Your contribution as an educator is invaluable to our community because you do much more than impart knowledge – you inspire curiosity, shape character, and equip young people with essential life skills. Through your guidance, you foster critical thinking, empathy, and personal growth, all while opening doors to future opportunities. In shaping the minds and hearts of the next generation, you have a profound and lasting impact on individuals and on society as a whole.
Explore courses for education professionals
You’re helping to shape the next generation of leaders, thinkers and creators. Discover your own path forward with a qualification to advance your career in education at Australia’s number 1 university.
At the University of Melbourne, our innovative and world-leading curriculum underpinned by our research makes us a destination of choice for educators. Our graduates are creative critical thinkers and are immensely sought after in employment.
Master of Education
Prepare for middle or senior leadership roles. Become an expert in your chosen field of education.
Seize opportunities for overseas study and research, and tailor your Master of Education to suit your career goals and personal ambitions. You can choose from 10 specialisations, including options like Literacies and English; Mathematics and Science Education; Digital Futures and Innovative Practices; Educational Leadership, and more.
‘The Faculty of Education is known for its academic rigour and high quality of teaching. The knowledge I gained from the course also puts me in a more competitive position for senior management roles in the education sector.’
— Ali Ahsan, Master of Education graduate
Teacher training courses
Specialise your teaching with our courses in languages and TESOL, International Baccalaureate, special needs education (learning intervention), and evidence-based teaching.
Train as a languages educator with our courses in languages and TESOL, or become qualified to teach in the International Baccalaureate program, graduating with an internationally recognised qualification that could take you abroad.
Learn to support the specialist learning needs of children and young people who experience learning difficulties, disabilities, and deafness with a qualification in learning intervention.
Discover evidence-based teaching and gain the skills to tailor your teaching methods to the students in your classroom based on data.
‘You can go into a school in any country and start where you left off. That’s not something that you can do in the national curriculum.’
— Georgia Neilson, Graduate Certificate in International Education (International Baccalaureate)
Other professional education courses
Strive for a role in the broader education sector with our courses in instructional leadership, educational research, and evaluation.
Develop your skills in instructional leadership to support a career as a principal or a school-based leader, or go down an academic pathway by taking on a project in educational research.
Learn to evaluate programs and policies to deliver effective social interventions through evaluation.
‘The way I would describe it is that I felt like I started the course as the school leadership equivalent of a really great home cook but left the course as someone who could run a commercial kitchen.’
— Deborah Letcher, Master of Instructional Leadership
Quality research, which is bold and transformative, lies at the heart of everything we do at the University of Melbourne. It informs our teaching, our advocacy, and our advice to governments and industry. Our researchers are solving pressing issues facing educators, while driving change for society-wide benefits. Their work has a global reach, while still being practically applicable in local classrooms.
Study with us at the Faculty of Education to become a future leader well-equipped to face the educational challenges of a changing world.
Explore a wide range of scholarship opportunities that are available through the Faculty of Education and the University of Melbourne, including automatic consideration for a 25% fee remission for domestic students in the Master of Learning Intervention.
Applications for our first 2026 intake are open now.
