Graduate Diploma in Operations and Production Management

at Manukau Institute of Technology - Manukau Campus New Zealand

Graduates with the skills to secure Information Technology (IT) systems are critical to the economy. Make sure you have the right skills to advance your career in IT security.  Learn how to manage and secure databases and networks, and get the skills to find and fix problems. You will also have the skills to quickly move into more advanced roles, such as senior system administrator or application support analyst.

Program Highlights

• Develop your marketing ideas and people skills with MIT. You will get hands-on experience with a sales and marketing project for a real business. Learn what drives consumer behaviour in the New Zealand and international markets. Develop skills in reaching and selling to specific audiences.
• When you graduate, you will be ready for a range of strategic and creative marketing roles. Your career could take you to consultancy or market research, or even public relations.

Program Highlights

• Study with MIT and you'll learn how people and processes come together to drive results.
• You will also get hands-on experience working on an operations and production management project for a real company.
• Graduate ready for a job as a consultant, supervisor or manager.
• There are job opportunities for skilled professionals across a range of industries including logistics and manufacturing.

• If you already have a qualification from another institution, either in New Zealand or overseas, you can study the Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting.
• When you graduate, you will qualify for provisional membership of the College of Chartered Accountants of CAANZ or CPA Australia.
• This qualification includes the practical experience and professional competence components you need to become a full member of these professional accounting bodies.

Become a registered nurse with unique skills to support and enhance Pacific health. This program has a strong emphasis on cultural-identity and connections to Pacific and nursing world-views. Pacific ways of knowing and learning are woven throughout this program giving you the practical healthcare skills and hands-on clinical experience to work within your community. Smaller class sizes encourage a sense of family, aiga (Samoan), kopu tangata (Cook Islands), k?inga (Tongan), magafaoa (Niuean), matavuvale (Fijian) and k?iga (Tokelau, Tuvalu) and contributes to life-long connections. Pacific leaders, communities and organisations work collaboratively with MIT to enable you to form relationships with those in the health sector. When you graduate, you'll be ready to sit the Nursing Council of New Zealand State Examination and apply for registration as a registered nurse in New Zealand.

Want to gain or advance your skills and knowledge in cyber security or data analytics?

Whether you are already working in the industry and looking to upskill or if you want to add specialist skills to an existing qualification this postgraduate diploma will provide you with in-depth knowledge to solve tomorrow’s complex IT problems. You can choose a specialist strand in:

• Data analytics or
• Cyber security.

You will also undertake an applied project that is connected to your own practice and industry experience. This program has been designed in conjunction with industry experts so what you learn is relevant in the workplace. We also offer part-time study options so you can work and study at the same time.

Program Highlights

• Get specialist skills in human resources (HR) management with our graduate diploma.
• This qualification is for anyone who has a qualification or experience working in the HR industry.
• It will set you up with the essential skills you need to get a job in HR management.
• Work on a project for a local business, ensuring you have both skills and hands-on experience when you graduate.

This program will challenge you to develop your practical, social and academic skills to make you a valuable member within any healthcare team. Get hands-on clinical experience from day one, from learning within our modern clinical learning suite, to time in both community and inpatient clinical placements. Class sizes are small so you will build strong working relationships with your peers and teaching staff throughout your journey. Your lecturers visit you regularly to help guide you to link theory to practice when out on your clinical placements. You will experience a broad range of culturally diverse and unique clinical experiences within community, inpatient and mental health settings. When you graduate, you'll be ready to sit the Nursing Council of New Zealand State Examination and apply for registration as a registered nurse in New Zealand.

Get training in key information technology (IT) skills and graduate with a degree in high demand by the industry worldwide.

This degree meets the high accreditation standards of the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP), who also endorse it as being of the calibre that provides “the best pathway to industry in New Zealand and abroad.”

You’ll be able to make a practical link between the latest digital technologies and today’s business environment ensuring that you’re well equipped to take your place in this exciting and constantly changing industry. This degree will provide you with the skills to analyse, design, develop, implement and maintain information systems across a variety of industries and business types.

As well as a strong grounding in analytical, technical and theoretical concepts this degree also uses hands-on practical methods and teaches important people skills like communication and management skills. At the culmination of this programme you’ll be able to do a real-world project where you can apply your skills in the workplace.

Data analytics

• use, design and develop both front-end and back-end data manipulation technologies to support decision making, statistical models and analytics reports that solve business problems
• analyse security, privacy, risks, opportunities and ethical issues of big data and data analytics
• design and develop multi-dimensional data warehouses from a range of internal and external databases.

High-level problem solvers are needed to keep up with the constantly evolving IT industry. Designed in conjunction with industry experts this program will provide you with the tools and knowledge to solve tomorrow’s complex IT problems. Studying part-time gives you the opportunity to be working in industry while completing your studies. You will undertake an applied research project that is connected to your own practice and industry experience. You can choose a specialist strand in:

• Data analytics
• Cyber security.