Postgraduate Programs

The Faculty of Sciences offers:

• Postgraduate Coursework Programs
• Honours and PhD research programs
• How to apply
• Scholarships

Major specialist research and teaching centres in which the Faculty of Sciences participates include:

• Centre of Expertise in Photonics
  
• Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter
• Australian School of Petroleum
• Special Research Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development
• The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
• Australian Stem Cell Centre

Cooperative Research Centres include:

• Invasive Animals
• Cattle & Beef Quality
• Molecular Plant Breeding
• Weed Management Systems
• Viticulture
• Plant-based Solutions to Dryland Salinity

Further partnerships include the Research Centre for the Physiology of Early Development and the National Health and Medical Research Council Program for the Early Origins of Adult Disease.

The Faculty's Roseworthy and Waite campus communities include collaborative research partners such as the:

This co-location of national and state research agencies represents the strongest concentration of applied biological and land management sciences in the southern hemisphere.

The Faculty is committed to excellence in teaching and research and strives to create future leaders of the scientific community. Members of the Faculty collaborate extensively with local, national, and international organisations, and their research and teaching activities are supported by industry, local government and national funding agencies, including the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. The Faculty ranks amongst the best nationally in terms of research performance, as indicated by research income and publications.