Use post‑nominals after your name
When you graduate, you can use your qualification title abbreviation on official documents. Follow our step-by-step instructions to put yours together.
If you want to help prospective employers and colleagues quickly recognise your expertise area and education level, you can use post‑nominals on your résumé, email signature, professional profile and other formal documents. You've probably seen these shortened forms of qualification titles before – DipEd, BioMedSc, MBA and so on.
How to put your post-nominals together
Post‑nominals must follow a set order:
[your name] [qualification descriptor][study descriptor]([field of study]), [institute name]
You may not have a field of study. If you do, it would be part of your course title. For example, if you did a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), your field of study is Mechanical.
If you've done an honours program, write (Hons) after the study descriptor but before the field of study. If you have more than one qualification, write them in order from lowest to highest.
Examples:
Sarah Goldstein has a Bachelor of Science (Veterinary Bioscience) from Federation University. She would write:
Sarah Goldstein BSc(VetBio), Federation University
Raya Zucco has a Diploma of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts from Federation University. They would write:
Raya Zucco DipN, BArts, Federation University
Jordyn Cloud has a Bachelor of Business (Management and Marketing) from Federation University and did honours. He would write:
Jordyn Cloud BBus(Hons)(Mgt&Mkt), Federation University
You can leave off the institute name if you're short on space.