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Graduate Certificate of Aviation (Aviation Human Factors)
PostgraduateUSQ-AHF-GCE2025
Make aviation systems and procedures safer and more efficient
Get the best human performance in aviation operations, safety, and service. You’ll unpack the principles of human factors and apply them to industry. Prepare your aviation career for take-off with managerial roles in airlines, aviation regulation and more.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 6 months full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 4
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Graduate Certificate of Aviation (Aviation Human Factors)
About this degree
On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate of Aviation, students will be able to:
- Use advanced knowledge of the aviation industry with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in their professional practice.
- Apply initiative and judgment in planning, problem solving, and ethical decision making in a professional aviation context.
- Apply critical thinking and judgment in supervised, practical situations within the aviation industry.
- Develop high level written and interpersonal communication skills appropriate to supervisory positions within the complex socio-technical aviation system.
- Engage in a range of professional and ethical research skills and/or theoretical research methodologies appropriate to the aviation context.
- Integrate relevant theory and practice related to a wide range of emergent, technological, and human interface challenges within the aviation industry.
- Discover how to ensure aviation systems and procedures are developed to work within the boundaries of an individual’s capabilities, to warrant safe and efficient aviation operations.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
AVN5102 Safety Management and Human Factors in Aviation
AVN8103 Managing a Safety Culture in Aviation
2 x Electives
Award requirements
Completion of 4 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative total fee $14,680
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- 24
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2025, within Australia:
- 25
Entry requirements
- Completion of an Australian university Bachelor degree in the area of aviation, management and/or psychology, or equivalent; or a minimum of five years’ professional work experience equivalent to a bachelor degree. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
| Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
| Air Traffic Controllers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
| Air Transport Professionals | Over $120K | Up 2.8% |
| Other Air Transport Professionals | N/A^ | N/A^ |