Your career

Graduates are qualified to understand the world as an integrated whole. They use a powerful mix of interdisciplinary skills to solve a range of problems. They can analyze and synthesize complex environmental, economic, social, and political information to enable an understanding of dynamic human-environment relationships.

Graduates are proficient at retrieving, synthesizing, and communicating information, as well as managing data and drawing on different sources of knowledge. They think critically and creatively, and work effectively in teams and on their own initiative. For these reasons, graduates are highly employable in a wide variety of fields within and outside environmental management.

Potential occupations include:

• policy officer
• research officer
• planning officer
• on-ground manager
• environmental consultant.

Potential employers include:

• government organizations
• non-government organizations
• the private sector.

International students studying at Flinders University will be eligible to access an additional year in Australia on a post-study work visa, which means Masters graduate can get up to 3 years of PSW visa. 

Applicants for the masters must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution.