Graduate Certificate in Sports Analytics

Bring your A-game to a career in sports analytics

With professional sports teams and athletes placing greater emphasis on technology and data in their quest for success and victory, there's never been a better time to study sports analytics.

This extremely flexible, fully online course will teach you to collect, analyse and interpret sporting data generated from a range of systems. You will evaluate it using cutting-edge performance technology, transmit interventions, and communicate your findings via visual, textual and verbal channels to a number of different audiences.

Delivered by academics currently active in Australia's high-performance sports environment, you will gain contemporary, evidence-based training which will ultimately allow you to assist coaching staff to develop tactics and appropriate training loads while achieving individual and team performance goals.

At the completion of your course, you will be a confident user of the data and video analysis technology needed to interpret sporting performances and will have developed firm ideas about how to produce a winning team. You can apply for International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport (ISPAS) accreditation and will be officially ready to become a champion in the field of sports analytics.

Study a Graduate Certificate in Sports Analytics at UC and you will:

• develop and apply specialised knowledge in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data generated from sports performance and athlete management
• critically evaluate the use of performance technology and data in sports and training-based contexts
• produce, interpret and transmit interventions based on sports performance data
• communicate performance data and recommendations via multiple channels to a range of audiences.

Work Integrated Learning

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is a key component of this course, with all assessment activities mimicking those which would be undertaken in the real world of a sports performance analyst. You will monitor matches and analyse the performance and progress of real sporting teams and athletes, before presenting your results.

The course content and structure has been developed with ongoing input and feedback from key partner organisations within the high-performance sporting industry, such as Brumbies Rugby, Canberra United Football Club, UC Capitals, the Australian Institute of Sport and UC's Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UCRISE).

Career opportunities

• Sports director
• Team general manager
• Technical director
• Head coach
• Team scout
• Sports agent
• Performance analyst
• Freelance coach
• Referee.

Course-specific information

Applicants must hold a completed bachelor's degree. Admission to this course is competitive. Applications will be assessed on the basis of academic merit and number of available places.

Students must have a basic understanding of the Microsoft Office suite of programs (or equivalent) together with a basic understanding of a broad range of sports. They must also have a basic understanding of statistical procedures.

This course is offered fully online and international students may undertake this course online in their home countries.

Following completion of the Graduate Certificate in Sports Analytics, students will be eligible to apply for International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport (ISPAS) accreditation (Level 2). The ISPAS provides an infrastructure of professionalisation, information and training opportunities for accredited performance analysts.

Professional accreditation

None.