Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport
Targeted at professionals and students with varied backgrounds, the Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport offers flexible part-time and full-time study pathways, commencing in either Autumn or Spring. This course stands out for its collaboration with industry experts, providing a robust foundation and advanced skills for high performance sport careers.
It offers a unique blend of theory and evidence-based practice, taught by world-leading academics and industry professionals. You will gain an advanced understanding across diverse high performance sport areas, preparing you to lead and innovate in the industry.
You will learn through a combination of online delivery and real-world application, including a professional practice experience that can be integrated with your current employment or allow you to explore new opportunities. This hands-on approach ensures you can apply your knowledge directly to the sport industry, fostering professional growth and networking opportunities.
Our staff are globally recognised for their research and collaboration in the high-performance sport industry, focusing on athlete health, wellbeing, and performance. Co-developed and delivered with current industry practitioners, our course offers flexibility, expert-led content, and alignment with industry needs, making it truly distinctive.
The course's flexibility allows you to study from anywhere, with online subjects tailored to local and global industry needs. Domestic students also benefit from access to cutting-edge facilities at the UTS Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation building in Moore Park.
Graduates emerge ready to excel in the competitive, global high performance sport arena, equipped to drive success for athletes and teams.
Staff are highly respected globally in the field of sport and exercise science, health and human performance with extensive links to industry both locally and internationally. Their work focuses on collaborating with coaches to enhance athlete welfare and highlights the relationships between physical exercise and optimal performance, health and wellbeing in a range of diverse populations. Unique characteristics of the Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport include its flexible curriculum, ability to commence in either Autumn or Spring session, exposure to world-leaders in high performance sport and content suited to student-specific learning goals that meet the extensive requirements of industry.
Subjects are delivered online, and students are able to contextualise their learning to their local industry and community needs as well as experience expertise from world leading sport performance professionals.
As subjects are delivered online, there is no requirement for international students to leave their home country and work integrated learning experiences can be organised locally.
Domestic students also have access to the UTS Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation building at the Moore Park Precinct, where students are supported by world-class infrastructure and state of the art research laboratories alongside several leading sporting organisations. This location provides a unique environment and access to teams and athletic organisations who can also offer students practical placements and internship opportunities.
Overall, this course ensures graduates are prepared both theoretically and practically to succeed in a competitive, dynamic, and global environment to enable athletes and teams achieve lasting success.
Campus Information
Moore Park
Moore Park: Sydney’s premier sporting precinct is home to UTS's sport and exercise programs, as well as sports media classes and the Graduate School of Health’s physio program. A stone’s throw from the Sydney Cricket Ground, UTS's facilities are co-located with Rugby Australia and Australia’s elite national rugby teams. In fact, this arrangement is an Australian-first for university programs embedded within an elite sporting complex. The location allows UTS to cement connections with top sports organisations at Moore Park, developing prime opportunities for UTS students seeking internships and experience in professional sport.
Intakes
- Feb Deadline: Jan
- July
- Dec
Application Processing Time in Days: 20
Application Process
Minimum English Language Requirements
| English Level Description | IELTS (1.0 -9.0) | TOEFL IBT (0-120) | TOEFL CBT (0-300) | PTE (10-90) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expert | 9 | 120 | 297-300 | 86-90 | |
| Very Good | 8.5 | 115-119 | 280-293 | 83-86 | |
| Very Good | 8 | 110-114 | 270-280 | 79-83 | |
| Good | 7.5 | 102-109 | 253-267 | 73-79 | |
| Good | 7 | 94-101 | 240-253 | 65-73 | |
| Competent | 6.5 | 79-93 | 213-233 | 58-65 | |
| Competent | 6 | 60-78 | 170-210 | 50-58 | |
| Modest | 5.5 | 46-59 | 133-210 | 43-50 | |
| Modest | 5 | 35-45 | 107-133 | 36-43 | |
| Limited | 4 | 32-34 | 97-103 | 30-36 | |
| Extremely Limited | < 4 | < 31 | < 93 | < 30 |
Job Opportunity Potential
CareerHub:
CareerHub is our free digital platform where you can advertise graduate roles, internships, casual positions, and volunteering opportunities to UTS students. It’s also the place to promote webinars, competitions and other opportunities to our community of over 44,000 current students and recent graduates.
UTS Careers Fair:
The UTS Careers Fair is targeted at penultimate and final year students and is also open all undergraduate and postgraduate, local and international students. Each employer selects the types of students they wish to target (by year level and faculty) in the registration process. Students are all given colour-coded badges when they arrive so that employers can see who corresponds to their desired candidates, and a map of the booths, to easily find these employers. Additionally, each employer booth is coded with the students with whom they would like to meet so that the process is further streamlined. We will also have Careers Ambassadors, who are students working on the event, to assist you where needed.
PSW Opportunity
Post Study Work Steam Renames to Post Higher Education Work Steam.
- Bachelor degree holders including honours can get upto 2 years of post study stay
- Master by course work and extended (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 2 years
- Masters by research (with a duration exceeding 2 years) and PhD holder can stay upto 3 years
- The Maximum eligible age to apply for PSW will be reduced to 35 years of age from 50 years of age for all applicants
Due to the Australian Indian Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement signed by the 2 countries, according to which:
- Indian students completing bachelor degree including honours can stay upto 2 years
- Bachelor degree with First class honours in STEM including ICT can stay upto 3 years
- Masters by coursework in extended researched (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 3 years
- PhD students can stay upto 4 years
Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria
Master of Teaching in Secondary Education
- IELTS (Academic): 7.5 overall, speaking 8.0, listening 8.0, reading 7.0, writing 7.0
- TOEFL (Internet-based): 102-109 overall, speaking 23-27, listening 23-27, reading 23-27, writing 27
- PTE (Academic): 73-78 overall, speaking 79, listening 79, reading 65, writing 65
- CAE: 191-199 overall, speaking 200, listening 200, reading 185, writing 185
- AE5/AE6 (PASS): N/A
Advanced Master of Business Administration
Graduate Certificate in Business Practice
Master of Advanced Journalism
Master of Advanced Journalism (Extension)
Graduate Diploma in Advanced Journalism
Master of Media Practice and Industry
Graduate Certificate in Media Practice and Industry
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 overall with a writing score of 6.5
- TOEFL (Internet-based): 94-101 overall with a writing score of 24
- PTE (Academic): 65-72 overall with a writing score of 58
- CAE: 185-190 with a writing score of 176
- AE5/AE6 (PASS): AE6
Master of Pharmacy
Master of Pharmacy (International)
Master of Clinical Psychology
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 overall, 7.0 in each subtest
- TOEFL (Internet-based): 94 overall, reading 24, listening 24, speaking 23, writing 27
- PTE (Academic): 65 overall, speaking 65, listening 65, reading 65, writing 65
- CAE: N/A
- AE5/AE6 (PASS): N/A
Master of Physiotherapy
Master of Genetic Counselling
Master of Speech Pathology
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 overall, writing 7.0
- TOEFL (Internet-based): 94-101 overall, writing 27
- PTE (Academic): 65-72
- CAE: 185-190
- AE5/AE6 (PASS): AE6
All other courses
- IELTS (Academic): 6.5 overall, writing 6.0
- TOEFL (Internet-based): 79-93 overall, writing 21
- PTE (Academic): 58-64
- CAE: 176-184
- AE5/AE6 (PASS): AE5
- Course Type: Full Time
- Course Level: Post Graduate Diploma or Certificate
- Duration: 01 Year
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Total Tuition Fee:
43152 AUD
Average Cost of Living: 29710 AUD /year
Application Fee: 100 AUD
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