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Master of Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development

Postgraduate | UON-DRS-MAS | 2023

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Lead teams to thrive when disaster strikes

Are you a manager looking to build resilience in hardships like natural disasters, data breaches, political changes, terrorism or epidemics? This is your course. Become an expert in risk reduction and management. Thrive beyond the unprecedented.

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Credit available
Yes
Duration
2 years full time or part time equivalent
Total subjects
16

Price from
$29,675
Available loans
Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Master of Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development

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Career opportunities

The Master of Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development is designed to appeal to those in management positions in private and public sector organisations, as well as those in NGOs and civil society, whose work involves resilience-building through the mitigation of impacts arising out of extreme events, which can be as varied as natural disasters, data breaches, political instability, terror attacks or health epidemics.

Professional recognition

A number of courses in this degree are co-certified by UNITAR and UNDRR.

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