Course results for Postgraduate Science Degrees

Dive into the science, governance, and economics of water management

Take a whole-of-water-cycle approach to water management and advance your career in the water sector. Tap into leading water professionals to build your strategic, managerial, and technical skills. Tackle complex challenges with an integrated approach.

Explore new opportunities in the water sector

This course is designed for those who already work in the water management field and would like to take a step up in their career. Learn how to plan and lead projects on an urban, regional or national scale with guidance from The International WaterCentre. 

Advance your career in the water sector

Learn from the world’s leading water professionals. Gain practical tools and skills to tackle water management issues. Protect aquatic ecosystems. Choose from a broad selection of electives including financial aspects, collaboration, and sanitation.

Advance your career in catchment hydrology and water management

Unpack the complex systems and science behind the catchment process and hydrology. Solve catchment science with software and data. Graduates are skilled up to contribute to catchment work in urban development, flood impact, and waterway pollution.

Help our country manage the effects of climate change

Discover how you can help society become more resilient in the face of climate change. Examine issues such as infrastructure planning, sustainability measures and public wellbeing. Understand government policy processes and what needs to be prioritised.

Prepare to deal with the challenges of climate change

Expand your professional toolkit with skills and knowledge to tackle the impacts of climate change. Think sustainably. Grasp the science to consider the solutions. Learn to adapt using policy and technical information from government reports.

Protect Australia's iconic river basins

This is the only postgraduate degree of its kind in the world. You will learn how to plan projects that preserve Australia’s river catchments. Combine your scientific, engineering and economic knowledge. Work directly with a water sector employer.

Make a difference with a career in river conservation

Learn how to preserve our river basins through science and data. Understand water resource management, and how to plan for disturbances through modelling. When you graduate, you can enrol in the world’s only catchment-focused Masters Degree.

Broaden your engineer’s toolkit to include catchment processes and ecology

Unpack catchment systems and science including hydrology, ecology and geology. Get to know current management guidelines and rehabilitation strategies. Graduates are skilled up to work in water quality and waterways restoration and protection.

Identify and apply international best practice to sustainability

Study urban design, sustainable cities, leadership, Aboriginal sustainability, decarbonising cities and regions, climate policy and economics. Graduates find careers in sectors where social research and analytical skills in sustainability are required.