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    Graduate Certificates & Graduate Diplomas

    Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas are in the category of postgraduate studies which are designed as a prerequisite of Master degree. The Graduate Certificate which usually take 6 months, typically involves broadening individual skills already gained in an undergraduate program, or developing vocational knowledge and skills in a new professional area. Graduate certificates are designed in the main for specific vocational purposes.

    They aim to:

    1. broaden skills and knowledge already gained in an undergraduate program; or
    2. provide vocational skills and knowledge in a new professional area.

    They typically follow a Bachelor's Degree.

    Graduate certificate courses may be a part of a continuum of studies in a specific subject area (an articulated course) offering you progression from a graduate certificate to a  Graduate Diploma or from a graduate diploma to a Master's Degree.

    The Graduate Diploma take 12 months and either broadens individual skills obtained in an undergraduate program or develops vocational knowledge and skills in a new professional area.This qualification involves further specialisation within a systematic and coherent body of knowledge.

    Graduate diplomas can take up to one-year full-time or four years part-time and are generally designed for specific vocational purposes.

    They offer greater depth than graduate certificates while having similar aims:

    1. to broaden skills and knowledge already gained in an undergraduate program; or
    2. provide vocational skills and knowledge in a new professional area.

    They typically follow a Bachelor's Degree.

    Graduate diploma courses may be a part of a continuum of studies in a specific subject area (an articulated course), offering a student progression from a GRaduate Certificate to a graduate diploma or from a graduate diploma to a Master's by Coursework.

     

     

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    Last Updated: 15 January 2013
    Editor: Nina Zarabi
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