Master of Workforce Planning

What you will study

To earn the Master of Workforce Planning, you must successfully complete units totalling 48 credit points, as detailed below. Unless otherwise noted, each course is worth 6 credit points. 

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.

English language requirements

You may be asked to provide evidence of your English proficiency to study at UNSW depending on your educational background and citizenship. English language skills are vitally important for coping with lectures, tutorials, assignments and examinations.

If you’re completing an Australian Year 12 qualification (e.g. NSW HSC or equivalent), you do not need to provide anything extra to prove your proficiency. Your qualification will be used as evidence of your English proficiency.

If you do need to provide evidence of your English proficiency, this will be indicated in your application. You can prove this by providing evidence that you meet one or more of the following criteria:

• English language tests and university English courses.
• Prior study in the medium of English.
• Other qualifications.

Contact the university or visit their website for more information.

Recognition of Prior Learning

You may be eligible for recognition of prior learning if you have previously studied or have relevant work experience. This will help reduce the number of units you need to study to finish your course. Contact the university for more information.

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.

Learning outcomes

Potential roles:

• Strategic Workforce Planner
• Workforce Management Analyst
• Demand Planner
• Capacity Planner
• HR Business Partner
• HR Manager
• Resource Allocation Manager
• Staffing Coordinator
• Workforce Strategy Consultant
• Organisational Capability Manager
• People and Systems Analyst

Fees and FEE-HELP

Indicative annual fee in 2026: $41,000 (Full-fee paying place)

Indicative annual fees are based on your first year of study.

A student’s annual fee may vary by:

• The number of units studied.
• 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 program.