Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science

Environmental factors play an increasing role in decision making in many fields. The ability to take these factors into account and improve the productivity and sustainability of environmental systems to meet the current and future needs of communities and industry is in demand in the workplace. UNE's Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science gives you a foundation in environmental science, allowing you to upskill and expand your knowledge, whether you wish to pivot in your career or add value to your role.

With future-proofed skills and an in-depth understanding of environmental problems and their management, you will be better placed to anticipate and respond to the challenges we're facing in a rapidly changing world.

Why study the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science with UNE?
UNE is a pioneer in environmental science, with a long history of producing graduates who are in demand. Our Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science gives you the opportunity to study your area of interest and is ideal for broadening and developing your professional knowledge or adding the skills you need to pivot in your career. With options to study on campus or online, full-time or part-time, the course can be completed in one trimester, or paced over up to four years.

Our course equips you to meet current and future environmental challenges in an era of rapid technological disruption with future proofed scientific skills and advanced, specialised discipline knowledge.

We're highly rated. Year after year, students award UNE the maximum 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support in The Good Universities Guide.

What makes our course different?
UNE's Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science is designed to allow you to tailor your study to your individual needs with a broad range of units to choose from. The course also gives you the opportunity to:

• Engage in our collaborative, innovative learning environment. At UNE, our small class sizes give you the opportunity to interact directly with academic staff and your peers, ensuring you have the support you need to thrive.
• Hone your practical skills. Many units include mandatory intensive schools held at our vibrant Armidale campus. Through laboratory and fieldwork intensives, we emphasise the development of contemporary real-world skills, ensuring that you are able to translate your theoretical knowledge into practice.
• Fast track completion of your Graduate Certificate with entry pathways that recognise your prior learning. Depending on the discipline studied for your undergraduate degree you may be eligible for 24 credit points of advanced standing enabling you to halve your study requirements.
• Focus on applied research skills in environmental and rural science with the opportunity to complete a research project. If you wish to pursue further advanced study, these electives help you to refine the skills you will need to undertake our Master of Environmental Science and Management and progress your development as a researcher.
• Upgrade your skills further by qualifying for advanced progression in the Master of Environmental Science and Management.
• Study flexibly. Our postgraduate environmental science students come from a wide range of backgrounds, and our online study options allow you to balance study with your existing commitments. UNE is an industry leader in the provision of online learning. In fact, we're Australia's longest continuous provider of distance (now online) education.

Course Work Programs

• Catchment Ecology and Management
• General Program
• Natural Resource Management
• Spatial Landscape Assessment
• Vegetation Ecology

Study online
Most of our students choose to study online across three study periods with 24/7 tutor support* and fit study around work and family commitments. Uniquely, our online students are mostly over 30 and bring valuable experience with them. They form a community of adults juggling the same challenges and priorities and who bring their life and work experience together at UNE in order to become future-fit and better respond to a rapidly changing world.

Study on campus
Many of our students choose to take advantage of the on-campus lifestyle in Armidale, in the beautiful New England region, with access to unparalleled support, accommodation and sporting facilities. These students are often starting their first degree and have left school recently. Through access to academic and career support they get a fantastic start to their careers.

* 24/7 tutor support includes: essay feedback (within 24 hours); live chat 24/7 for generic feedback on academic writing; and subject-specific help at a foundation or first-year level for subjects including mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, business, accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics. There are also a wide range of workshops, resources and courses available in academic skills support to assist you and help you to succeed.