Recognition of prior learning

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 1.5 years to 1 year, if you've completed:

• an honours degree in a relevant discipline or
• a bachelor's degree with a credit average (65 percent) and relevant work experience or
• the embedded graduate certificate or graduate diploma
• relevant professional experience that is considered equivalent to the embedded graduate certificate may be considered

• Master of Art Curating
• Master of Creative Writing
• Master of Cultural Studies
• Master of Digital Communication and Culture
• Master of English Studies (only eligible for RVL with an honours degree in a relevant discipline)
• Master of Health Communication
• Master of Media Practice
• Master of Museum and Heritage Studies
• Master of Political Economy
• Master of Publishing
• Master of Strategic Public Relations

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 2 years to 1.5 years, if you've completed:

• a bachelor's degree with a credit average (65 percent) in a relevant discipline or
• a bachelor's degree with a credit average (65 percent) and relevant work experience or
• the embedded graduate certificate or graduate diploma

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 2 years to 1 year in the below courses, if you've completed: 

• an honours degree in a relevant discipline

Courses to which this RVL applies, subject to a successful application are:

• Master of Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics
• Master of Economics
• Master of International Relations
• Master of International Security
• Master of Public Policy

• completed a bachelor's degree or equivalent with a credit average (65 percent), with completed study deemed equivalent to foundational units of study
• completed some postgraduate business study but not yet counted to a qualification, you may be eligible for additional credit
• prior studies that are relevant to the Master of Commerce specialisations, regardless your degree has a name in business or not, you are encouraged to submit a credit application to have your credit eligibility assessed along with your course application

For further information, refer to our Master of Commerce frequently asked questions (FAQs) page.

• both the equivalent of an Australian bachelor's degree with a credit average (65 percent) in a related discipline, and 2 years of relevant professional work experience.

For more specific information, refer to the faculty handbook. Your eligibility will be assessed by the faculty once you apply.

You may receive this if you have:

• completed a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a cognate discipline, or
• completed a major, the equivalent of 48 credit points, in a business area or cognate discipline

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 1.5 years to 1 year if:

• You've completed the equivalent of an Australian Bachelor of Engineering degree with a distinction average (75 percent) in the same area of your discipline, e.g. civil or mechanical engineering.

You are eligible to apply for the accelerated version of the Master of Professional Engineering, which is two years in duration instead of the three-year Master of Professional Engineering if:

• You've completed an equivalent of an Australian Bachelor of Engineering degree with a credit average (65 percent) in a related discipline.

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 3 years to 2.5 years if:

• You've completed the equivalent of an Australian Bachelor of Engineering degree with a credit average (65 percent) in an unrelated engineering discipline (e.g. if your bachelor's degree was in civil engineering and you wish to study mechanical engineering for the Master of Professional Engineering), or
• the equivalent of an Australian Bachelor of Applied Science or similar (in a related discipline).

Note: If you have an equivalent of an Australian Bachelor of Engineering degree with a 65 percent average in a related discipline, apply for the relevant two-year Master of Professional Engineering (Accelerated) degree.

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 3 years to 1.5 years if:

• You've completed a postgraduate engineering degree with a credit average (65 percent) in a related discipline.

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 1.5 years to 1 year if:

• You've completed the equivalent of an Australian AQF Level 8 degree, i.e. an honours degree, graduate certificate or graduate diploma or above in a major or minor in IT or computer science areas which have solid foundations in programming, statistics, ethics and IT innovations.

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 1.5 years to 1 year if:

• You've completed the equivalent of an Australian AQF Level 8 degree, i.e. an honours degree, graduate certificate or graduate diploma or above with a major or minor in IT or computer science areas which have solid foundations in programming, security, ethics and IT innovations.

You may be able to reduce your course duration from 1.5 years to 1 year if:

• You've completed the equivalent of an Australian bachelor's degree with a credit average (65 percent) in a cognate discipline. Cognate disciplines incorporate computational or complex systems modelling at a senior level, e.g. engineering, computer science, mathematics or physics.
• the equivalent of an Australian AQF Level 8 degree, i.e. an honours degree, graduate certificate or graduate diploma or above in a quantitative discipline.