking the course from overseas are not required to have an international student visa.

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