Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising

This programme isn’t about ads that harrass, interrupt, and stalk you. It's about ideas. Ideas that surprise, delight, provoke. Ideas that create their own shareability and their own PR. Ideas that change culture, change behaviour and help change the world. Sometimes that can mean creating ads. But only if they’re ads that people notice, love, and talk about. Sometimes that can mean applying your creativity to tech to create new products or services that can help to solve urgent social and environmental problems. The programme is organised around global and national industry competitions. All work is marked or judged by industry. Each person has an industry mentor for the final 10 weeks. Under their coaching, you and your partner will create a final end of year show portfolio. You'll work in creative partnerships to turn those ideas into realised concepts, benchmarking your work in national and international competitions, and working to live briefs, as we prepare you to work effectively and creatively to deadlines as you would in an agency. Along the way, you'll work with proven creatives, gaining insights from experts in the industry

Minimum 18 years

Prerequisites: Applicants must hold a Bachelor's Degree or be able to evidence equivalent work experience.

International students must be at least 18 years of age and have an IELTS score of 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5 (or equivalent). We accept a range of internationally recognised English Language proficiency test.

If you are applying for the GDCA after completing a Bachelor's Degree you will need to provide:

• Your completed Creative Advertising Task Sheet.
• Your transcripts from your Bachelors qualification

If you are applying for the GDCA after having a combo of six years in tertiary or relevant work experience, you will need to provide:

• Your completed Creative Advertising Task Sheet
• Your CV/Resume
• Two reference letters from previous employer/s
• You may also want to provide your transcripts from any prior tertiary qualifications if you completed these in the past 10 years