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Bachelor Degree

The Bachelor degree provides initial preparation for professional careers and postgraduate study.

Graduates of a Bachelor degree possess a range of academic and vocational attributes such as:

  • an understanding of a systematic and coherent body of knowledge and its underlying principles and concepts;
  • Communication and problem solving skills;
  • the ability to undertake research, analyse information and apply knowledge and techniques learnt within an academic or professional context;
  • skills for self-directed and lifelong learning; and
  • interpersonal and teamwork skills appropriate to employment and/or further study.

There are a range of pathways to the Bachelor degree, including completion of a Senior Secondary Certificate of Education, bridging or foundation programs and a Diploma or Advanced Diploma qualification which may involve articulation and credit transfer arrangements.

There are a variety of Bachelor degree programs, including:

  • the three year degree;
  • the three or four year (or longer) professional degree;
  • combined or double degree programs;
  • graduate entry degrees; and
  • the Bachelor Honours degree which may be taken as an additional year following the three year degree or is awarded on the basis of meritorious achievement in degrees of four or more years.

More specific information about the Bachelor degree guidelines, including fuller descriptions of the types of Bachelor degree programs, is available here.

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