University of Otago
The University of Otago was founded in 1869, making it the oldest university in New Zealand and one of the oldest in Oceania. Between 1874 and 1961, it was part of the University of New Zealand but is again a university on its own right now. Its main campus is in Dunedin, but it also has campuses in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Invercargill. It has more than 21,000 students, including more than 3,000 students from 100 countries worldwide. The University of Otago is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world, at number 184 in the QS World University Rankings 2023. It has also been rated 5-Stars Plus by QS Stars for its facilities, teaching, graduate employability, internationalisation, and inclusiveness. What is the University of Otago acceptance rate? The University of Otago acceptance rate is 58%. The University of Otago has been called one of the world’s most beautiful campuses by UK newspapers The Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post. Meanwhile, its Central Library is ranked the 13th best library in the world by BuzzFeed. Student Life The University of Otago enjoys exceptionally high student satisfaction levels. Surveys showed 98% satisfaction with administration and support and 98% with campus safety. They also showed 99% satisfaction with libraries, 98% with residential colleges, and 97% with sports and recreation facilities. According to Tertiary Education Commission Educational Performance Indicators, Otago is New Zealand’s top university for educational performance. For six of the past nine years, its teachers have beaten all other universities and polytechnics to win the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Teaching Excellence.
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PhD Physics
Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.
PhD Pharmacy
Pharmacy centres on medicines: how they are made, how they act in the body, how they interact, and how patients are advised to use them safely. Studies combine chemistry, pharmacology and physiology with patient-facing practice. Graduates often work in pharmacy practice, the pharmaceutical industry, regulation and research.
PGDipWLM Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Management
Wildlife management concerns the conservation and stewardship of wild animal populations and the habitats they depend on. Students learn ecology, population survey and monitoring methods, habitat restoration, handling conflict between people and wildlife, and the law and policy involved. Graduates work in conservation agencies, reserves and parks, non-profit organisations, ecological consultancy and research.
PGDipTravMed Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
PGDipTheol Pastoral Studies
Pastoral theology considers how religious belief is put into practice in the care of people — in grief, illness, conflict, and everyday community life. It joins theological reflection with listening skills, ethics, and an understanding of human need. Graduates often move into ministry, chaplaincy, counselling and support roles, charities, and teaching.
PGDipTheol Christian Thought and History
Human history traces how societies have lived, ruled, traded, believed and changed over long stretches of time. Rather than memorising events, the discipline trains people to work with sources, question who wrote them and why, and build arguments about causes. Graduates often move into research, teaching, heritage, journalism, law and public policy.
PGDipTheol Biblical Studies
Biblical studies approaches the texts of the Bible as literature and as historical documents, examining their languages, composition, context and the long traditions of interpretation around them. Close reading, translation and historical argument are the main tools. Graduates often move into religious education, community and faith organisations, teaching, publishing or further research.
PGDipSurgAnat Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy
Every clinical judgement rests on knowing how the body is put together. Anatomy is the detailed study of organs, tissues, bones, vessels and nerves, and of how structure relates to function, learned through specimens, models and imaging. Graduates often work in health professions, biomedical research, teaching, medical illustration or science communication.
PGDipSpDM Postgraduate Diploma in Sport Development and Management
The business side of sport is the focus here: running clubs and facilities, sponsorship and broadcasting deals, ticketing, marketing and the governance of competitions. Management and finance fundamentals combine with an understanding of how sporting organisations are structured. Graduates often work for clubs, federations, venues, agencies and sports brands.
PGDipSEM Postgraduate Diploma in Sport and Exercise Medicine
The business side of sport is the focus here: running clubs and facilities, sponsorship and broadcasting deals, ticketing, marketing and the governance of competitions. Management and finance fundamentals combine with an understanding of how sporting organisations are structured. Graduates often work for clubs, federations, venues, agencies and sports brands.
PGDipSciComm Postgraduate Diploma in Science Communication
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
PGDipSci Zoology
Zoology is the study of animals: their anatomy, behaviour, evolution, physiology and the ecosystems they inhabit. Study can range from laboratory analysis to observation of species in their environment, alongside genetics and conservation biology. Graduates often go into research, conservation, wildlife management, science communication and environmental consultancy.
PGDipSci Sustainable Energy
Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.
PGDipSci Surveying
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
PGDipSci Statistics
Statistics is the discipline of reasoning under uncertainty: designing studies, estimating quantities from samples, testing claims and quantifying how much confidence a result deserves. Probability theory underpins it, and computing makes it practical on real data. Graduates often work in analytics, research, finance, public health, government and quality assurance.
