3 years February, July and October
RM49,920 Malaysian student
RM58,560 International student 2025 fees per year
Internship
( Optional)
CAREER PATHS Graduates of this course can find employment in areas such as:
• clinical trials
• intellectual property management
• biomedical product industry
• drug discovery and development
• food safety
• food production
• business development
• water management
• biodiversity and conservation
• environmental management
• analytical / biomedical chemistry
• biotechnology
• quality assurance and control
• science journalism
• process control
• microbiology
• project management and consultancy
• natural products research
• scientific and regulatory affairs
• climate change advocacy.
BACHELOR 0F SCIENCE
KPT / JPT( R3 / 0530 / 6 / 0005) 10 / 30- MQA / SWA0129
Study science at Monash and learn from leading experts whose research is shaping the world’ s future.
The choice, flexibility and depth across the range of science disciplines available at Monash means that you will graduate with a degree unique to you, tailored to your individual expertise, interests and career aspirations.
We offer specialisations ranging from cutting-edge theoretical and applied science to new interdisciplinary fields. You can choose to focus on a single major, or pursue a double major and still complete your degree within three years. Popular double majors are applied microbiology and biotechnology, and medicinal chemistry and tropical environmental biology, although any combination of the six majors is possible.
Science graduates have diverse and interesting careers. The flexibility of the training and interdisciplinary approach nurtures greater adaptability in our science graduates. Our graduates are scientists, analysts, journalist, environmental advocates, and some are attached to corporate companies as procurement, marketing and corporate personnel. What makes this course special is that it allows you to pursue non-science units at different schools, like journalism or management, to form a study plan that suits your individual needs and career aspirations. You can even supplement a major with a minor.
Get ready for the real world
Build your professional experience with a science-related internship, offered as an elective unit during your summer semester 1. This is a great way to prepare yourself for the demands of the real world. Leveraging on the industry partnerships across the country and region, we’ ve worked with multinational companies throughout the years to place our students.
Areas of study
• Applied microbiology 2
• Biotechnology
• Food science and business
• Genomics and bioinformatics
• Medicinal chemistry
• Psychology 2
• Tropical environmental biology 2
• Chemistry( minor)
• Genetics and genomics( minor).
Course structure
This course is structured in three equal parts:
A. SCIENCE SPECIFIED STUDY This will expose you to several science disciplines, contributing breadth to your understanding of science and giving you the opportunity to learn more about several disciplines before finalising your choice of major. It’ ll also provide you with the mathematical or statistical foundation for your study of science and address the nature of science and its communication.
B. SCIENCE LISTED MAJOR This will provide you with a focused course of study that will develop your expertise in one discipline area. You’ ll learn to develop, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of the discipline.
C. FREE ELECTIVE STUDY This will enable you to further develop your knowledge of your chosen major, or the sciences more broadly, or study a second science major. Alternatively, you can select units from any school in which you’ re eligible to enrol.
Your first year
This course provides you with a broad science education in your first year to let you explore your interests before you specialise in one or more areas that inspire you in your second year. This flexibility allows you to explore new areas, further develop your strengths in science, and pursue your interests beyond the area in which you specialise.
During your first year, you’ re encouraged to choose a range of subjects that can give you a breadth of science knowledge. Areas such as chemistry, biology, and statistics can go hand-in-hand with exciting subjects like earth to microbiology, biotechnology, environmental biology, and psychology. Throughout the course, you can opt to focus entirely on science or pursue complementary interests with the free-elective component of the degree.
YEAR 1 / LEVEL 1 UNITS Two Level 1 science sequences( four units) from:
• Blueprints for life and Life on Earth
• Chemistry 1 advanced and Chemistry 2 advanced
• Foundations in psychology and Introduction to psychological inquiry.
1 Depending on your intake, the summer semester may commence before your third year or in between semesters of your third year. 2 Available as a minor.
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