Bachelor of Health Science (Health Promotion, Recreational Therapy or Public Health)
Western Sydney University - Online
Overview
Create positive change to current and future thriving communities, develop your knowledge, build your health literacy, and apply skills in real world situations with a focus on promoting health and wellbeing in people’s lives. Through practical, hands-on experience, international opportunities, and experiences with leading researchers and industry engaged academics, you will be prepared for clinical and non-clinical roles. Build a comprehensive foundation of health sciences knowledge and pursue majors in public health, health promotion management, recreational therapy or clinical sciences. This is not a generic health science course but one that is designed to give you the unique edge for your preferred destination within health. If your aspirations are different to the identified health specialisations in this course, then the clinical sciences major has been designed to prepare students for a pathway to graduate clinical health studies.
The Clinical Sciences major is not offered at the Sydney City campus.
Majors
Areas of study
Public health, health promotion, health services management, recreational therapy, or clinical sciences. Students can choose to study one or two majors, or a combination of majors and minors to differentiate their skill set and increase their expertise and employability.
Potential Career Outcomes
Career opportunities
Roles for international and national health organisations and services in the clinical and non-clinical health setting. Health promotion and recreational therapy graduates will work with communities or individuals in aged care, disability and health facilities, schools, lifestyle and correctional centres. Public health and health services management graduates will work in disease control, health policy, strategy, departmental and project management roles. Clinical sciences supports future study in a clinical health professional role.
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 offer | 97.1 | 99.95 |
| Median rank to receive an offer | 67.8 | 75.95 |
| Lowest rank to receive an offer | 56.45 | 65.2 |
<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made
Admission Criteria
Please refer to the Western Sydney University website for admission criteria information.
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University
Western Sydney University
Campus
Online
Course Type
Bachelors Degree
Study Area
Health Sciences
Indicative ATAR
56.45
Delivery Mode
Online
Duration
Full-time: 3 years
Course Link
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- State
- NSW
- Type
- University
- Courses
- 292
- Campuses
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Bankstown Campbelltown Campbelltown or Orange Hawkesbury Liverpool Nirimba (Blacktown) Parramatta Parramatta City Penrith Sydney City
Please note that these statistics simply refer to the information we have in our database. This is not an exhaustive list of courses offered at Western Sydney University. Please refer to the institution's website for the most current information.
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