Master of Professional Studies - Digital Security - Taught 120 points

The MProfStuds is a masters degree with a professional focus. It can be a useful way to continue your postgraduate study if you already have a masters degree. Specialisations available: Data Science, Digital Security, Education, Food Safety, Mathematics Education. Our professional programmes can sharpen the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a career in your chosen field or progress your existing career. Completing an MProfStuds can make you readily identifiable as holding the skills to participate in your chosen field and contribute to its advancement. The Master of Professional Studies in Digital Security teaches you how to design, plan and manage a secure information technology (IT) infrastructure. You can develop a specialised combination of skills that include computer science, information systems, software engineering and operations management. You will explore integral skills in digital security by working on projects about real industry problems, supervised by our researchers.

120 points (Research / Taught):

You must have completed one of the following:

• A four-year bachelors degree (which includes one year of postgraduate-level study)
• A one-year postgraduate degree
• A bachelors degree and a one-year professional qualification or three years professional experience relevant to the area that you would like to study.

You will need a GPE of at least 3.0 and for some specialisations a higher GPE will be required.

To enrol in the Education specialisation you need to have at least three years’ teaching experience.

To enrol in the Mathematics Education specialisation you need to have at least three years’ teaching experience and currently hold a teaching position.

To enrol in the Teaching Chinese in Schools specialisation you need to have attained a proficiency level in Chinese of at least HSK Level 5 or equivalent.

To enrol in the Translation specialisation you need to have an IELTS Academic overall score of 7.0 with no bands less than 6.5. Alternatively, for non-native speakers of English, you need to have at least three years of tertiary education in the English medium.