Graduate Certificate of Environmental and Resource Economics
Postgraduate | ANU-ERE-GCE | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Confront challenges in environmental management and climate change policy
Explore economics and its role managing natural resources including water and energy. You’ll use economic tools to analyse human interactions with the environment. Investigate where climate change sits in core economic policy.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 6 months full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 4
- Price from
- $17,715
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Graduate Certificate of Environmental and Resource Economics
About this degree
Upon successful completion, students should be able to:
- Understand and be able to analyse economic policies
- Use economic concepts and methods to analyse key issues in environmental and resource economics
- Engage with the academic literature in applied economics
The Graduate Certificate of Environmental and Resource Economics will equip you with tools in economic analysis and the skills to apply them to key issues in environmental and resource economics. You will gain an understanding of markets, policies, and how to analyse environmental and resource economic challenges in Australia and internationally. Join an internationally-renowned network of leading economic practitioners and researchers at Crawford School of Public Policy.
Recommended study pattern
This 6 month degree requires the completion of 24 units.
As a guide, subjects in this degree can include:
• Graduate Preparatory Microeconomics
• Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
• Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
• Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
As part of your application, you’ll be guided through how to get the right degree structure in place for you.
Award requirements
The Graduate Certificate Of Environmental And Resource Economics requires the successful completion of 24 units from the specified courses in relevant areas.
Australian National University is a world-leading university in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. With ties to the Australian Government, they have special standing as a resource for the Australian people. Their approach to education ensures graduates are in demand the world-over for their abilities to address complex contemporary challenges. Offering innovative online subjects from beginning to advanced levels through Open Universities Australia, they meet varied students’ needs and goals.
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- 4
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 4
How to apply
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Entry requirements
At a minimum, all applicants must meet program-specific academic/non-academic requirements, and English language requirements. Admission to most ANU programs is on a competitive basis. Therefore, meeting all admission requirements does not automatically guarantee entry.
- Bachelor or international equivalent with GPA 4/7; or
- Graduate Diploma or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7; or
- Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7; or
- 24 units of courses in a postgraduate program a GPA of 4/7
- GRE General test, completed no more than 5 years before the time of application, with a minimum score of 155 for Verbal Reasoning, 155 for Quantitative Reasoning and 4.0 in Analytical Writing and a minimum of 3 years full-time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program; OR
- A minimum 5 years full-time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program.
Applications must show English language proficiency by meeting ANU's English Language Requirements for admission to study this course.
Contact Crawford.Enquiries@anu.edu.au for case by case information.
Career opportunities
The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia’s top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row.
Crawford School’s graduates in environmental economics are playing key roles in Australian Commonwealth and state governments, not-for-profits and social enterprises, advocacy organisations, international bodies and agencies.
Career outlook
- Economists:
- $93K to $120K
- Policy and Planning Managers:
- Over $120K