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Facilities Management

Course Duration (full time)

Masters: 1.5 years

Diploma: 1 Year

Grad Cert: 6 Months

Part-Time Study Approved

Time Limits To Complete Program

Masters: 6 Calendar Years

Grad Dip: 4 Calendar Years

Grad Cert: 3 Calendar Years

Credit points for completion

Masters: 72 in total

Graduate Diploma: 48 in total

Graduate Certificate: 24 in total

Commencing semesters

Semester 01

Semester 02

Fees 2013

Local Students | $385/Credit Point

International | $540/Credit Point

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Master of Facilities Management

Facilities Management blends the technical demands of building services with managerial responsibilities. Your Facilities Management studies are embedded within the widest array of building services and architectural science subjects, giving you an unrivalled strategic understanding of all aspects of building administration.

This course builds on your technical qualifications through the addition of strategic management principles that drive high-performance buildings. You will learn to align building operations with organisational priorities and how building services and sustainable approaches produce value.

This research-led program is backed not only by the best of managerial decision making, but also by the science of building services. The program uses the Faculty’s extensive facilities, including the only Indoor Environmental Quality laboratory in the southern hemisphere. No other facilities management program can offer this integrated, empirical approach.

MODES OF STUDY

This program can be taken as a Graduate Certificate (six months full time), Graduate Diploma (one year full time) or Master degree (one and a half years full time). Part time study is available for Australian citizens and permanent residents, and must be completed within the maximum limits of 6 years for Masters, 4 years for Diploma and 3 years for Graduate Certificates.

This program can also be taken as double stream Master degree in combination with another Design Science Program. To undertake a double degree, the core units from the secondary degree are taken as the electives in the primary degree. Please see the Faculty Handbook for enrolment advice for secondry stream structure.

Individual units can also be taken as Continuing Professional Development short courses without enrolling into a degree.

Many Design Science units are taught as ‘block-mode’ intensive classes, delivered over four to six full days, of which some fall on weekends to accommodate full-time working students. Some units however may be delivered in weekly lecture format. Please refer to the current timetable or Faculty Handbook to explore the delivery method of you chosen subjects. Students may apply to upgrade at the completion of their program from the Graduate Certificate, through to the Diploma and then to the Masters by maintaining a credit average over the course of study.

Masters and Diploma students may also opt to graduate with a lower level of certification once the required units are complete.

The Maximum Credit that can be applied from previous study towards this degree is as follows: Masters | 18 credit points (12 towards core only) Graduate Diploma | 18 credit points (12 towards core only) Graduate Certificate | 18 credit points

Applications for credit can be applied for at or after enrolment by submitting the following Credit request form to the Student Administration Centre

Admission Requirements

Master and Graduate Diploma applicants should hold a bachelor degree. Graduate Certificate applicants should hold a bachelor degree or possess experience which is considered to demonstrate the knowledge and aptitude required to undertake the course.

Professional membership

The Australian Institute of Building (AIB) has accepted graduates of the Masters program for corporate membership as Chartered Building Professionals if possessing the requisite professional experience. The Australian Institute of Building NSW Chapter Medal in Building is awarded annually to the outstanding graduate from the Masters program. Similarly, we have applied for accreditation with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FM).

Course Structure

Total credit points required

Qualification Core Option Elective Total
Master of Facilities Management 36 18 18 72
Graduate Diploma 24 12 12 48
Graduate Certificate 24 00 00 24
SEMESTER 1   SEMESTER 2  

 

CORE

  

 

CORE

  
Introduction to Architectural Science 6 Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) 6
Strategic Facility Management 6  Operational Facility Management 6
Financial Decision Making 6 Building Asset Management 6
Organisational Analysis & Behaviour 6 Risk Management 6

 

OPTIONAL

  

 

OPTIONAL

  
Conservation Methods & Practices 6 Project Management 6
Planning Principles, Systems & Practice 6 Energy Management in Buildings 6
Graduate Internship 6 Planning Principles, Systems & Practice 6
    Graduate Internship 6

 

ELECTIVE

  

 

ELECTIVE

  

Students are also encouraged to choose electives from any graduate program.

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Students are also encouraged to choose electives from any graduate program.

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How to Apply

Applications for Postgraduate studies can now be completed easily online.

Visit Courses Online to get started.

Applications must be accompanied by original transcripts of study ( or copies issued and certified by the issuing institution), together with certified copies of your Identification. (Birth Certificate or Passport).

Where students are applying for a certificate level based on industry experience, please attach a CV and any other supporting documentation which may assist in the assessment of your application.

Just want to study one unit of study as professional development?

Visit the CPD page for more information on Professional Development courses.

Who should take this course?

The degree is aimed at those who are currently involved in the management of business premises, or who wish to make the transition into this growing industry.

Kevin Hammond

Master of Design Science
Facilities Management

I have something of a varied background. Over the last decade I’ve divided my time between occupational health and safety and the development, sales and marketing of a computerised maintenance management package – rexisoft.

I’ve always been a very ‘hands on’ kind of person. While experience is valued, having a formal qualification can really help. This degree was a particularly good fit with my maintenance package business. It has allowed me to meet industry practitioners, both as fellow students and lecturers to flesh out theory and confirm industry best practise. I have been able to use what I have learned to improve my product.

Gaining this degree not only provides credibility for me, but also for my product.

The highlight of the degree has definitely been the people. I have been in groups that have been great. I am working with people who want to know more and are willing to put in the effort. The discussion has been energetic and the debate stimulating. I’ve been learning in a collaborative environment which makes it all the more interesting.