Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience and Business

If you have a keen interest in how the human brain works along with a desire to gain well-rounded business skills, a qualification in neuroscience and business could be the perfect fit. Now is an exciting time to be involved in understanding the brain and how behaviour is influenced, with a greater emphasis being placed on aligning business decisions with this area.

Gain specialist and transferrable skills to help you succeed in your career as a postgraduate student in our flexible online learning environment. Consider starting with a Graduate Certificate and expanding your studies at a later date with the Graduate Diploma or Master of Neuroscience and Business.

Why study the Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience and Business with UNE?
The Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience and Business at UNE is the first of its kind in Australia and has been designed to meet the growing demand for experts in both fields.

The flexible course provides an understanding of how the brain shapes human behaviour and how people make decisions, as well as a portfolio of transferable business skills to complement and enhance your in-depth knowledge of the brain.

Having a foundation in both fields will prepare you for a career where you can apply your insights to global business challenges.

What makes our course different?
In depth and multi-disciplinary, the Graduate Certificate 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 – create your own program from 12 credit points of Neuroscience units and 12 credit points of Business units, tailored to your interests and professional goals.
• 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.
• 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 a Graduate Diploma or 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.