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.
Find your qualification descriptor
Doctor of philosophy: PhD
Doctor: D
Master’s degree: M
Graduate diploma: GradDip
Graduate certificate: GradCert
Bachelor’s degree: B
Honours: Hons
Associate degree: AssocDeg
Advanced diploma: AdvDip
Diploma: Dip
Certificate IV: CertIV
Certificate III: CertIII
Certificate II: CertII
Certificate I: CertI
Find your study descriptor and field of study
Accounting: Acc
Acting: Act
Administration: Admin
Advanced: Adv
Aged: Aged
And: &
Animation: Animation
Applications: Apps
Applied: App
Arts: A/Arts
Behavioural: Behav
Big Data and Analytics: BDA
Biochemistry: Biochem
Bioinformatics: Bioinf
Biomedical Science: BioMedSc
Biotechnology: Biotech
Birth–Year 6: BirthY6
Biotechnology: Biotech
Brewing: Brew
Business: Bus
Ceramics: Cer
Civil: Civ
Clinical: Clin
Clinical Exercise Physiology: Clin ExPhys
Cloud and Enterprise Computing: CloudEntComp
Commerce: Com
Communication: Comm
Community: Commty
Computer Games and Digital Media: CompGm&DigMed
Computing: Comp
Conversion: Con
Coursework: cw
Creative: Creat
Criminal Justice: CrimJus
Design: Des
E Health and Informatics: EHlthInfo
Early Childhood Education: EChildEd
Economics: Econ
Editing: Edit
Education: Ed
Engineering: Eng/E
Engineering Management & Information Systems: EMIS
Enrolled Nursing: EN
Enterprise/s: Ent
Enterprise Systems and Business Analytics: EntSys&BusAn
Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship/Entrep
Environmental: Env
Exercise and Sports Science: ExSportSc
Finance/Financial: Fin
Fine Arts: Fine Arts
Food: Fd
Game/s: Game
Geology: Geol
Geoscience: Geosc
Health: Hlth
Hospitality: Hosp
Human: Hum
Human Resource Management: HRM
Information Technology: IT
Information Systems: Is
Innovation: Innov
Integrated Marketing Communication: IMC
International: Int
Journalism: Journ
Justice: Jus
Law: Law
Leadership: Lead
Legal: Legal
Leading and Managing Health Services: LeadMgtHlthSer
Management: Mgt
Manufacturing: Mfg
Maintenance Management: MainMgt
Marketing: Mkt
Mass Communications: MassComn
Mathematical: M
Mechanical: Mech
Media: Media
Mechanical Engineering: MechEng
Mechatronic Systems Engineering: MechSysEng
Metallurgy: Met
Midwifery: Midwifery
Mobile App Development: MobAppDev
Mining: Min
Multimedia: Mm
Music Theatre: MusThtr
Network: Net
Networking and Security: NtSec
Nursing: N
Nutritional: Nutr
Occupational Health & Safety: OHS
Paramedicine: Paramed
Reliability Engineering: RelEng
Philanthropy: Philanthropy
Physiology: Phys
Physical Education: PE
Practice: Prac
Primary and Secondary P–10: P–10
Primary: Prim
Professional Practice: ProfPrac
Professional: Prof
Psychology: Psych
Qualifing: Qual
Regional Education and Community Development: RegEdCommtyDev
Research: Res
Rural Socail Welfare: Rur SocWel
Science: Sc
Social: Soc
Software Development: SoftDev
Software Engineering: SoftEng
Stage and Screen: StgeScreen
Sport Management: SportMgt
Studies/Study: St
Strength and Conditioning: Str&Cond
Sustainability: Sust
Sustainable Practice: SusTPrac
Systems: Sys
Technology: Tech
Tourism: Tsm
Veterinary and Wildlife Science: VetWildSc
Veterinary Bioscience: VetBio