Postgraduate Diplomas

Postgraduate diplomas generally comprise a one year full-time programme of graduate papers. They build on attainment in a prior degree and demonstrated practical, professional or scholarly experience.

Waikato University offers the following specialist postgraduate diplomas.

• Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Graphic Design
• Postgraduate Diploma in the Practice of Psychology (Applied Behaviour Analysis), (Community Psychology) or (Organisational Psychology)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology (Clinical)

Postgraduate diplomas are also offered in the subjects below.

Within some postgraduate diplomas, further specialisation in a particular area of study is available. For example, a specialisation in In-Service Teacher Educator, Māori Medium Teaching/Te Rōpū Tohu Paerua, or Music Education is available within the Postgraduate Diploma of Education (PGDip(Ed)).

• Accounting
  Agribusiness
  
• Anthropology
• Applied Linguistics
• Biological Sciences
• Business Futures and Leadership
• Chemistry
• Chinese
• Computer Science
• Demography
• Development Studies
• Earth Sciences
• Economics
• Education
• Education Studies
• Educational Leadership
• Electronic Commerce
• Electronics
• English
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Environmental Planning
• Finance
• French
• Geography
• German
• Health Development and Policy
• History
• Human Development
• Human Resource Management
• International Management
• International Relations and Security Studies
• Interpreting and Translating Māori
• Japanese
• Labour Studies
• Language and Literacy Education
• Law
• Management
• Management and Sustainability
• Management Communication
• Management Studies
• Management Systems
• Māori Media and Communication
• Marketing
• Materials and Processing
• Mathematics
• Mathematics Education
• Music
• Personal Financial Planning
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Public Policy
• Public Relations
• Science Education
• Science and Technology Education
• Screen and Media Studies
• Second Language Teaching
• Social Enterprise
• Social Policy
• Social Science Research
• Sociology
• Special Education
• Sport and Leisure Studies
• Statistics
• Strategic Management
• Te Reo Māori/Māori Language
• Technology Education
• Theatre Studies
• Tikanga Māori/Māori Cultural Studies
• Tourism and Hospitality Management
• Women’s and Gender Studies