PGDipSci Sport, Exercise and Health
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipSci Psychology
Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.
PGDipSci Plant Biotechnology
Biotechnology uses living systems — cells, enzymes, microbes — as tools to make useful things, from medicines and vaccines to industrial enzymes and improved crops. Laboratory technique, molecular biology and bioprocessing sit at its core, along with questions of safety and ethics. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical and agricultural research, production and quality laboratories.
PGDipSci Physiology
Physiology explains how living bodies function: how cells, organs and systems such as the heart, lungs, nerves and muscles work together and adapt to changing conditions. Study combines laboratory measurement with anatomy, biochemistry and an understanding of disease. Graduates often go into research, healthcare, sport and exercise science, pharmaceuticals and teaching.
PGDipSci Physics
Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.
PGDipSci Pharmacology
Pharmacology asks how drugs act on living systems — at the level of molecules, cells and whole organisms — and why effects, side effects and doses differ between people. Students learn physiology, biochemistry, experimental design and how compounds are tested. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical research, clinical trials, regulation, biotechnology and academia.
PGDipSci Neuroscience
Neuroscience investigates the nervous system, from the electrical and chemical signalling of individual cells to the networks behind memory, perception, emotion and movement. Laboratory methods, imaging and data analysis are used to link biology to behaviour. Graduates often work in research, clinical and pharmaceutical settings, data analysis and science communication.
PGDipSci Microbiology
Microbiology studies bacteria, viruses, fungi and other organisms too small to see: how they live, how they cause disease, and how they are used in medicine, agriculture and industry. Laboratory technique is central, from culturing and identification to genetics and analysis. Graduates often work in clinical and research laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food safety.
PGDipSci Mathematics
Applied mathematics uses mathematical tools to describe and solve problems drawn from the physical, biological, economic and engineering worlds. Differential equations, modelling, numerical methods and computation are the everyday materials. Graduates often work in modelling and simulation, data analysis, finance, engineering, software and research.
PGDipSci Marine Science
Marine engineering deals with the machinery that drives ships and offshore structures: propulsion, power generation, fuel and cooling systems, and the maintenance that keeps them running at sea. Thermodynamics, mechanics and control are core. Graduates often work in shipping, shipbuilding, offshore energy, port operations, survey and marine consultancy.
PGDipSci Human Nutrition
Nutrition and dietetics studies how food and nutrients affect health across the lifespan, and how dietary advice is translated into practice for individuals and populations. Learning covers biochemistry, physiology, food composition and behaviour change. Graduates often work in healthcare and community nutrition, public health programmes, the food industry and health promotion.
PGDipSci Geology
Geology reads the Earth as a record: rocks, minerals, fossils and structures that reveal how the planet formed and keeps changing. Field observation and laboratory analysis are used to interpret landscapes, map subsurface layers and assess natural hazards and resources. Graduates often work in energy, mining, groundwater, environmental consulting and geological survey work.
PGDipSci Geography
Geography brings together physical systems such as climate, rivers and landforms with human patterns of cities, migration, development and resource use, asking how place shapes both. Mapping, fieldwork and spatial data analysis are central skills. Graduates often work in planning, environmental management, geographic information systems, development, research and logistics.
PGDipSci Genetics
Inheritance, and how genes are expressed, regulated and altered, is the subject here — from individual molecules to whole populations. Laboratory technique sits alongside statistics and the analysis of large sequence datasets. Graduates often work in biomedical research, diagnostics, agriculture, biotechnology, genetic counselling and pharmaceuticals.
PGDipSci Food Science
Food science applies chemistry, microbiology and engineering to what we eat: how ingredients behave, how products are preserved, and how safety and quality are controlled from processing to shelf. Laboratory analysis of formulation and composition is a common part of the work. Graduates often work in product development, quality assurance, food safety and manufacturing.
PGDipSci Economics
Economics asks how societies use scarce resources: how prices form, how households and firms decide, and how policy, trade and money shape growth, employment and inequality. Mathematical modelling and statistical evidence run through the subject. Graduates often work in analysis and consultancy, banking, government and international organisations, and research.
