Program Learning Outcomes

Program learning outcomes identify the minimum level that graduates must achieve to be successful in a program.

In particular, program learning outcomes frame what will be learned and assessed and the nature of learning activity experienced within the course.

  • Features of program learning outcomes

    Program learning outcomes identify the minimum level that students must achieve to graduate from that program. In particular, they frame what will be learned and assessed.

    Program learning outcomes are shaped by the:

    • essential knowledge, skills, and the application of that knowledge and skills of the appropriate qualification descriptors of the 
    • University's strategic goals and priorities, including graduate attributes
    • requirements of the discipline through  or other subject statements
    • relevant stakeholder standards and expectations including professional and industry associations, employers, workforce planning and priorities