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Confidently choose Deakin
Deakin’s courses are recognised by industry, recommended by your peers and will make you a highly sought-after graduate.
Ranked #14 globally
for nursing
Victoria's #1 university
for course satisfaction
Top Victorian uni
for student support
Want to advance your nursing career?
Deakin offers more specialised postgraduate nursing courses than any other Victorian university. Advance your career with a course designed flexibly for practice nurses.
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+5,500 nurse managers
+585,300 health care and social assistance
+13,600 health & welfare service managers
+1,900 nurse educators & researchers
Benefit from strong employment growth in nursing
Advance your career with one of the largest and most established nursing schools in Australia. Our postgraduate nursing degrees can provide a pathway into senior roles in management, education or research. With over 95% of Deakin graduates finding employment shortly after graduation,² you'll gain the advanced clinical skills needed to thrive in a growing sector.
Flexible online learning
Our flexible degrees let you continue your career while you study. You can learn at your own pace, when and where it suits you, without compromising quality or support.
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80%
of Deakin students found studying had a positive impact on their career.⁶
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90%
of graduates say they’d recommend studying at Deakin to family, friends or colleagues.⁶
Where could a Deakin degree take you?
Take the next step in your nursing career with Deakin. Here's what our postgraduate nursing students have to say about their experience at Deakin.
Felicity Doherty
Perioperative nursing graduate
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I work closely with surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses to provide gold standard care and I enjoy working closely with patients as I support and guide them through an environment that can seem, at times, intimidating and overwhelming.
Emma-Rose Schroder
Critical care nursing graduate
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My current job is working as a critical care nurse in the ICU. I work at the bedside in direct contact with the patient and their family and friends. I like being hands-on, busy and using critical thinking to guide my practice. I like being physically and mentally challenged and working in ICU does just that for me.
Megan Tweedle
Postgraduate nursing graduate
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Conducting my degree in affiliation with Austin Health has ensured that my clinical skills learnt were implemented into practice. Either one in isolation would not have optimised the learning experience that I obtained. I could really develop my clinical knowledge at Deakin and then apply them into practice at work.
Graduate ready for the jobs of tomorrow
You can confidently choose Deakin – for the past 40 years we’ve been perfecting distance and online learning.
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Premium online study
Join our community of students and discover why we’re in the top 1% of universities worldwide.1
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Supported learning
Learn via a premium interactive platform with Australia’s highest rated tech support.7
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