Master of Design (Design and Construct) in Adelaide Australia | Adelaide University

Adelaide University | Adelaide Australia
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Coursework)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
AUD 38,300
(c. USD27,012.99)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
24 months

This distinctive program will expand your expertise and equip you with essential competencies to guide projects from initial concepts and planning phases all the way to execution, client interactions, and community engagement. Past student projects have encompassed visitor lodgings at Port Resolution on Tanna Island, Vanuatu; Indigenous ranger housing and research centers in Fish River, Northern Territory; and residential and research facilities at Witchelina Station, South Australia. You'll participate in similar initiatives from their inception to final delivery.Our instructors are active design professionals, ensuring coursework remains aligned with current industry standards and emphasizes hands-on learning. You'll also collaborate with leading design researchers when undertaking an independent study component.Develop superior design and investigative capabilities.Train in exceptional facilities featuring cutting-edge campus workshops and creative spaces.Engage in authentic projects to acquire practical, real-world expertise.Leverage our extensive professional connections across local, national, and global industries.Learn from educators who are working practitioners with robust industry ties.This immersive graduate program provides deep insight into design's evolving, innovative landscape. You'll explore current trends, modern technologies, contemporary design challenges, construction obstacles, and project leadership.With emphasis on building complexities, design fundamentals, and client needs, you'll enhance your existing knowledge and abilities.Modern trends, technological advancements, current design topics, construction difficulties, and research form core components of this degree. You'll also create design concepts, nurture client partnerships, assess construction sites, formulate research approaches, and complete a significant research initiative.

Professional opportunities - :This comprehensive program blends design and construction. It's especially valuable for those targeting careers in fields including:

architecture (further education needed): conceptualize new structures and participate in heritage conservation
interior architecture: plan, execute, and renovate indoor environments
civil engineering (additional qualifications required): design, develop, and supervise infrastructure projects like highways, rail systems, and bridges
construction management: organize, lead, and oversee building projects and teams while maintaining budgets


Destination of Study

Subjects of Study

Language Requirements

English
IELTS 6.5

Qualification Requirements

Successful completion of a Bachelor degree or Graduate Diploma from a recognised higher education institution, or equivalent, in a related discipline. Applicants must also submit a portfolio of work, curriculum vitae and a written statement of intent.

Applicants who have completed the Graduate Diploma in Design from the University of South Australia are eligible to enter the program with 1.0 EFTSL Advanced Standing and complete the program in 1 year of full time study or equivalent part time study, and are not required to submit a portfolio of work and statement of intent.

Applicants who have completed a Master of Architecture are eligible to enter the program with 1.0 EFTSL Advanced Standing and complete the program in 1 year of full time study or equivalent part time study. Applicants must also submit a portfolio of work, curriculum vitae and a written statement of intent.

Applicants who have completed a Bachelor (Honours) degree in a related discipline are eligible to enter the program with 1.0 EFTSL Advanced Standing and complete the program in 1 year of full time study or equivalent part time study. Applicants must also submit a portfolio of work, curriculum vitae and a written statement of intent.

Related design disciplines include: architecture; planning and urban design.

English Language Requirements:

IELTS score of 6.5 (with 6.0 in Reading and Writing); TOEFL iBT score of 79 with Reading and Writing not less than 18; TOEFL paper-based test (PBT) score of 577 with TWE of 4.5; Cambridge CAE/CPE score of 177; Pearson's test of English (Academic) (PTE) score of 58 with Reading and Writing communicative scores not less than 50; CELUSA score of AE5.

Tuition AUD 38,300

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