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- Specialise in your particular area of interest, acquiring knowledge and analytical skills you can apply throughout your career.
- Opportunity to progress on to the PhD program.
- Gain research and development skills with specialist facilities, laboratories, hardware and software.
- Work with a supervisor to complete a research project in your field of study.
Highlights
- Specialise in your particular area of interest, acquiring knowledge and analytical skills you can apply throughout your career.
- Opportunity to progress on to the PhD program.
- Gain research and development skills with specialist facilities, laboratories, hardware and software.
- Work with a supervisor to complete a research project in your field of study.
Why choose this course?
The primary aim of the Bachelor of Science (Honours) course is to provide a strong and practical foundation both for research and professional employment in science. Advanced theory, professional training (where appropriate), and a research project that leads to a research paper or thesis are therefore incorporated within the course.
In addition to developing graduates' skills in knowledge and problem solving to an advanced level, the Bachelor of Science (Honours) program aims to equip graduates with well-developed skills in lifelong learning and a strong commitment to professional and ethical practice.
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The Bachelor of Science (Honours) allows students to further develop specific areas of expertise in science by providing extended modern and rigorous training in science. It prepares students both for higher-level graduate careers in industry and government and for research at a PhD level or a Master of Philosophy.
Through a combination of research and advanced coursework units, students pursue specialised studies in an area of mutual interest with a personal research mentor/supervisor. Students will develop high level skills in a specific discipline area (biological science, earth science, environmental science, chemistry or physics) and acquire research skills appropriate to their discipline. Coursework units provide students the opportunity to develop much more advanced skills and knowledge compared with those built in the undergraduate course. Students will design and undertake experimental programs in either laboratory or field settings to solve complex problems. A research project allows students to demonstrate their advanced academic capability and culminates in the completion of an honours thesis.
Careers and outcomes
Research or graduate employment in industry or government.
Professional recognition
Membership in professional organisations is not specifically tied to the completion of an Honours degree as entry requirements are met by the completion of the bachelor degree.
Research pathways
Honours provides the key research pathway to postgraduate study. The program is designed to easily articulate into a Master of Philosophy or into a PhD (depending upon the level of honours attained).
Possible careers
- Agronomist
- Analytical chemist
- Biologist
- Biomedical laboratory officer
- Chemist industrial
- Coastal scientist
- Conservation biologist
- Cytologist
- Ecologist
- Educational researcher
- Environmental health officer
- Environmental scientist
- Environmental manager
- Exploration geologist
- Forensic biologist
- Geologist
- Geophysicist
- Geoscientist
- Government officer
- Hydrogeologist
- Industrial chemist
- Inventor
- Investigator
- Laboratory assistant
- Laboratory technician (chemistry)
- Mapping scientist
- Marine scientist
- Microbiologist
- Mine geologist
- Natural resource scientist
- Plant biotechnologist
- Policy officer
- Policy analyst
- Population ecologist
- Project manager
- Scientist
You must complete 96 credit points (8 units) from one of the following study areas:
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- Environmental Science
- Physics
You must complete 96 credit points (8 units) from one of the following study areas:
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- Environmental Science
- Physics
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: CSP $9,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $45,600 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: CSP $9,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $42,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
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