Master of Science (BioSciences)

Breed zoology with plant science and cross-pollinate with genetics and you've produced the Master of Science (BioSciences). This uniquely collaborative course is yours to personalise. Select your area of specialisation and pair it with a choice of professional skill-building subjects. The defining feature of the course is a major research project in your study area. You'll be supervised by one of our renowned researchers, who work on everything from sensory ecology to aquaculture technology and plant pathology. Your research experience might inspire you to continue to a PhD, or you can put your analytical and communication skills to use in the global workforce, alongside many of our alumni. You can choose to focus on any of our bioscience disciplines: ecology, evolution, environmental science, genetics, genomics, development, or plant science. You'll then complement your discipline-specific subject choices and research project with professional skills subjects.You’ll leave the course with a major research project to feature in your CV. In the research project, you’ll develop and apply scientific tools to real-world problems, in a lab, out in the field, or on a computer, working in the research team of one of our academics.If you’d like to gain even more real-world experience, you can choose to complete an internship in a science or technology-related workplace for course credit.

To be considered for entry into this course, you must have an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a directly related discipline with a Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of at least 65% (or equivalent) in the best 50 points of appropriate discipline studies at third year. Disciplines relevant to this course include biomedicine, computational biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, genetics, physiology, plant science, veterinary science or zoology.