Our understanding of the world is advancing at an unprecedented pace.

Scientists are exploring new frontiers and making exciting new discoveries that provide the raw material for new inventions. UNSW Science is where the brightest minds converge to learn, explore, discover and grow.

We provide a vibrant and welcoming community that will prepare you for real-world challenges and future leadership opportunities.

Our programs provide a breadth of choice and a depth of knowledge to suit your talents and interests. And our state-of-the-art facilities, award-winning researchers and excellent teachers will help you achieve your goals.

We’re motivated not only by passion at UNSW Science, but also by a well-defined purpose. We solve complex scientific mysteries, investigate issues of global importance and invent and build the technologies that will shape the future – and we do it in collaboration with high profile industry partners and leading research institutions around the world.

This section of the Online Handbook covers the courses and programs available for study in science and provides a framework of the rules and regulations. Staff in the schools of the Faculty and the Science Student Centre are available to help you with administrative matters, course selection and career directions, and with any difficulties you may encounter in your studies.

We encourage you to explore the full diversity of opportunities on offer, to specialise on the one hand and yet gain an appreciation of scholarship in other areas. It is important that you learn to think creatively and critically, and to work with others in order to resolve complex problems.

We wish you every success at UNSW. We hope that the time you spend with us, as valued members of our community, will be happy, stimulating and productive and that in future years you will look back on "the UNSW experience" as one which set you on the path to fulfilling your career and lifestyle aspirations.

We believe that tomorrow's leaders will be drawn more and more from the ranks of science. We invite you to join us and let us help to make sense of this amazing world and prepare you to play your important part in a future that promises to be more amazing still.

Professor Merlin Crossley
Dean
Faculty of Science

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