PGDipSci Ecology
Ecology studies the relationships between organisms and their environment: populations, food webs, ecosystems, and how they respond to disturbance and a changing climate. Observation, sampling and data analysis run through the field, with statistics and modelling used to interpret what is measured. Graduates often work in conservation, environmental consultancy, land management, research and policy.
PGDipSci Data Science
Data science turns large and messy datasets into something useful, combining statistics, programming and machine learning with the judgement to ask sensible questions. Storage, processing at scale and clear communication of results all matter. Graduates often work as data scientists, analysts or data engineers across technology, finance, health and public services.
PGDipSci Computer Science
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
PGDipSci Chemistry
Chemistry studies matter: what substances are made of, how they react, and how new compounds and materials can be created and analysed. Laboratory technique and careful measurement sit alongside theory from organic, inorganic and physical chemistry. Graduates often work in pharmaceuticals, materials, energy, food and environmental testing, research and teaching.
PGDipSci Botany
Botany is the science of plants — how they grow, reproduce, evolve and interact with their surroundings, from cell biology to whole ecosystems. The subject moves between laboratory analysis, plant identification and the study of plants in their habitats. Graduates often work in conservation, agriculture and horticulture, plant breeding, environmental consultancy, botanical collections or research.
PGDipSci Biochemistry
Biochemistry explains life at the level of molecules: how proteins fold and function, how cells release energy, and how genetic information becomes the machinery of an organism. Laboratory analysis sits at its centre, alongside chemistry and molecular biology. Graduates often go into research, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, biotechnology or clinical laboratories.
PGDipSci Anatomy
Every clinical judgement rests on knowing how the body is put together. Anatomy is the detailed study of organs, tissues, bones, vessels and nerves, and of how structure relates to function, learned through specimens, models and imaging. Graduates often work in health professions, biomedical research, teaching, medical illustration or science communication.
PGDipRehab Postgraduate Diploma in Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation medicine focuses on restoring function and independence after injury, illness or in long-term conditions: assessing movement, communication, cognition and daily living, then planning recovery with a team drawn from several professions. Physiology, neurology and outcome measurement all feature. It is taken up by those working in clinical services, rehabilitation research and teaching.
PGDipPhty Postgraduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy studies how the body moves and how injury, illness or ageing disrupts that movement. Learning blends anatomy, exercise science and clinical reasoning with hands-on assessment and rehabilitation techniques. Graduates often work with patients recovering from surgery or injury, in sports settings, in care for older people and in community rehabilitation.
PGDipPHC Postgraduate Diploma in Primary Health Care
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipOphthBS Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmic Basic Sciences
Internal medicine deals with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of illness in adults, spanning the heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive and hormonal systems. Its centre of gravity is clinical reasoning: reading symptoms and test results to work out what is actually wrong. Graduates often work in hospital and clinic settings, specialty practice, teaching and clinical research.
PGDipOMG Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics and Medical Gynaecology
Internal medicine deals with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of illness in adults, spanning the heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive and hormonal systems. Its centre of gravity is clinical reasoning: reading symptoms and test results to work out what is actually wrong. Graduates often work in hospital and clinic settings, specialty practice, teaching and clinical research.
PGDipOccMed Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine
Medicine studies the human body in health and in illness: how disease develops, how it is diagnosed, and how treatment and prevention work. Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathology combine with clinical reasoning, ethics and communication. Graduates often work in clinical care, and also in medical research, public health, education and health policy.
PGDipNeuropsych Postgraduate Diploma in Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology examines the relationship between the brain and behaviour: how memory, attention, language and emotion arise from neural systems, and how injury or illness changes them. Students learn assessment methods, research design and the interpretation of cognitive testing. Career paths often include clinical services, rehabilitation settings, research and academia.
PGDipMus Postgraduate Diploma in Music
Music combines performance, composition, and the study of how music is made, heard and understood across traditions. Technical craft, listening, theory and history support each other, with recording and sound technology never far away. Graduates often work as performers, composers, teachers and producers, and in arts organisations, media and the creative industries.
PGDipMSM Postgraduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine
Medicine studies the human body in health and in illness: how disease develops, how it is diagnosed, and how treatment and prevention work. Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathology combine with clinical reasoning, ethics and communication. Graduates often work in clinical care, and also in medical research, public health, education and health policy.
PGDipMLSc Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Laboratory Science
Behind most diagnoses sits a laboratory result. Clinical laboratory science covers the analysis of blood, tissue and other samples: the techniques involved, quality control, and the biology that makes each test meaningful. Graduates often work in diagnostic laboratories, hospitals, public health services, research groups or the diagnostics industry.
