Robert Half Salary Survey
Marketing professionals with certifications earn 43% more than those without.
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the Next Level
Practical digital marketing courses designed by industry professionals who hire talent.
- Demonstrable skills to impress employers
- Learn-by-doing and create a portfolio
- Always instructor-led, live feedback
Our industry experts have designed a marketing training course that pays itself off
Robert Half Salary Survey
Marketing and creative roles salary growth outpaces the average.
DMI CMO Survey
87% of employers are more likely to hire candidates with a digital marketing certification.
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Professional Certification
Search Engine Marketing Fundamentals (SEO + PPC)
This 5-day short course is the best starter course for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), by examining best practices and process, then…
Start Date 22/7/2026Duration 5 daysBook Now$2,250$1,500 30% OFF -
Professional Certification
Search Engine Marketing Fundamentals (SEO + PPC)
This 5-day short course is the best starter course for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), by examining best practices and process, then…
Start Date 22/7/2026Duration 5 daysBook Now$2,250$1,500 30% OFF
Why Train with The Next Level Academy?
We appreciate that you have a choice to train with anyone, so we are highlighting three signature Next Level Academy benefits that our graduates value.
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Build & retain skills by running actual marketing campaigns
Most marketing courses tell you what to do; but our courses go further to show you HOW to do it, before you do it yourself. This experience proves to prospective employers that you can do it.
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Flexible training options to suit all learners
Catering to all situations and learning preferences, you can choose any combination of options: Online vs physical classroom, Course duration ranging from 12-month diploma to one-day workshops, Full-time vs part-time, Group classes vs one-on-one apprenticeship.
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Designed & delivered by industry professionals for the workplace
We recruit our trainers for their years of experience, which includes hiring, managing, and mentoring early-career professionals; so their courses are designed to showcase your skills and hard work to employers through a portfolio of marketing plans, creative work, and advertising campaigns that will differentiate you from other job candidates.
What Learners are saying about Our Course
Our Learners’ Experience With Us
Watch a preview of what some of our learners and graduates have to say about their experience training with us.
NLA Learner Survey
98% of our learners agree that the training develops skills to make them more employable.
NLA Graduate Survey
88% of graduates from our Certification courses have either secured an internship, job, or promotion in the area of training.
Train With Industry Experts Who Can 'Walk The Talk'
Software & Tools You Will Learn To Master
Our Partner Brands and Employers
How We Are Transforming Training in Digital Marketing
Watch how we approach training and assessment by starting with the end in mind. Training courses are developed with only one thing in mind: preparing our graduates to succeed in the workplace. Our Course Designers are not just practitioners and employers in marketing, but they also work with industry experts to design the course with all the necessary knowledge and skills required for that role, and only those things, and nothing else to waste your time. Our Trainers and Assessors are nationally accredited mentors with real-world experience and expertise in their areas of training.
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NLA Learner Survey
98% of our learners agree that the training develops skills to make them more employable.
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NLA Graduate Survey
88% of graduates from our Certification courses have either secured an internship, job, or promotion in the area of training.
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NLA Graduate Survey
88% of graduates from our Certification courses have either secured an internship, job, or promotion in the area of training.
What You Get From Our Courses
The Diploma of Digital Marketing is the only nationally recognised qualification for digital marketing skills in the workplace. Completing this Diploma also earns you FIVE highly sought-after industry micro-credentials, including: Content Marketing Micro-credentials, SEO & Search Engine Marketing Micro-credentials OR Social Media Marketing Micro-credentials, Marketing Analytics Micro-credentials, Google Analytics certification, Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate OR Meta (Facebook) Certified Digital Marketing Associate. All our certificates and credentials can be proudly displayed on your LinkedIn profile to showcase to employers that you have both the initiative and fundamental knowledge and skills to start working in marketing.
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Designed by a nationally accredited training organisation for the workplace
This Diploma course is not just any ordinary self-paced online course with recorded videos and simple quizzes. It is approved by the Australian Skills Quality Authority because it was designed and taught by industry professionals to train learners for the workplace, equipping them with the knowledge and skills that it took them years to develop. This means that this course will require you to create the same content and campaigns that they would at work. Learners can be reassured that the quality of this course adheres to the latest and highest standards of vocational education and training in Australia.
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Professional industry micro-credentials highly sought after by employers
Micro-credentials are a certified short course or badge for a specific set of skills that can be completed quickly without committing to a full degree. It is often used for quick upskilling and to strengthen a CV, especially when a degree no longer provides differentiation. Employers value micro-credentials as a candidate's commitment to professional development. Check out our list of micro-credential courses here.
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Real-world knowledge, skills, campaigns worth 6 months of work experience
This Diploma course requires learners to observe our trainer's demonstration of real-world tasks, then replicate it on actual case studies, websites, and advertising campaigns. Learners' content and advertising campaigns will be published and the learner reviews and optimises its performance; all of which, contributes towards a professional portfolio and a level of confidence that is earned only from actual experience. This is the work typically done by marketing professionals in the first six to nine months of their career.
