Bachelor of Science

UniSC's Bachelor of Science is a flexible, major-based science degree rather than a narrowly specified single-discipline qualification, letting students choose from majors spanning environmental science, biology, chemistry, marine science, and similar fields depending on the year's offering. Given the campus's location, the environmental and marine science options draw genuine advantage from proximity: the Sunshine Coast sits between coastal reef and estuary systems and the Great Sandy biosphere region, and UniSC's own research strengths (the university has notable output in coastal ecology and marine science) filter down into undergraduate field trips and lab work in a way a landlocked science faculty couldn't replicate.

First year is common core across majors (general biology, chemistry, and quantitative methods) before students specialise from second year, with an increasing share of major electives and a capstone research or field project in the final year.

Graduates typically move into environmental consultancy, laboratory and research assistant roles, government environmental agencies, or further postgraduate study, with the university's regional environmental science reputation being a genuine drawcard for that particular major relative to some metropolitan competitors.