Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts

Monash University - Clayton

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Overview

Combining science with studies in Arts, humanities or social sciences provides you with powerful communication and critical thinking skills coupled with a strong technological or scientific base and opens up a diverse range of career opportunities.

This combination will prepare you for life after study with a truly unique set of skills.

All of the Science and Arts majors are available to you in this combination.

Interested in forensic science? Pair Criminology with Chemistry and take Human rights or Pharmacology as a minor. Combine human geography with ecology and conservation biology for a career in the environmental sector. If your focus is more towards the life sciences, you might combine psychology with politics and take minors in bioethics or developmental biology and language studies. The choice is yours.

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 27 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in one of Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geography, Maths: Mathematical Methods, Maths: Specialist Mathematics, Physics or Psychology.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

As for Year 12 (or Year 12 equivalent).

Majors

Anatomy and developmental biology, Anthropology, Applied mathematics, Archaeology and ancient history, Arts, Astrophysics, Behavioural studies (minor), Biochemistry, Bioethics (minor), Botany, Chemistry, Chinese studies, Climate and atmospheric science, Communications and media studies, Computational science, Criminology, Critical performance studies (minor), Earth science, Ecology and conservation biology, Economics, Environmental science, European languages (French, German, Italian, or Spanish and Latin American), Film and screen studies, Financial and insurance mathematics, Gender studies, Genetics and Genomics, Geographical science, Geosciences, Global Asia, Health humanities, History, Holocaust and genocide studies (minor), Human geography, Human pathology, Human rights , Humanities, Immunology, Indigenous cultures and histories, Indonesian studies, International relations, International studies, Japanese studies, Jewish studies (minor), Journalism, Korean studies, Languages, Linguistics and English Language, Literary studies, Mathematical statistics, Mathematics, Microbiology, Molecular biology (minor), Music, Pharmacology, Philosophy, Physics, Physiology, Plant sciences, Politics, Psychology, Pure mathematics, Science, Social science, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology.

Potential Career Outcomes

The type of careers this qualification leads to may include Forensic science and law enforcement, Government, Scientist, Science communication, and Science policy.

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 offer99.7599.95
Median rank to receive an offer87.4092.45
Lowest rank to receive an offer72.6582.20

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

Admission Criteria

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

Course Seeker

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