ECA Professional Year - Sydney

The Professional Year

Professional Year (PY) offers the unique combination of qualified teachers with real world business experience, and highly focused modules designed to prepare you for your professional life in Australia. The ECA Advantage also provides you with additional benefits (including courses and support services) free of charge, designed to maximise your professional employment opportunities, and provide you with the opportunity to gain maximum migration points for submitting your Expression of Interest (EOI).

The Professional Year encompasses:

The PY Course Structure which is run over a minimum of 44 weeks.
The 240 hour internship in an Australian company working in your industry.
For IT students, a compulsory online program developed and managed by ACS.

Intakes are all year round in Sydney and Melbourne, and the full program (including all components) takes around one year to complete.

Professional Year offers:

Critical skills for the Australian workforce.
Business Communication Skills.
Small group, simulated business projects.
Professional internship in Australia.
Free Professional Development classes.

Potential exit benefits:

Gain 5 migration points when you graduate from PY.
Gain 10 migration points if you achieve IELTS 7.0.
Secure professional employment, work for 1 year and gain an additional 5 migration points.

ECA is an approved SMIPA and PYPIT provider of Professional Year.