Build a strong scientific foundation while gaining the skills and flexibility to explore your passions and shape your own career path in science. Challenge your scientific thinking and explore one of the broadest selections of science disciplines in Australia with this flexible and dynamic program.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major
This hands-on, investigatory, creative, and foundational science forms the basis of how we understand all living systems. You’ll study the molecules, systems, and chemical processes that make life possible.
- Discover what drives current research into vaccines and causes of life-threatening diseases.
- Explore the latest applications in eco-friendly industrial processes, agriculture, and sustainable food production.
- Visualize the future in synthetic biology, biotechnology, proteomics, genomics, bioinformatics, genetic engineering, and drug design.
Your award-winning lecturers are experts who will help you understand and use the latest scientific and industry tools through extensive practical laboratory experience, structured tutorials, and specialized seminars.
Career paths include some of the most exciting and challenging roles in agriculture, health, biotechnology, and environmental sectors. You’ll find employment as a research biochemist or molecular biologist in pharmaceutical development laboratories in universities, research institutes, and companies trying to understand cellular processes, investigating diseases affecting animals and plants, or searching for new biological tools.
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Delivery mode
This course is available in the following study modes:
Locations
280-284 Sir Fred Schonell Dr, St Lucia 4067
Entry Requirements
You must meet ONE of the following requirements:
Completed Year 12 (ATAR optional) with ATAR score 80.00 or equivalent.
Prerequisites
Queensland Year 12 (or equivalent):
- General English subject (Units 3 & 4, C)
- Mathematical Methods (Units 3 & 4, C); and,
- one of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science or Physics (Units 3 & 4, C)
Course fees
Course fee
$28,392
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Related career opportunities
This course will prepare you for the following roles.
About The University of Queensland
The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions. We strive for excellence through the creation, preservation, transfer and application of knowledge. For more than a century, we have educated and worked with outstanding people to deliver knowledge leadership for a better world.
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