Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Mathematics

Graduates find work in a diverse range of exciting fields. Some examples include:

• natural resources: measuring fish populations and predicting sustainable fishing limits
• agriculture: from climate modelling to the interaction between crop yields and prices harvest schedules and environmental impacts
• genetics: including gene sequencing and quantitative genetics
• chemistry and biochemistry: operations research and statistical techniques to improve workflow processes of chemical laboratories. Scientific computation and visualisation related to research areas such as drug design using combinatorial chemistry
• infection and disease control: using statistics and mathematical modelling
• bioinformatics: analysing and modelling data arising in molecular biology genome sequencing and gene networks
• physical measuring and imaging techniques: measuring and modelling using applied and computational mathematics.

On graduation students may also be eligible for membership in the Australian Mathematical Society (AMS) ANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics a division of AMS) the Australian Society for Operations Research Inc. (ASOR) and the Statistical Society of Australia.

• Bachelor of Mathematics
• Bachelor of Science

• Analytical chemist
• Astrophysicist
• Biochemist
• Biologist
• Biotechnologist
• Biotechnology scientist
• Chemist
• Chemist industrial
• Coastal scientist
• Conservation biologist
• Ecologist
• Environmental health officer
• Environmental scientist
• Environmental manager
• Exploration geologist
• Forensic biologist
• Forensic chemist
• Geologist
• Geophysicist
• Geoscientist
• Government officer
• Hydrogeologist
• Industrial chemist
• Inventor
• Laboratory assistant
• Laboratory technician (chemistry)
• Life scientist
• Mapping scientist
• Marine scientist
• Mathematician
• Medical physicist
• Microbiologist
• Mine geologist
• Molecular biologist
• Natural resource scientist
• Physicist
• Plant biotechnologist
• Policy officer
• Policy analyst
• Population ecologist
• Project manager
• Scientist
• Statistician

Students are required to complete 384 credit points comprised of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Science program and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Mathematics program.

• 7 Core units (60 credit points) which includes 6 credit point units and a core option unit (12 credit points) selected from an approved list
• 11 Major units (132 credit points)

• 8 Core units (96 credit points) which includes 1 core option unit (12 credit points) selected from an approved list
• 8 Major core units (96 credit points).

Core option units

You may choose from a wide variety of introductory units from other disciplines offered at QUT or you may choose additional mathematics units. The additional mathematics units include a unit specially designed to assist students without a background of successful study in Mathematics C at high school; an alternative unit aimed at high achieving students that explores some interesting and unusual aspects of mathematics in some detail; and a unit introducing the field of computational and simulation science which combines mathematics science and computing to simulate real-world problems.

Students are required to complete 384 credit points comprised of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Science program and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Mathematics program.

• 7 Core units (60 credit points) which includes 6 credit point units and a core option unit (12 credit points) selected from an approved list.
• 11 Major units (132 credit points)

• 8 Core units (96 credit points) which includes 1 core option unit (12 credit points) selected from an approved list
• 8 Major core units (96 credit points).

Core Option Units

You may choose from a wide variety of introductory units from other disciplines offered at QUT or you may choose additional mathematics units. The additional mathematics units include a unit specially designed to assist students without a background of successful study in Mathematics C at high school; an alternative unit aimed at high achieving students that explores some interesting and unusual aspects of mathematics in some detail; and a unit introducing the field of computational and simulation science which combines mathematics science and computing to simulate real-world problems.