Graduate Diplomas

Graduate diplomas are generally a one year full-time programme consisting of undergraduate papers. Graduate diplomas are intended to provide the equivalent of a major in a subject other than that in which the student has majored for their first degree. Admission to these programmes generally requires a B average in the applicant's first degree.

Waikato University offers the following specialist graduate diplomas.

Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood, Primary or Secondary). An intensive one year teacher education programme. Intending technology teachers might take the GradDipT concurrently with either the Graduate Diploma of Engineering (Technology Teaching) or the Graduate Diploma of Tourism and Hospitality Management (Technology Teaching). For further information please refer to the Faculty of Education website.

Graduate diplomas are also available in the subjects below. Students need to gain 120 points at 100 level (first year papers) or above, including at least 80 points at 300 level (third year papers) or above, in the graduate diploma subjects to complete the qualification. At least 80 points must be from one of the subjects in Schedule A below. Students can make up their remaining points from Schedules A and B.

 

Schedule A

• Accounting
• Adult Education and Training (Faculty of Education Page)
• Agribusiness
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Asian Studies
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Chinese
• Computer Graphic Design
• Computer Science
• Creative Practices
• Creative Technologies
• Design Media
• Dispute Resolution
• Earth Sciences
• Economics
• Education (Faculty of Education Page)
• Education Studies
• Electronic Business
• Electronic Commerce
• Electronics
• Engineering
• English
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Environmental Planning
• Ethics
• Finance
• French
• Geography
• German
• History
• Human Development
• Human Resource Management
• Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
• Information Technology
• International Management
• Japanese
• Labour Studies
• Law
• Linguistics
• Management
• Management and Sustainability
• Management Communication
• Māori and Pacific Development
• Māori Media and Communication
• Marketing
• Materials and Processing
• Mathematics
• Music
• New Zealand Legal Studies
• New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Population Studies
• Public Policy
• Public Relations
• Religious Studies
• Screen and Media Studies
• Social Policy
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Sport and Leisure Studies
• Statistics
• Strategic Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Te Reo Māori/Māori Language
• Theatre Studies
• Tikanga Māori/Māori Cultural Studies
• Tourism and Hospitality Management
• Tourism Development
• Tourism Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies

Schedule B

• English as a Second Language
• Pacific Studies
• Social Science Research
• Treaty of Waitangi Studies/Akoranga Te Tiriti o Waitangi

For information on individual graduate diplomas, visit the relevant Faculty or School of Study.