Murdoch University
Master of Public Policy
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 24 months
- Course Type: Master's
This course will equip you with the skills required to respond to the ever-complex policy problems that states and governments confront, and to devise meaningful solutions to pressing policy challenges.
Course overview
Murdoch University has worked closely with relevant stakeholders to design the Master of Public Policy to help you to make a difference in your policy career. You will gain the knowledge and skills that you need to analyse policy problems, and to design, implement and evaluate policy in complex institutional and regulatory environments.
Key facts
What you will study
To complete the Master of Public Policy, you must fulfil 48 credit points. Each unit is valued at three credit points, unless otherwise indicated.
Core units
- Governance, Public Policy, and the Transforming State
- Political Communication: Actors, Challenges, and Digital Cultures
- Corruption and Anti-corruption
- Public Sector Management
- Public Policy Perspectives
While the specified electives are organised into broad policy themes, students may choose up to 12 points from any of the units from across the three themed clusters. The only required unit in Option one is GOV600 - Policy Research: Strategies, Methods and Design.
- Policy Research: Strategies, Methods and Design
OR
Human Security and Justice
- Political Economy of Development and Public Policy
- Global Governance, Security and Economy
- Security, Conflict and Violence
- International Law
- Ethics and Global Justice
- Advanced Transnational Crime
- Challenges in Food Security
- Health Policy and Governance
- Gender in Asian Societies
OR
Sustainability, Development and Society
- Critical Approaches to Development
- Political Economy of Development and Public Policy
- Resilient Regions: People and Practice
- Community Development in Indigenous Communities
- Community, Policy and Change
- Sustainability, Ecology and Communities
- Culture, Communities and Sustainability in Asia
- Business, Society and the Environment
- Coastal Policy and Management
- Energy Policy
- Climate Change Science and Policy
- Climate Change Adaptation: Ecosystems and Societies
- Environmental Policy for the 21st Century
OR
Professional Practice
- Strategic Communication three
- Managing Strategic Risk and Projects
- Data, Metrics, Reporting and Analytics
- Organisational Behaviour and Management
- Industry Project for Business
- Design Thinking Tools
- Leading the Engaged Enterprise
- Modelling the Environment
Entry requirements
- Completion of a Bachelor degree (AQF Level 7) or equivalent.
English Requirements
You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.
Outcomes
Career outcomes
- Policy Analyst
- Ministerial and Parliamentary Advisor
- Evaluation and Performance Reporting Officer
- Policy Consultant
Fees and FEE-HELP
Estimated annual fee in 2025: $17,280 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Indicative total fee in 2025: $34,560 (domestic full-fee paying place)
The fees provided are indicative and intended only as a guide. They are based on a typical full-time enrolment for a first-year student at Murdoch University of 24 credit points.
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of units studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.