How We Are Vested In Your Success
At Next Level Academy, we put our support staff in charge of Customer Success because we believe that your success in the workplace is our primary measure of success. We want to build a reputation among employers as the industry's best trainers of talent. All learners in our certification courses have access to mentors, support, and resources to craft your point-of-difference in the job market.
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Internships and Work Placements
Our Customer Success team negotiates marketing internships and work placements with potential employers and other organisations, and make them available for our learners and graduates to apply. The process is competitive and rigorous to ensure both the intern and client organisation match up well and get the most out of the arrangement.
Learn why an internship makes a difference in your job search
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Skill Audit and Job Search Strategy
Our Customer Success team also work with recruiters and employers to keep up with the latest trends and development in the job market. They help course designers understand the demand for both the core and newest skills, which shape the continuous improvement of our training courses. This catalogue of job roles and requirements help us design accurate tools for skill assessments and job search strategies. Professional development and personal branding are baked into all of our certification courses.
Take a free, 10-minute survey to assess your current knowledge and skills in marketing.
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Industry Events and Networking
Every quarter, we host an informal event for our learners and graduates to meet industry practitioners; many of whom are not only looking out for new talent to hire, but are also willing to mentor early-career professionals. Every year, we organise a more formal job fair event where recruiters and employers can meet our latest graduates, watch their final presentations, or judge hackathons.
Learn about our links to the industry and potential employers.
Who are The Next Level Academy and What Drives Us
The Next Level Academy is a nationally-accredited Registered Training Organisation (RTO 3188) providing vocational and professional training courses in Australia and international markets such as Singapore, United Kingdom, and United States. We currently deliver training courses in physical classrooms in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, as well as, live or synchronous online training courses in virtual classrooms worldwide.
Our Purpose
The Next Level Academy was founded for one purpose: To help marketing students everywhere close the widening gap between what they must learn for the job and what they were being taught. The problem and impact was too big for us to ignore: (1) So much human potential is wasted because too many graduates are taught the wrong things by the wrong people, and they miss out all the benefits of a marketing career. (2) So much productivity is lost because employers have little choice but to bear the burden of additional time and cost on recruiting, training, and managing employees to make up for their skill gap.
Our Vision
We envision a future where The Next Level Academy will be the Number 1 choice in the world for training and development because we are a marketplace of skills and talent development for both professionals and employers, with the range of training topics and options wide enough to be your lifelong career partner.
Our Values
Our four values guide everything we do, every decision or policy we make, every product or service we design, and every market we enter. If it doesn't sit right with us, we simply won't do it.
- We value training and development over 'education', just as we value application more than theory. This is why we hire trainers who can 'walk the talk' and share their experience having 'been there, done that'.
- We value quality over quantity, just as we value results over promises. This is why we would prefer to have very high graduate employment rates, even if it means that our training is tougher and our classes are smaller.
- We value effort over achievement, just as we value progress over perfection. This is why we train only those who are ready to improve themselves today.
- We value mentorship over lectureship, just as we value wisdom over knowledge. This is why our trainers spend twice as long demonstrating, observing, and guiding as they do speaking.
Corporate Training and Partnerships
We offer both public short courses and customised in-house training to help organisations close skill gaps. If you're looking for talent, then we have internship and work placement programs, as well as, networking events for you to meet the best of our job-ready graduates. Click here for more information on how we work with organisations and employers.
Corporate Training
Our short courses can be attended by individual employees or entire teams, with online and in-person options, either during the workday or in evenings and weekends. Short courses can be purchased individually or as part of a corporate subscription plan bundle. Customised training programs are led by training needs analysis and skill audits, and can be adapted for the organisation by incorporating industry case studies and internal data.
Placement & Recruitment
Our training courses are designed by your professional peers with the workplace in mind, which means that our graduates have spent time developing all the necessary skills, and actual content production and campaign experience to hit the ground running. Our team will work with you to create internship and work placement projects, and present a shortlist of the best-matching candidates. We also offer cadetships where your new hires can train with us part-time, while working for you full-time.
Sponsorship
Our training courses are practical and rich in real-world case studies and client projects because we work with organisations as content partners in an effort to introduce our learners to the brands and workings of an industry. In addition to growing employer brand awareness, sponsoring content and guest speaker opportunities for a particular training topic can further strengthen your positioning and access to the best of our job-ready graduates.
Power-Ups For Your CV
The Diploma course offers a nationally recognised qualification, professional accreditation, and professional and industry micro-credentials that you can showcase in your CV and LinkedIn profile.
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Diploma Certificate
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Certified Digital Marketing Professional
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Micro-credential in SEO and SEM
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