The Master of Translation and Interpreting at UNSW is a two-year full-time postgraduate degree that allows you to specialise in an area relevant to your professional translating and interpreting ambitions. 

This degree combines translation studies and interpreting courses with elective courses from applied linguistics to provide you a complementary and comprehensive language education tailored to your interests. You’ll graduate with the knowledge, skills and appropriate certifications required to work as a professional translator or professional interpreter in Australia and beyond. 

Our academics provide you with real-world interpreting and translating projects in professional settings. This gives you the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills you've learned through critical analysis, independent research, project management, and teamwork.

Key features

Languages and specialisations
Our program offers translation and interpreting in the following languages, subject to demand:

• English
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• Chinese (Cantonese)
• French
• Greek
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Serbian
• Spanish

The areas of specialisation covered in the program are legal, medical, business, community and conference interpreting.

Real-world technology
You'll have access to the latest interpreting and translation technology and equipment including training stations, simultaneous interpreting booths, a moot courtroom, translation memories, machine translation, audio-visual translation (subtitling and captioning) and corpus linguistics software.