UndergraduateBiology & Life Sciences
Bachelor of Science
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
The Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne is a three-year degree with more than 40 majors across science, biomedicine, engineering, IT and mathematics. The first year is deliberately broad, so students can sample several fields before choosing a major, and breadth subjects in areas such as business, languages and communication sit alongside the science core. Students complete 24 subjects in total, starting with the discovery subject Today's Science, Tomorrow's World.
Learning combines lectures with laboratory work, fieldwork and research. Students can take the Science and Technology Internship or the Industry Internship subject, each with at least 80 hours of work placement, and every student is matched with an academic adviser to help plan study and graduate options. Students also get access to career workshops, job listings, interview practice and industry events, and graduates move into careers across science, health, engineering and technology or into graduate study.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 5 parts
- Year 1: common core across Chemistry
- Biology
- Physics
- and Mathematics
- plus breadth subject requirement
- Year 2: major selection from a wide list (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Environmental Science, Computing and Software Systems, and others)
- major core subjects begin
- Year 3: advanced major electives
- capstone Science Research Project embedded in an active research group
- Fourth-year Honours available by application for high-achieving students
- often a prerequisite for research higher degrees
- Breadth requirement (outside the science faculty) runs across all three years
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 (or equivalent); ATAR of approximately 85-93 typically competitive, plus prerequisite Units 3/4 Mathematical Methods.
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