Choosing an Academic Program

Your choice of which academic program to pursue is an important one. If your interest in Science is broad-based, or you are uncertain about which scientific topic will interest you most, you should give some thought to the Bachelor of Science degree (BSc).

This degree allows you to choose from a very large range of courses (i.e. subjects) and, moreover, will permit you to identify a career pathway through your choice of courses. For example, if you are interested in the behaviour of humans (psychology), you can choose to study psychology in each of the three years of your BSc degree, and support it with courses like biology (to understand the biological basis of behaviour) and pharmacology (to understand how drugs might alter behaviour).

However, if your Science interest is very specific at this stage, then you should try to find the degree that best matches your interests. For example, if you're interested in some aspects of the food manufacturing industry, you can read about the Bachelor of Food & Nutrition Science program that we offer.

A frequently asked question is what is the difference between biomedical science, molecular biology and biotechnology? In general terms, biotechnology could be regarded as a science which combines scientific and engineering disciplines with the overall objective of producing therapeutic and commercial products of a typically biological nature. Biomedical science aims to understand the mechanisms of human health and disease, whilst molecular biology is the study of gene structure, function and regulation at the molecular level.

Information on our programs can be found in Program Finder.