Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

RMIT University - City / Bundoora

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Overview

Gain an end-to-end understanding of how pharmaceutical products are designed and developed, as well as the process involved in their large scale production.

As the pharmaceutical industry expands in Australia and world-wide, your understanding of the engineering process and other scientific fields involved in drug development and production will give the skills to work across a range of roles.

You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the principles of chemical engineering and pharmaceutical sciences, allowing you to apply your knowledge to large scale production in the pharmaceutical industry.

As an RMIT chemical engineering and pharmaceutical sciences double degree student, you’ll undertake design projects and practical experiences which allow you to apply your knowledge and skills.

You’ll gain real world experience through work placement in industry or by working on an industry-suggested project in a simulated work environment.

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English other than EAL or at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL); Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Maths: General Mathematics, Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in Chemistry.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

Demonstrated proficiency equivalent to stated Year 12 prerequisites.

Majors

Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Potential Career Outcomes

The type of careers this qualification leads to may include biomaterials and diagnostic agents, chemical engineering, consulting, cosmetics, environmental management and water and waste water pollution control, food, mineral and metallurgical industries, petroleum, and petrochemical industries, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, plastics/polymers, project design, research and development, water.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer98.0099.95
Median rank to receive an offer82.2091.30
Lowest rank to receive an offer68.4583.25

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the RMIT University website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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