Expand on your science knowledge and skills for a career as a laboratory technician with our industry endorsed qualification. Our one year programme, which has been designed in collaboration with New Zealand employers, provides you with specific knowledge, practical skills and relevant analytical techniques for work as a laboratory technician. You will also gain an understanding of laboratory quality management practice and reporting skills suitable for international quality standards. Enrich and broaden your knowledge with electives in areas such as microbiology, analytical and environmental chemistry, food microbiology and molecular biology. This graduate diploma includes a work placement element to enhance your employment prospects. In order to make sure you complete a programme of study that best suits your needs, please consult with the programme leader when selecting your courses.

With hands-on laboratory and industry experience, you will position yourself ahead of your peers for employment which can lead to positions of responsibility within a range of fields including health, animal, food, manufacturing, research and environmental laboratories. Please note that this programme does not lead to a medical laboratory technology qualification.