• Provides great flexibility, allowing you to follow your interests without being confined by traditional boundaries
• Offers career pathways and research opportunities in a broad and exciting range of professional areas     
• Does not require a science background, just an inquiring mind
• Degrees are aligned with economic and employment trends
• Develop crucial transferable skills in problem solving, communication, teamwork and computing

A degree in science opens up many job opportunities. Throughout the world there is a growing shortage of specialists who will create the next generation of ideas and products and help us maintain and conserve what we already have.

Potential occupations include:

• laboratory technician
• intellectual property analyst
• bioinformatics technician
• research assistant
• graduate ecologist.

Potential employers include:

• medical research organisations
• the biotechnology industry
• government and private consultancies
• universities
• science policy and planning departments
• education institutions.

Professional accreditation/recognition

The chemistry major is accredited by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

The physics major is accredited by the Australian Institute of Physics.