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What is Postgraduate Professional Development (PgProfDev or PPD)?

What is Postgraduate Professional Development (PgProfDev or PPD)?

FAQ: What is Postgraduate Professional Development (PgProfDev or PPD)?

  • Postgraduate Professional Development lets you take individual courses for University credit, without enrolling our on degree programmes.
  • This is online, supervised learning:
    • You take the course when it runs for our degree students
    • You interact with our degree students via online discussion boards
    • You complete the activities & final assessments
    • You engage with our tutors
    • You get University credit should you pass the course
  • In the future, if you want to earn a degree, you can transfer your course credits to the degree programme.
  • Postgraduate Professional Development  is aimed at:
    • Working professionals who want to advance their knowledge by studying at postgraduate level, but without taking on the time or financial commitment of a full Masters, Diploma or Certificate programme
    • Those who cannot start a degree programme in September but who want to get going in January with a few courses before fully enrolling the following September - this is a common way for Australian & New Zealand students to enrol.
  • All our degree programme courses can be studied via the Postgraduate Professional Development mode of study.
  • You can study up to a maximum of 50 credits via Postgraduate Professional Development; should you wish to study for 60 or more credits, then the University requires you to enrol at least on our Certificate programme (60 credits of study).
  • Read more about Postgraduate Professional Development here: