Program Overview
This research-focused degree equips health service professionals with advanced research skills for practical healthcare innovations and policy development. Students conduct original research under supervision, contributing to knowledge in their specialized area and fostering informed participation in research and health services improvement. The program provides a structured framework for research preparation and thesis production, preparing graduates for research-intensive roles in the healthcare sector.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This degree is designed for health service professionals who wish to develop research skills that have practical applications for innovations and policy in the healthcare sector and scholarly understanding of health services provision. It enables informed participation in research endeavors and health services innovation and improvement. Students extend and deepen their knowledge of a specialized area in health services through a program of supervised research. This course assists students to complete original research that contributes to knowledge in their field within an international context.
Outline:
This course is a structured program of study incorporating research preparation subjects undertaken in the first year and the production of a research thesis for examination. Students are required to undertake a candidature assessment at the end of the first two sessions for full-time students, and at the end of the first three sessions for part-time students.
Careers:
This degree offers solid research training to health service professionals who are required to undertake research in their current employment or who aspire to such positions.
Tuition Fees and Payment Information:
Domestic Students (FT)
- Research Training Program: The majority of domestic students who are offered entry to a graduate research degree will have the cost of their tuition fees covered by the Australian Government’s Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset Scholarship. If you are granted an RTP Fee Offset Scholarship you are not required to pay tuition fees for up to the maximum period of time allowable to complete your study.
- Recipients of an RTP Fee Offset Scholarship should however still expect to pay the ongoing costs of being part of an academic environment and conducting research. In addition to ongoing costs, you may also be required to pay a Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
- Scholarships: In addition, research scholarships up to the value of $40,000 are available to support living expenses for domestic students to study master's by research and doctoral programs at UTS.
- Tuition fee calculations: Tuition fees and RTP Fee Offset Scholarship amounts are incurred pro-rata based on the number of days a student is enrolled in each research degree session and whether the student is enrolled after the research census date.
- UTS Alumni save 10%: alumni.uts.edu.au/advantage
International Students (FT)
- Tuition fees for international students vary between courses and range from A$19,840 to A$34,080 per year.
- Tuition fees for postgraduate research degrees are charged pro-rata based on the number of days a student is enrolled in each research degree session and whether the student is enrolled after the research census date.
- Tuition fees for international postgraduate research students can be found using fees search.
- Tuition fees must be paid in advance each session and are subject to annual increase. Fees for future year(s) published in fees search, whilst unlikely to change, are estimates only. UTS makes every effort to provide up to date future year(s) fee estimates and to limit any changes, however, UTS reserves the right to vary fees for future year(s) at any time.
- For this course, the cost per session for 2024 is $20730. The expected number of sessions are 4.
- All international students should familiarise themselves with the following documents:
- Protocol on refund of fees for international students - contains the refund of fees information for international students.
- Tuition Protection Service - designed to ensure that students receive the tuition they have paid for
- In addition to tuition fees, students may be required to pay a Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). Textbooks and other course materials will also result in additional costs.
- UTS Alumni save 10%: alumni.uts.edu.au/advantage
- For further information on costs related to your study at UTS, visit the international students' tuition fees information page.