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Imagine using living organisms to modify products for the better – like creating a new vaccine to save millions of lives. When you study a Bachelor of Biotechnology, you will help to develop technologies that improve our communities and the health of our planet. You might even be the researcher that develops a super crop that can survive harsh climates and feed the hungry. The products of biotechnology are all around us and you can be at the forefront of scientific development and discovery.
Biochemistry, bioethics, biotechnology, biotechnology finance and commercialisation, cell and molecular biology, DNA technology, microbiology, molecular genetics, reproductive physiology.
Biochemist, biotechnologist, clinical research coordinator, geneticist, laboratory analyst, microbiologist. Biotechnology is predicted to be a key for solving global issues in the future, such as human and animal diseases, climate change, fuel alternatives and food security.
Graduates can apply for membership to AusBiotch, the Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Australian Institute of Biology.
Optional 10-week full-time industrial placement, the longest placement available to undergraduate biotechnology students in Australia. A feature of this degree is the separate courses focusing on laboratory skills which provides students with a hands-on experience.
Available as an additional year (or part-time eqv) to students based on merit.
Assumed knowledge: Mathematics Advanced, Chemistry. If you have limited knowledge in these subjects you should enrol in bridging courses offered by the University's English Language and Foundation Studies Centre before you start the program. Bridging and enabling courses.
Recommended studies: Biology, Physics.
If you completed higher education or partial higher education studies your grade point average can be converted to a selection rank to be used for admission purposes.
If you studied vocational education and training, the type of qualification, whether or not you completed it, and if it was graded or competency-based, will all be taken into consideration to assess your eligibility for admission.
If you haven't completed any formal secondary, VET or higher education studies we offer a range of options to get you on the pathway to your dream degree.
If you have already successfully undertaken relevant study at another higher education institution or from the TAFE/VET sector, you may be granted credit on enrolment in a program. This is in addition to using that study to help determine your rank and eligibility to enter a program at the University of Newcastle.
View all details of this course on the UON website.
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