Overview

The Applied Positive Psychology program from CQUniversity Australia is designed to train professionals to enhance and facilitate positive change, wellbeing, and resilience. In this course, you will learn the tools needed to enhance mental, emotional and physical wellbeing in individuals, organisations and communities.

Key facts

Positive Psychology is a rapidly growing field focusing on the scientific study of wellbeing and resilience and is changing the way we live and work.

As there is an increased recognition that wellbeing is essential to the workplace as well as in our personal life, professionals who can implement positive change are in high demand.

This course incorporates elements from a number of highly relevant fields and contemporary topics including positive psychology, coaching psychology, health promotion, positive education, counselling, asset-based community development, eco-psychology, and social innovation.

This will help you graduate with skills and knowledge that can be applied across many occupations and holistic education experience. By completing the Master of Applied Positive Psychology, you will be able to work in a wide variety of occupations and will be well prepared to work with children, teenagers, and adults.

Career Opportunities

The Master of Applied Positive Psychology is designed to provide professionals working in a coaching, training, counselling or managerial roles as well as those with an interest in wellbeing and resilience with the skills required to create positive change.

By completing an applied research project in your final year of study, you will also improve your professional research capabilities.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Inter-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Wellbeing

Group Facilitation Skills

Building Wellbeing and Resilience: Interconnected Factors

Positive Psychology: Research Methods

Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales

Coaching Individuals for Positive Change

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-03-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-10 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-02-24 00:00:00 , National

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International:

Closing dates may vary depending on your country.

We encourage you to submit your application at least three months before your desired intake.

Language

English

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Credits

72 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines

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General requirements

CRICOS Code: 00219C

If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America, you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University. Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of:

A secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent), or

An Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) diploma level qualification, or

Bachelor level qualification study for a period of at least 2 years fulltime with a minimum overall GPA 4.0

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

34080 AUD / year

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Citizens or residents

28992 AUD / year

≈ 28992 AUD / year

Funding

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