Bachelor of Biotechnology
Overview
As a graduate, you can work in many areas including production of vaccines, antibiotics and drugs, creating alternative fuels, quality control, and even producing the latest flavours and sweeteners for the food industry. During your studies, you’ll learn how to use innovative and sustainable technologies for the benefit of your community, wider Australia and overseas. This laboratory-based degree has a core of basic science studies including principles of modern instrumentation, experimental design and data analysis, biochemical and microbiological techniques and recombinant DNA technology. You can also explore in depth your favorite area through a research project in your final year as well as your choice of electives.
University Details
Federation University Australia (FedUni) has multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia and has achieved a maximum five-star rating for teaching quality in the Good Universities Guide from 2010-2014. As one of Victoria’s 5-star universities, FedUni offers over 400 comprehensive study programs – ranging from short term courses to degrees and beyond. The Ballarat and Mount Helen campuses are well known for their nursing programs. Ranked number one in Victoria for student support, FedUni has the highest rate of graduates in overall employment of any Victorian-based university, and average starting salaries are higher than graduates from other Australian universities as well, as per the Good Universities Guide report. Nursing and paramedicine students can gain hands-on practice in real-life challenging settings in the simulated home environment learning space at Mt Helen.
Duration: 3 years
Delivery mode :On Campus
Entry Criteria
- 65% aggregate in Higher secondary
- IELTS individual and overall 6
- Campus : Ballarat (Mt Helen), Gippsland (Churchill)
- Intakes : Semester 1 & 2
- View Details : https://study.federation. edu.au/#/course/DST5
Course Outcome
Graduates can work as:
- Biotechnologist
- Clinical scientist
- Biological scientist
- Ecological advisor
- Forensic scientist
- Healthcare scientist (genetics)
- Healthcare scientist (IVF)
- Immunologist
- Life scientist
- Patent examiner
- Policy advisor
- Research and development scientist
- Zoologist