The Graduate Diploma of Applied Data Analytics is a 1 year full-time (or equivalent part-time) degree that provides students with:

• Exposure to best practice in data analytics.
• Cutting edge courses in areas of relevance to data analytics practitioners.
• An opportunity to deepen knowledge in one of the three areas of computation, statistics, or social science.
• Professional development for practicing data analytics professionals.
• The opportunity to undertake research of professional relevance. 

The program will be taught in intensive blended mode with students expected to be enrolled part-time.

Graduates from ANU have been rated as Australia's most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide.

The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia's top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply computing, statistical, and social science principles to solve data analytics problems;
2. Apply data analytics methods and techniques to decision making about policy, business and service delivery;
3. Contribute as an effective member to the performance of a data analytics workplace;
4. Demonstrate basic technical expertise in computing, statistics, and social science as relevant to data analytics.
5. Be able to work to specification and according to a deadline, document tasks undertaken, and report outcomes to a third party.
6. Be capable of independent learning with some ability to evaluate critically work undertake.