Create a niche specialisation in helping clients to safeguard their assets and interests and plan for leadership and ownership transitions with UNE’s Graduate Diploma in Transition and Succession Planning. As our population ages, there is an increasing demand for skilled professionals with expertise in transition and succession planning by individuals, business owners and entrepreneurs alike.

This course can help you move into a career or build on existing skills in intergenerational transition and succession in family and business settings, including but not limited to family farming businesses. Select subjects that interest your career aspirations, with legal, business and behaviour-oriented options.

Enhance your skills and knowledge and elevate your long-term career prospects by studying with UNE’s experts in this growing specialisation.

Why study the Graduate Diploma in Transition and Succession Planning with UNE?
UNE's Graduate Diploma in Transition and Succession Planning is designed for planning and advisory professionals who engage with clients involved in family settings and businesses who need specialist transition and succession planning advice.

Focus on an area of specialisation that is growing in demand and develop skills in understanding the intricacies of various types of business transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions or ownership changes, and the legal aspects of succession planning, including wills, trusts and estate planning. Whether you are a legal professional, an accountant or financial planner or wish to specialise as a transition and succession consultant, this graduate diploma helps you step into the niche area of transition and succession planning. Helping clients protect their assets and interests and ensure their wishes are fulfilled can be professionally, personally and financially rewarding.

By choosing UNE, you will be studying with an industry leader in the provision of online lifelong learning. Year after year, students award UNE the maximum 5-star ratings in The Good Universities Guide for Overall Experience and Student Support.

What makes our course different?
UNE’s Graduate Diploma in Transition and Succession Planning provides a foundational understanding of the intricacies of transition and succession planning and offers the opportunity to specialise in an area that reflects your career path and aspirations.

• Enhance your studies and become a specialist in transition and succession planning.
• Develop advanced skills, depending on your interest, by focusing on the legal, business or behaviour-oriented side of transition and succession planning.
• Home in on an area of interest and create a niche practice of law, accounting or consultancy that has lasting impacts on the lives and legacies of families and businesses.
• Synthesise your learning and demonstrate your skills in a capstone unit using scenarios and case studies to build problem-solving and analytical skills in real-world contexts.
• Offered fully online, you can balance your studies with your other commitments.
• Upon graduating, progress your studies with the Master of Laws.

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.