Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology/Medical Science

University of Technology Sydney

This highly customisable major combines subjects in medical and environmental biotechnology, preparing students to drive new innovations in human and planetary health. Using their extensive subject choice options, they can build deep expertise in their chosen discipline or build a broad knowledge base that spans the breadth of the biotech field. As well as getting hands-on with emerging technology, students engage with course content that goes beyond scientific and technical skills development with subjects in biobusiness and intellectual property commercialisation.Depending on their study plan, graduates can develop and deploy new vaccines, diagnostics and medicines for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals, pathology and biomedical firms, universities and research institutes become research associates, consultants, field scientists, microbiologists, conservation officers, environmental officers or consultants, or biotechnologists across a wide range of industries, including government or biosecurity agencies or design, develop and oversee policy for government and regulatory bodies like the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

Faculty of Science

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