A wide range of options are available in this 5 year combined degree. The Bachelor of Arts degree must be completed in accordance with the requirements for the award of a BA. Students interested in this combined degree must discuss their planned program with the individual program Authorities. There may be restrictions on course availability due to timetabling constraints.

Please note that there may be a minimum UAI requirement for entry to the combined BE/BA degree. Please contact the School of Mining Engineering for more information.

Please refer to the BE Mining Engineering (Program 3140) degree or the School of Mining Engineering and the Faculty of Arts for information on the Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes.

Please contact the School of Mining Engineeringand the Faculty of Arts for information on the Program Structure.

In the Bachelor of Engineering degree programs the same formal program is offered to both Pass students and to those aiming at Honours. Honours will be awarded for meritorious performance over the program: special attention is paid to a candidate's performance in the final year courses and thesis project.

In the cases of combined degrees, such as the BE BA or the BE BSc, the award of the BA or BSc degree at Honours level requires two additional sessions of study.

Students wishing to gain a degree at Honours level in Arts or in Science as part of their combined degree program must meet all the relevant requirements of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Science and of the appropriate school concerned. Students may enrol for the Honours year only on the recommendation of the Head of their School in the Faculty of Engineering and with the approval of the Head of the appropriate Arts or Science School. For Honours in Science, approval must also be sought from the Science Cross Faculty Standing Committee or its delegated authorities. AUSTUDY support is available for the combined degree program including the Honours level.

These combined programs of five years full-time study enable students in the School to qualify for the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts. With these programs students can add their choice of an Arts major to the standard professionally accredited Mining Engineering program. It provides flexibility in course choice within the full Arts program and enables students to obtain the broader education offered by the Arts and Social Sciences. Since Engineering and Arts programs can have a common content, such as mathematics and physics, approximately two additional sessions of study are required to gain the additional qualifications of Bachelor of Arts. In general, this additional study is taken concurrently with the BE program and both can be completed within 10 sessions.

The programs are open to all students who satisfy both the Mining Engineering and Arts entry conditions. Students may enter directly in Year 1 or may apply to transfer from the normal engineering program after completion of at least one year if they have a credit or higher average or permission from the Head of School.

The BE BA programs are administered by the School of Mining Engineering. The School requires the student to obtain the approval of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the BA components of their program. The School of Mining Engineering must approve the final program timetable.

1. Students must complete 60 units of credit in the BA program with no more than 24 units of credit obtained at Level 1 (i.e. subjects designed for students in their first year of study). Of these 24 Level 1 units of credit, no more than 12 units of credit may be from any one school of department.

2. Students must complete a major sequence (42 units of credit) in one of the following areas:

Students completing an Environmental Studies major sequence must complete, in addition to the 30 Upper Level units of credit specified, 6 level 1 units of credit in an approved course. Students must also complete a minor sequence of 24 units of credit on one of the other areas listed above.

3. Except for courses completed as part of the Environmental Studies major sequences, no more than 12 units of credit may be obtained from subjects in the BA program which are offered by schools outside the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

4. No subject included for credit in the BE programs can be included in the 60 units of credit required at Rule 1 for the BA program.

5. Students must complete the full requirements of the program 3140 BE in Mining Engineering except that they are exempt from the General Education requirement of the BE program. However, students will not be eligible for graduation for the BE until a minimum of 12 units of credit of the BA have been successfully completed.

6. Students who complete the requirements for the BA program and the first two years of the BE BA program may proceed to graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

7. Students may be awarded Honours in the BA by successful completion of an Honours year. It should be noted that entry into a particular BA Honours program will require completion of courses additional to those specified under rules 1-4.

8. The total units of credit in the combined program is 5 x 48 = 240.

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following web-page:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

All students must complete at least 60 working days of approved industrial experience (or professional practice in the case of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems students) prior to enrolment in the final year of their program. The award of the degree is dependent on the completion of the requisite periods of industrial employment at a standard approved by the University.