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Postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

Our postgraduate courses offer high quality, effective and relevant education in nursing and prepare nurses for leadership in research, teaching and clinical practice. Our teaching staff have strong links with area health services, major hospitals and community-based health services. Many clinicians also contribute regularly to our teaching.

Our graduate courses offer the following advantages:

  • a wide range of units of study
  • greater choice of study areas
  • only a few days on-campus attendance per semester per unit
  • email access and communication with staff
  • Commonwealth supported places available in many courses
  • credit for units completed elsewhere
  • full-time or part-time Master of Nursing degree
  • graduate certificate courses leading to a master’s degree

Postgraduate advanced learning courses for 2010

The Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is offering a new and flexible range of postgraduate coursework degrees for 2010, at master, graduate diploma and graduate certificate levels. Students study courses with a variety of specialty-specific units of study that complement those that focus on leadership, quality and safety, and research. At the master's level, a capstone completes the student’s learning experience.

It is possible to start at a graduate certificate, and progress seamlessly up to a graduate diploma or master’s degree. All completed units of study will count towards this progression. Students may elect to study some units of study offered in the postgraduate coursework area as non-award units. Should you wish to study at graduate certificate, graduate diploma or master’s level at a later date any units studied may be credited towards the certificate or degree.

master’s degree | graduate diploma | graduate certificate

To enable you to streamline your study towards a particular professional field, there are seven specialty areas within the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery:

*Subject to Academic Board approval

Clinical practice requirements

For some of the above specialty areas, students need to ensure that they are able to undertake clinical assessments in the workplace. Students must fill out a clinical assessment form (see right hand side feature pane) and send it in with their application. Specific requirements can be found in the information for each specialty area.

Admission

With the exception of Clinical Trials Practice, to apply for admission into any of this Faculty’s postgraduate advanced learning courses you must already be a registered nurse in Autralia or in a country other than Australia. Additional admission criteria apply for those students seeking admission to the Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner).

Applicants with overseas qualifications are required to complete an IELTS score of 7.0 overall and 7.0 in each band. More information on IELTS can be found at the following website: http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/international/postgrad/apply/english_res.shtml.

Mode of attendance

All units of study may have up to five face-to-face study days. Capstones may have up to eight face-to-face study days.
Student learning is further supported by the University’s eLearning.

Note: International students may only study full-time, and therefore are only able to study at the level of master’s degree or graduate diploma.

Cost of postgraduate study

Fees for master’s degree | fees for graduate diploma | fees for graduate certificate

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