Now more than ever, businesses and organisations are seeking leaders who can combine insights into how the brain works with core business decisions. With the Graduate Diploma in Neuroscience and Business at UNE, you will gain a combination of highly sought-after skills and knowledge that will give you a competitive edge in a wide range of careers.

As the first postgraduate diploma of its kind in Australia, this program is designed to meet the demand for professionals with foundational knowledge and skills in both fields. Our postgraduate Neuroscience and Business programs also include certificate and master's level options.

Why study the Graduate Diploma in Neuroscience and Business with UNE?
In many business settings, neuroscience is increasingly used to solve problems, find new solutions, recognise opportunities, understand why people make decisions and develop strategies.

With this growing need in mind, UNE has developed the first graduate certificate course of its kind in Australia, designed by top academics in both fields.

What makes our course different?
In depth and multi-disciplinary, the Graduate Diploma in Neuroscience and Business provides professionals from diverse backgrounds with opportunities to develop skills in business and gain foundational knowledge in the fundamentals of neuroscience:

• Designed by research and academic leaders in both fields.
• Customise your studies with the flexibility to choose what is right for you.
• Use a business theory and practice framework to explore how the brain shapes human behavior, how people make decisions, and how neuroscience can assist businesses.
• Gain advanced insights into neuroscience, so you will be prepared for a career that allows you to adapt your insights to today's most pressing business challenges.
• Create your own program from 24 credit points of Neuroscience units and 24 credit points of Business units, tailored to your interests and professional goals.
• Learn with world-class researchers.
• Learn how the brain works and how people learn, think, make mistakes and decisions, what happens in the brain during these processes, and how it shapes business decisions and results.
• Explore how neuroscientific research and insights can help solve many of today's most pressing business challenges.
• Develop your core competencies across business strategy, innovation and leadership to become a flexible, agile and in-demand professional in a wide range of industries.
• Learn how to apply business theory and critical analysis to real-world and hypothetical examples.
• Earn your qualification in as little as one year or spread it out over two years part time.
• Gain credit from your completed Graduate Certificate of Neuroscience and Business units towards this Graduate Diploma or a Master of Neuroscience and Business, if you choose to progress to higher-level studies.

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.

* 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.