Melbourne's Graduate Schools
In 2008 the University of Melbourne launches Australia's first comprehensive Graduate Schools Model. The University of Melbourne's Graduate Schools signal a commitment to providing graduate education of the highest quality through a stimulating, supportive and professional environment for graduate students.
Arts
Melbourne Arts offers graduate courses in more than 50 areas of study across the humanities, social sciences and languages. Graduate qualifications offered in Arts are numerous and diverse, and have been carefully designed to cater for many different career specialisations and research interests.
Our professionally oriented coursework programs offer a unique combination of theoretical knowledge and industry experience and are taught by academic staff with substantial teaching and industry expertise. Melbourne Arts also has an international reputation for research excellence and holds strategic alliances with universities and eminent research bodies around the world. You will benefit by learning from leading researchers and practitioners and enjoy opportunities to participate in fieldwork, internships, conferences, seminars and the publishing of original works.
Melbourne School of Design
In 2008, the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning launches the Melbourne School of Design, the first graduate school in the Asia-Pacific region devoted to design professions responsible for habitable environments.
The Melbourne School of Design will be a dynamic, collaborative and interdisciplinary community of students, academics and professionals with a mission to develop leading practitioners and scholars. Engaging the most advanced studio and seminar-based teaching and research, Melbourne School of Design students will develop new ways perspectives, critical reflection and modes of action to address the environmental, social and aesthetic challenges in producing sustainable centres of habitation, locally and internationally.
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The Melbourne Graduate School of Education will lead the way in providing high quality teaching programs, student-friendly approaches to learning and relevant research.
With a proud history of nearly 140 years of teaching and learning at the Parkville campus, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education will continue to offer exceptional teacher preparation through the newly created Master of Teaching.
To complement the Master of Teaching, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education will offer established educators a variety of coursework and research programs.
Melbourne School of Engineering
The Melbourne School of Engineering boasts highly contemporary study programs in fields such as environmental engineering, information technology, mechatronics, software engineering, spatial information, biomedical engineering and biomolecular engineering. It also offers the opportunity to pursue research projects of international significance, clustered around four interdisciplinary themes - information and communication systems, structured matter, sustainable systems and biomedical engineering. From 2010, the School will deliver new professional Master's degrees, consistent with the approach of other leading engineering institutions around the world.
At the Melbourne School of Engineering, graduate students join a stimulating, collegial community of internationally credentialed researchers and outstanding fellow students. The School equips them with the knowledge, skills and networks to become active, global citizens, and leaders in both their profession and their community.
Land and Food Resources
The Faculty of Land and Food Resources offers contemporary programs that engage students in the major issues that confront our community, including: climate change, water management, feeding a world with an ever increasing population and ecosystem management. Our programs are a combination of applied science, business and social policy, and our graduates are well placed to become global leaders
Melbourne Law School
In 2007 the Melbourne Law School is celebrating its 150th anniversary of teaching. This is a symbolic occasion on which to reflect on the rich history of the School and the tradition of excellence that has enabled it to become one of the finest law schools in the world. We began teaching the Juris Doctor (JD) in 2000 and are proud of our commitment to proving quality, innovative legal education. Our graduate students thrive in an academically rich environment, taking full advantage of our superb facilities and specialised student services. We place great importance on quality teaching, and our graduate school includes leading scholars, practitioners, industry professionals and visiting international experts. Graduates of Melbourne Law School are confident and highly skilled, well-equipped to use their legal training in a variety of professional settings.
Melbourne Graduate School of Management
The Melbourne Graduate School of Management (Melbourne GSM) offers a full suite of graduate business programs, with a particular emphasis on providing career-entry programs for recent graduates and delivering specialist management education for professionals. Our courses span the fields of accounting, actuarial studies, business and IT, economics, finance, human resource management, international business and marketing. Through our strong PhD program, the Melbourne GSM is also developing the next generation of researchers in business and economics.
The academic staff in the Melbourne GSM are among Australia's finest teachers and researchers, recognised with national teaching awards and a number one ranking among Australian Business and Economics schools. The facilities and services enjoyed by students are exceptional. Chief among these is a dedicated Graduate Careers Centre, which provides a wide range of career development programs, including professional mentoring programs, workshops, career placement strategies and on-campus employer days.
Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
MDHS is the leading Australian Faculty in Biomedicine and offers a research and teaching environment to stimulate the most creative and analytical minds. Our graduate programs are designed to be cutting edge to provide leaders in Medicine, Dentistry, Behavioural Science, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Population Health, Rural Health and Social Work. Outstanding research training is offered at Honours level and through Research Higher Degrees in our seven Schools and in partnership with affiliated Medical Research Institutes and tertiary hospitals. This provides our students with unrivalled access to clinical training and research opportunities in clinical and basic research.
Music
The Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne is the oldest and one of the largest music schools in Australia. It is also Australia's premier music research institution, with over 120 graduate students enrolled in an array of programs in performance, composition, conducting, ethnomusicology, musicology, early music, music education and music therapy. We offer a range of graduate courses including the Graduate and Postgraduate Diploma in Music, Masters programs by research and coursework, Doctor of Musical Arts and PhD programs, including the recently introduced PhD in Performance.
Melbourne Graduate School of Science
The Melbourne Graduate School of Science is home to our community of scientists pursuing advanced training in the most diverse range of scientific disciplines in Australia. We are consistently ranked among the top universities in Australia for our scientific research, and are one of a select few Australian universities to rank amongst the best in the world. Our decorated teaching and research staff, innovative training programs, high-achieving student body and extensive resources enable us to pursue our aim of educating scientists who are capable of playing leading roles in research or industry.
Melbourne School of Graduate Research
The Melbourne School of Graduate Research (MSGR) is nationally and internationally recognised as a leader in research training and in the delivery of academic support programs for graduate research candidates. We work closely with academic departments to provide a distinctive Melbourne research higher degree experience and deliver high-quality multidisciplinary enrichment activities to graduate researchers from every discipline. The MSGR, through active candidature management and collaboration with faculties also provides quality assurance of, and accountability for graduate research programs, and plays an important role in research policy implementation and supervisor training. Located in the Graduate Centre and in collaboration with the University's postgraduate student association (UMPA), MSGR provides excellent facilities and resources to promote interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration for all research students.
Veterinary Science
As one of the founding schools of veterinary education in Australia, the reputation of the Faculty of Veterinary Science stands high throughout the world. Our academic staff are actively engaged in research, with many of them being at the forefront of research in their fields. This expertise extends not only to research degrees, but also to our coursework programs.
As a graduate student in Veterinary Science, you will have the opportunity to work in an intellectually challenging environment with staff who are supportive, and who will assist you to advance your career.
Victorian College of the Arts
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is Australia's leading visual and performing arts training institution. The Graduate School at the VCA is an exciting new destination for professional graduate study and research training. It is the umbrella body for a range of courses from graduate certificates, graduate and postgraduate coursework programs, masters by research and PhD programs. The Graduate School encompasses all artistic disciplines at the VCA - Art, Film and Television, Music, Dance, Drama, Production, Indigenous Arts Management, Community Cultural Development and interdisciplinary research through the Centre for Ideas - and provides scale, focus and effective management of professional education, research and research training.