UNDERgRADUATE PROSPECTUS - Study Brisbane

Academic programs
Science,
Geography and
Planning
Discover a world
of possibilities
UQ is ranked in the top 40 in
Life Sciences and Biomedicine by the
2010 United Kingdom’s Times Higher
Education Supplement’s annual
ranking of world universities.
UQ is also a hub for major science
initiatives in the Asia Pacific region
for the bioscience, neuroscience,
nanotechnology, and biotechnology
fields. Our location provides unique
opportunities to study environmental,
marine, and urban planning disciplines
in a subtropical environment, with ready
access to arid, temperate, tropical, and
marine systems including World Heritage
rainforests, the Great Barrier Reef, and
outback Australia.
The UQ science advantage
You’ll not only study science at UQ,
you’ll experience it. As well as lectures
and tutorials, you will participate in field
trips, industry placements and research
projects, using the latest state-of-theart
facilities. For example, you will have
exclusive all hours access to the new
Science Learning Centre (SLC), a social
and learning hub for students that is a
relaxed and casual environment. The
SLC is equipped with bean bags and
moveable furniture, meeting rooms,
wireless Internet, and data points for
laptops, booths with built in monitors for
group study, data projectors, visualisers
and whiteboards. You will also have the
opportunity to access student-centred,
interactive learning programs to help with
your study, overseas study programs, a
range of special interest student societies,
and enrichment programs for highachieving
students.
Comprehensive programs
UQ has one of the most comprehensive
ranges of science specialisations in
Australia, offering you more choices
in science, urban planning, and
environmentally focused programs than
any other institution. Our programs are
informed by research, with world-class
scientists incorporating their latest
discoveries into their teaching, which
means you learn as they discover. Handson
experience and opportunities for field
and laboratory work let you put your
knowledge to practical use.
Excellent facilities
UQ has a reputation as Australia’s top
biological sciences research university.
Our science faciltites can be found
throughout Queensland, and include:
– Australia’s most extensive marine
science teaching and research facilities,
with field stations on the Great Barrier
Reef (Heron Island), Low Isles and
Moreton Bay (North Stradbroke Island)
– commercial aquaculture facilities
– Australia’s most comprehensive range
of electron optical instrumentation,
within UQ’s Centre for Microscopy and
Microanalysis
– innovative and integrated research
facilities, including the Institute for
Molecular Bioscience (IMB), the
Australian Institute for Bioengineering
and Nanotechnology (AIBN), the
Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), the
UQ Diamantina Institute (UQDI), the
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture
and Food Innovation (QAAFI), and the
Global Change Institute (GCI)
– GIS/RS Laboratory with remote
sensing software, GIS software,
desktop-mapping/GIS applications,
statistical software, and geodetic/
geographic applications.
Outstanding career prospects
The rapidly increasing demand for
scientists and environmental professionals
to develop solutions for society’s most
critical issues means that science
graduates enjoy a diverse array of
exciting and lucrative career prospects
both in Australia and overseas, with high
employment rates. New science graduates
from earth sciences, mathematics,
computer sciences, and the physical
sciences are regularly ranked in the top
10 starting salaries. The USA and the
European Union estimate that an extra 2.9
million scientists and engineers are needed
now, making studies in science, urban
planning or the environment at UQ a great
investment in your future.
Characterised by rapid advancements
and new discoveries, careers in science
and planning are exciting and fulfilling.
UQ graduates in these disciplines
are in high demand by a broad
range of private and public sector
employers, in areas including:
– aquaculture
– banking and economics
– biotechnology
– chemical industries
– commerce
– commercialisation
– computer programming
– conservation
– diagnostics
– ecotourism
– education and research
– environmental consulting
– fisheries
– food and agriculture
– forensic science
– intellectual property management
– law enforcement
– mining and manufacturing
– museums
– national parks
– natural resources
– pathology
– pharmaceuticals
– planning and consulting
– quarantine
– sales and marketing
– sports industry
– spatial sciences
– textiles.
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