Bachelor of Health Sciences

The pitch for this degree is flexibility: pick a full major in one health discipline, or split your electives across a major and two minors, choosing from areas as varied as Ageing, Health Management, Health Promotion, Digital Health, Physiology and Neuroscience, Psychology, and Therapy Studies. First year is common across the degree, so the actual specialisation decision doesn't have to be made until students have had a semester or two of exposure to the different areas.

That breadth suits people aiming at health system roles that aren't clinical practice itself - health promotion officers, program coordinators, policy and management roles - rather than students who already know they want to be a nurse or physiotherapist and would be better served by a direct-entry professional degree. At 108 units it's a standard three-year Bachelor of Science-equivalent load, with an optional fourth honours year available for students who want to build research skills before going on to postgraduate study.

Because the major/minor combination is genuinely open, the degree ends up serving two different student populations under one name: those using it as a stepping stone into postgraduate clinical training (nutrition, psychology, public health), and those treating the combination itself as the career-ready qualification, particularly in health promotion and management.