Program Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Complex Systems equips students to analyze, design, and manage complex systems, including smart cities, power grids, and socioecological systems. Graduates gain expertise in modeling, forecasting, and crisis management strategies, preparing them for careers in research, government, and industry. This unique diploma, offered only in the Southern Hemisphere, leverages the expertise of the Centre for Complex Systems and provides graduates with a competitive advantage in the global market.
Program Outline
Outline:
The Graduate Diploma in Complex Systems will provide you with an understanding on how to model, analyse and design resilient technological, socioeconomic and socioecological systems, as well as develop strategies for crisis forecasting and management. You will complete foundational and core complex systems units, as well as elective units as needed to meet the requirements of the course.
Careers:
Graduates will have a competitive advantage to pursue careers in major multi-national research and development companies, government and crisis management agencies, and large health, construction and transport organisations. This can be used for career advancement or as a measure of a graduate's ability to undertake further study and achieve completion of the full Master of Complex Systems program outcomes.
Other:
Only diploma of its kind offered in the Southern Hemisphere We are a top 20 university globally (2025 QS World University Rankings) Access to more than 1200 industry, not-for-profits and government partners to gain real-world work experience before you graduate.
