Master of Education
Program code
5735
Available at
Nathan
Gold Coast
Mount Gravatt
Logan
South Bank
Online
Offshore
Other
Duration
2 years full-time
4 years part-time
Credit points
160
Indicative fee
$20,500.00* per year (more)
* 2021 indicative annual fee
About this program
This degree delivers advanced professional learning for teachers and those with a professional involvement in education including school bursars, school development officers and training personnel. It will help you develop greater expertise in educational practice or research and can contribute to current teachers' professional development requirements.
The Master of Education is not designed to lead to initial teacher registration (Primary or Secondary) or accreditation as an Early Childhood Education and Care teacher. If your goal is registration or accreditation in one of these areas, check out our Master of Primary Teaching (5587), Master of Secondary Teaching (5700) or Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care (3327) programs.
Depending on your career aspirations and interests, you can complete majors in the following areas:
- Autism Studies
- Early Childhood Studies (not accredited with ACECQA)
- Educational Leadership
- Educational Technology
- Learning and Professional Development
- Special Needs Education
- Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Wellbeing in Education
Attendance information
Flexible study options include online or on-campus study in intensive, full-time or part-time modes where the program structure allows.
My career opportunities
Successful completion of the program will equip graduates for a rewarding and productive career in a range of educational settings, meeting individual professional learning and research development needs and enabling graduates to work within Australia and throughout the world.
A variety of employment opportunities await graduates such as leading curriculum innovators, learning and teaching specialists, learning support teachers, educational administration, training and development, leading teacher, educational management consultant, teacher in adult and community education, specialist practitioner consultant, policy and planning officer, education officer, school principal, vice-principal and lecturer/tutor.
Pathways to further study
This Masters includes a dissertation pathway. The dissertation can provide a pathway to higher degree research studies.
To be eligible for entry into the Doctor of Education (6022) or the Doctor of Philosophy (6001), you must meet the admission requirements for the research degree.
Fee-paying postgraduate (domestic) students
Indicative annual tuition fee
The indicative annual tuition fee is calculated based on a standard full-time study load which is usually 80 credit points.
The indicative annual tuition fee is based on current conditions and available data and should only be used as a guide. These fees are reviewed annually and are subject to change.
Tuition fees
- A fee-paying postgraduate student pays tuition fees.
- Students are liable for tuition fees for the courses they are enrolled in as at the census date.
- The tuition fee for students who commence their program prior to 2014 is charged according to the approved program fee for the trimester in which the student commenced the program.
- The tuition fee for students who commence their program from 2014 onwards is charged according to the approved program fee for the trimester in which the student is enrolled.
Program fees for the Master of Education (5735)
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Changing programs
If a postgraduate student changes to a different program they will be subject to the approved program fee for the trimester in which they are enrolled.