Bachelor of Science (Honours)

This degree will provide you with the foundation research skills that will support your future career as a scientist or researcher.

Specifically, you will develop:

• communication skills
• critical thinking capability
• advanced knowledge within your chosen discipline
• knowledge of research theory and practical methods
• research independence and capacity for self-directed learning.

Research experience is required for most academic and research positions, and increasingly for positions in other sectors.

In consultation with your discipline honours coordinator and your supervisor, you will be allocated a project to develop your skills to an advanced level.

These projects are developed for honours students and may be a preliminary exploration, a smaller component of a bigger research project, or part of an existing or new collaboration. All projects draw from the wide range of disciplines taught across RMIT's science programs. Many projects involve substantial cross-disciplinary work.

Discipline areas include:

• biology
• biotechnology
• chemistry
• computer science
  
  
• environmental science
• food technology
• mathematics and statistics
• physics

A list of current projects is available from the Honours Coordinator.

This undergraduate degree is closely aligned with RMIT's research community. Depending on your project, you will work with a supervisor actively involved in one of RMIT's research centres or groups, including:

• Theoretical and Quantum Physics Research Group
• Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Physics
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
• Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre
• Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry

You will collaborate with professional technicians and facility staff in some of RMIT's impressive facilities, including the:

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Facility
• RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
• RMIT Vibrational Spectroscopy Facility
• Separation Science and Mass Spectrometry Facility
• RMIT's X-ray facility

This pathway builds a solid foundation for a future career in scientific research.

Graduates of this honours degree frequently advance to a Master or PhD course and undertake further research in their particular area of interest.

Alternatively, honours graduates gain employment in industry and government as research assistants, advisors, and scientists in research centres like CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, Defence Science, the Environment Protection Authority, major Hospitals and medical research institutes and ANSTO.