The Bachelor of Health Science is designed to equip students for careers promoting health and wellbeing.

Access laboratories and testing facilities equipped with the latest technology - Swinburne is the only university in Australia with MRI and MEG labs on campus.

Explore Australian and international health challenges. Examine the physical, psychological and social aspects of health in a variety of settings. Learn about contemporary issues in health science, such as biomedical testing or health communication, and how to address them. Apply your learning in a professionally focused, multidisciplinary project during your final year of study.

Discover a career in counselling, community development, health communication, disability, social welfare or medical research. Graduates may also progress to postgraduate study in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy or nursing.

Clinical Technologies

Develop an understanding of how the human body functions through anatomy and physiology. Take your knowledge further by learning about diagnostic medical monitoring - and see what technology can reveal about human health and disease. The skills and expertise gained in this major are essential for a career in Australia’s best hospitals and research laboratories who use cutting-edge medical monitoring devices.

• Hospital scientist
• Cardiac technologist
• Clinical neurophysiologist
• Respiratory technologist
• Sleep technologist