PGDipMin Postgraduate Diploma in Ministry
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
PGDipMedTech Sleep Medicine
Respiratory medicine concerns the lungs and breathing: how airways and gas exchange work, and how conditions such as asthma, infection, obstructive disease and sleep-related disorders are investigated and managed. Study links physiology, imaging, pharmacology and patient assessment. It is taken up by those building careers in clinical practice, teaching and research.
PGDipMedTech Cardiology
Internal medicine deals with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of illness in adults, spanning the heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive and hormonal systems. Its centre of gravity is clinical reasoning: reading symptoms and test results to work out what is actually wrong. Graduates often work in hospital and clinic settings, specialty practice, teaching and clinical research.
PGDipHealSc Rural Nursing
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealSc Pain and Pain Management
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealSc Occupational Health
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealSc Nursing (Primary Health Care)
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealSc Nursing
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealSc Musculoskeletal Management
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
PGDipHealSc Mental Health
Mental health as a field of study examines psychological distress and wellbeing: how conditions are understood and assessed, what helps recovery, and how services and communities support people. It draws on psychology, health practice and the social context of illness. Graduates often work in support services, care settings, research and community programmes.
PGDipHealSc Human Nutrition
Nutrition and dietetics studies how food and nutrients affect health across the lifespan, and how dietary advice is translated into practice for individuals and populations. Learning covers biochemistry, physiology, food composition and behaviour change. Graduates often work in healthcare and community nutrition, public health programmes, the food industry and health promotion.
PGDipHealSc Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.
PGDipHealSc Bioethics
Bioethics addresses the moral questions raised by medicine and the life sciences: consent, confidentiality, genetic technology, reproduction, end-of-life care, research on people and animals, and how scarce health resources are shared. Philosophy meets law, policy and clinical reality. Graduates often work in healthcare governance, policy, law, research ethics and teaching.
PGDipHealSc Aeromedical Retrieval and Transport
Transportation studies how people and goods move by road, rail, sea and air, and how networks are planned, operated and funded. Coursework can span traffic engineering, logistics, economics and policy, with attention to safety, congestion and emissions. Graduates often work in transport planning, logistics operations, infrastructure projects and public agencies.
PGDipHealSc Addiction and Co-existing Disorders
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipHealMgt Postgraduate Diploma in Health Management
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipFBLM Postgraduate Diploma in Faith-based Leadership and Management
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
PGDipEdLn Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Learning
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
PGDipClinPharm Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Pharmacy centres on medicines: how they are made, how they act in the body, how they interact, and how patients are advised to use them safely. Studies combine chemistry, pharmacology and physiology with patient-facing practice. Graduates often work in pharmacy practice, the pharmaceutical industry, regulation and research.
PGDipChap Postgraduate Diploma in Chaplaincy
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
PGDipCDTech Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Dental Technology
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipBus Tourism
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
PGDipBus Sustainable Business
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
PGDipBus Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Political science analyses power: how governments work, how policy is made, why people vote as they do, and how institutions and ideologies shape collective decisions. Methods range from political theory to statistical analysis of behaviour. Graduates often work in public administration, policy research, campaigning, journalism, international organisations and consultancy.
PGDipBus Marketing
Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.
PGDipBus Leadership and Management
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
PGDipBus International Business
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
PGDipBus Human Resource Management
Human resources focuses on how organisations recruit, develop, reward and retain people, and how workplace culture, employment law and wellbeing affect performance. The subject draws on psychology, employment relations and management practice. Graduates often work in recruitment, learning and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and wider people or operations roles.
PGDipBus Finance
Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.
PGDipBus Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
PGDipBus Economics and Econometrics
Applied mathematics uses mathematical tools to describe and solve problems drawn from the physical, biological, economic and engineering worlds. Differential equations, modelling, numerical methods and computation are the everyday materials. Graduates often work in modelling and simulation, data analysis, finance, engineering, software and research.
PGDipBus Economics
Economics asks how societies use scarce resources: how prices form, how households and firms decide, and how policy, trade and money shape growth, employment and inequality. Mathematical modelling and statistical evidence run through the subject. Graduates often work in analysis and consultancy, banking, government and international organisations, and research.
PGDipBus Business Analytics
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
PGDipBus Accounting and Finance
Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.
