Choose a rewarding career in public health, health services or community development with a health science degree from VU.

Our degree provides the foundations for a range of health and science careers. You’ll study core bioscience, research and public-health topics. From your second year, you’ll choose a health-science or biomedical specialisation in line with your career aspirations.

You’ll graduate with expertise in:

• disease and injury prevention
• health research
• health promotion
• basic epidemiology.

We offer flexible study options and a hands-on approach that will have you job-ready for your chosen career. You’ll graduate with the skills and knowledge to work on government health programs and private-practice initiatives, and with NGOs.

You can progress further in the health field with our top-rated graduate program. Study more-advanced topics and gain high-level research skills with a masters or doctoral degree.

When you graduate, you may find employment in areas such as:

• public health
• health promotion
• health and community organisations
• pharmaceutical industries
• professional associations
• health foundations
• health administration
• public health research programs
• policy and development
• program development with non-government organisations.
• education.

Salaries

The following are averaged salaries in health services from the government site Job Outlook:

• health services managers, A$78,800
• health promotion professionals, A$70,600