University of New South Wales
Master of Workforce Planning
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Type: Master's
Designed to support workforce planning uplift by developing strategic workforce planners.
Course overview
The Master of Workforce Planning enables the development of skills that will improve organisational productivity and outcomes through the process of systematically predicting the future demand and supply of the employees.
Graduating students will have the knowledge to enable the forecasting and deployment of capability in order to support the strategic development of the organisation. They will develop both statistical and modelling tools and technique, as well as research and critical analysis skills.
The program integrates strategic theory with modelling applications. Students will firstly learn about different aspects of developing a workforce plan, before then applying this knowledge to create new ideas and plans. For Defence students the program includes a research project course enabling students to apply their knowledge to a substantial piece of real-world research.
This fully online degree balances advanced theory with practical knowledge, offering you the opportunity to learn how to develop effective future workforce plans.
Key facts
What you will study
To complete the Master of Workforce Planning, you must fulfil five core courses, two prescribed electives and one free elective or research course.
Complete the following courses.
- People and Systems
- Workforce Planning
- Systems Thinking and Modelling
- Simulation
- Data Analysis and Applications
Entry requirements
Academic requirements
To gain entry into the Master of Workforce Planning, an applicant must meet one of the following entry requirements:
- Completion of a bachelor's degree with honours in the same or a related discipline* from a recognised institution.
- Completion of a graduate diploma or graduate certificate in the same or a related discipline from a recognised institution.
- Completion of a bachelor's degree in the same or a related discipline from a recognised institution; and completion of at least three years of relevant full-time professional experience.
- Completion of a bachelor's degree in a non-related discipline; and completion of at least four years of relevant full-time professional experience.
- Evidence of other qualifications and professional experience to be assessed as acceptable grounds for admission into the program by the relevant Program Authority. In certain circumstances, students may be required to undertake and successfully complete a relevant non-award course as a condition for admission into the program. This non-award course may also be credited towards the program upon admission.
*Related discipline/s: Business, management, economics, accounting, information technology, information systems, engineering, human resource management, project management, public policy, marketing management or law.
Outcomes
Learning outcomes
- Provide strategic workforce advice based upon synthesising and interpreting primary and secondary data, and disseminating to key stakeholders.
- Using systems and workforce planning theories, define and critically analyse complex systems to create innovative solutions.
- Collect, analyse and synthesise qualitative and quantitative data sets to determine necessary future skills, capacity surpluses and gaps, in order to forecast future needs in a range of complex organizational contexts.
- Be able to work with specialist and non-specialists to effectively forecast the workforce balance required to run a complex organisation into the future.
- Apply workforce planning and organisational capability theories to determine and shape the workforce resources required to achieve organisational capacity on-time and within budget.
- Present complex research findings and data in multiple ways to a range of audiences to support effective decision making.
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative cost per unit of credit in 2025: $830 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Estimated total fee in 2025: $39,840 (domestic full-fee paying place)
The amounts displayed are the cost, per unit of credit (UOC). 48 UOC is the standard full-time load for one year and most courses at UNSW are worth six UOC each.
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.