PGDipBHL Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics and Health Law
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PGDipArts Theatre Studies
Theatre examines live performance from both sides of the stage: acting, directing, writing, design and stagecraft, together with the history and theory of how drama works on an audience. Text, rehearsal and staging are treated as connected parts of a single craft. Graduates often work in performance, directing, production, arts organisations, teaching and screen work.
PGDipArts Statistics
Statistics is the discipline of reasoning under uncertainty: designing studies, estimating quantities from samples, testing claims and quantifying how much confidence a result deserves. Probability theory underpins it, and computing makes it practical on real data. Graduates often work in analytics, research, finance, public health, government and quality assurance.
PGDipArts Sociology
Sociology examines how societies are organised, and how class, gender, ethnicity, institutions and culture shape people's lives and choices. Students learn to gather and interpret evidence about social patterns, and to question explanations that seem obvious. Graduates often work in research, policy, social services, human resources, media and the non-profit sector.
PGDipArts Religious Studies
Concerned with how religion is taught, this field covers lesson design, age-appropriate teaching methods, classroom discussion of belief, and handling difference and sensitivity among learners. Educational theory is applied to religious content. Graduates often work in schools, faith communities, curriculum development, youth work and teacher training.
PGDipArts Psychology
Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.
PGDipArts Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Political science analyses power: how governments work, how policy is made, why people vote as they do, and how institutions and ideologies shape collective decisions. Methods range from political theory to statistical analysis of behaviour. Graduates often work in public administration, policy research, campaigning, journalism, international organisations and consultancy.
PGDipArts Philosophy
Philosophy takes up questions that resist easy answers: what we can know, what makes an action right, what exists, and how language and reasoning work. The training lies in constructing arguments and finding the weaknesses in them. Graduates often work in law, policy, education, publishing, technology ethics, research and management.
PGDipArts Music
Music combines performance, composition, and the study of how music is made, heard and understood across traditions. Technical craft, listening, theory and history support each other, with recording and sound technology never far away. Graduates often work as performers, composers, teachers and producers, and in arts organisations, media and the creative industries.
PGDipArts Mathematics
Applied mathematics uses mathematical tools to describe and solve problems drawn from the physical, biological, economic and engineering worlds. Differential equations, modelling, numerical methods and computation are the everyday materials. Graduates often work in modelling and simulation, data analysis, finance, engineering, software and research.
PGDipArts Māori Studies
Cultural and ethnic studies examines how groups form identity, how race and ethnicity are constructed and contested, and how culture carries power. Students combine social theory with history, media analysis and community-based research. Graduates often work in education, community organisations, media, policy, museums or advocacy.
PGDipArts Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language: how sounds, words, grammar and meaning are structured, how languages change, and how people acquire and use them. Evidence and analysis matter more than prescriptive rules. Graduates often work in language technology, speech and language services, teaching, translation, publishing, research and user experience.
PGDipArts Indigenous Studies
An area-studies field that examines societies, histories and cultures beyond a single national frame, comparing how different peoples organise politics, economies and everyday life. Students work with texts, archives, media and often another language. Graduates commonly enter research, policy analysis, media, education, cultural work and international organisations.
PGDipArts History
Human history traces how societies have lived, ruled, traded, believed and changed over long stretches of time. Rather than memorising events, the discipline trains people to work with sources, question who wrote them and why, and build arguments about causes. Graduates often move into research, teaching, heritage, journalism, law and public policy.
PGDipArts Geography
Geography brings together physical systems such as climate, rivers and landforms with human patterns of cities, migration, development and resource use, asking how place shapes both. Mapping, fieldwork and spatial data analysis are central skills. Graduates often work in planning, environmental management, geographic information systems, development, research and logistics.
PGDipArts Gender Studies
Gender Studies examines how ideas about gender shape law, work, family life, media and power. Students read social theory, history and cultural criticism, and learn to analyse evidence about inequality. Graduates often move into policy, research, advocacy, human resources, journalism, education and the non-profit sector.
PGDipArts Film and Media Studies
Film treats cinema as an art form and as an industry: how moving images are constructed, how story and sound work on an audience, and how production and distribution operate. Graduates often work in production, editing, programming, criticism, marketing, and across broadcast and streaming media.
PGDipArts English
World Englishes studies the many forms English takes as it is used, adapted and reshaped by different speech communities. Work here covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and attitudes to variation, alongside questions of identity, power and standardisation. Graduates often go into language teaching, publishing, editing, research and communication roles.
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