Bachelor of Molecular Sciences and Master of Bioinformatics The University of Western Australia

Overview

This Combined Bachelor's and Master's (CBM) is a four-year accelerated program for those with an ATAR of 90 or above. Over the first three years you'll complete an extended major in Molecular Life Sciences or Plant Biology, and some units from the Master of Bioinformatics. 

You can then choose to exit after three years with an Advanced Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Sciences, or continue with the Master of Bioinformatics and be awarded a Bachelor of Molecular Sciences and a Master of Bioinformatics at the end of the four years.

Career opportunities:

• Career options include agricultural consultancy, biotechnology, drug development, food production and quality control, fermentation industries and chemical production. 

• Life scientists find jobs in diagnostic laboratories in hospitals, veterinary health, toxicology and allied health fields. 

• Opportunities beyond the laboratory include education, patent law and policy-making, as well as in agriculture and the environment, sales and marketing for medical, research and pharmaceutical industries. 

• With their specialist knowledge of living systems, molecular life scientists find work as journalists and science communicators. 

• A degree in Molecular Life Sciences is also an ideal launchpad for specialised postgraduate courses in bioinformatics, synthetic biology or forensics. 

• Finally, many careers in the molecular life sciences benefit from further study towards a higher degree by research, so that graduates can reach more senior positions in research and development, whether in academia or in industry.