Water Resources Management
Overview
The program aims to train students to understand the scientific problems involved in the management of water.
Our nested postgraduate program in water resources management is designed to meet students from different disciplines at their point of educational need and provides real flexibility both in terms of content and modes of delivery.
The program offers the possibility to produce either a degree of significant depth or a much broader program with generalised understanding of a wide range of water resources management subjects.
Students are able to combine options to emerge with skills varying from integrated water management, surface and groundwater hydrology, public health aspects of water quality, to administration and leadership skills relevant to the sector.
Hence, we train you to apply management fundamentals to solve current problems and to anticipate, mitigate and prevent future problems in the area of water resources management. You will learn to recognise and appreciate social, political, economic and environmental impacts on water resources management and last but not least to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
As Flinders University is home to the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, the largest centre specialising in groundwater education and research in the southern hemisphere, the water resources management program taps into this expertise.
Our water resources research group belongs to the best in world; we are number 13 in the world in the Shanghai Ranking.
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Courses
Graduate Certificate in Science (Water Resources Management)
Duration: 0.5 years
Delivery mode:
In Person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code:
2GC115 (Full fee paying)
Annual indicative fees (2025):
$18,337 (Full fee paying)
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Graduate Diploma in Science (Water Resources Management)
Duration: 1 year
Delivery mode:
In person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code: 2GD081
Annual indicative fees (2025):
$35,536 (Full fee paying)
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Master of Science (Water Resources Management)*
Duration: 2 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Online
Location:
Bedford Park
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Start dates:
March
July
SATAC code: 2CM139
Annual indicative fees (2025):
$10,272 (Commonwealth supported)
Apply via SATAC
Courses
Graduate Certificate in Science (Water Resources Management)
Duration: 0.5 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
Start dates:
March
July
CRICOS code: 079417M
Annual fees:
2025: $21,900
Graduate Diploma in Science (Water Resources Management)
Duration: 1 year
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
Start dates:
March
July
CRICOS code: 079418K
Annual fees:
2025: $43,800
Master of Science (Water Resources Management)
Duration: 2 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
Start dates:
March
July
CRICOS code: 079419J
Annual fees:
2025: $43,800
Your career
Graduates of these programs will be equipped to work across government, commercial and not-for-profit organisations. Water managers hold the future of the world’s most precious resource.
Potential occupations include:
- engineer
- scientist
- resource manager
- water treatment technologist
- policy writer
- agricultural consultant.
Potential employers include:
- government departments
- engineering, environmental and water management consultancies
- water management bodies
- aid organisations
- agricultural organisations.
I am an international student here at Flinders University…I chose Flinders because here is more practical, you can see different places, different wells, different wetlands that excites you.
Caglar Bozan
What you will study
The program enables you to pursue study in water resource management in depth or to gain a more generalised understanding of a wide range of water resources management subjects. We train you to apply management fundamentals to solve current problems and to anticipate, mitigate and prevent future problems in the area of water resources management. Masters students have the opportunity to undertake a major research project or a minor research project combined with an industry placement. Topics cover areas such as fundamentals of groundwater, ecohydrology, public health aspects of water quality, geographical information systems, and project management.
Masters students have the opportunity to undertake an industry placement. It has been designed to assist you in becoming professionally aware through quality interaction with industry leaders.
For more information on course topics, contact Course Coordinator Professor Okke Batelaan:
Entry requirements
Graduate Certificate
Applicants must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering.
Graduate Diploma
Applicants must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering; or hold the Graduate Certificate in Science (Water Resources Management) or equivalent qualification.
Masters
Applicants must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering; or hold the Graduate Diploma in Science (Water Resources Management) or equivalent qualification.
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Flinders students can apply to transfer to this course internally. Visit: www.flinders.edu.au/internaltransfer for more information.
Entry requirements
Graduate Certificate
Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering, from an approved tertiary institution.
Graduate Diploma
Applicants who do not hold the Graduate Certificate in Science (Water Resources Management) must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering, from an approved tertiary institution.
Masters
Applicants who do not hold the Graduate Diploma in Science (Water Resources Management) must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline of science and engineering such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and engineering disciplines such as civil and/or environmental engineering, from an approved tertiary institution.
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