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Career Opportunities

If you are looking for a career that will be both rewarding and challenging you should consider one of our programs. Through our extensive range of programs and courses, the Faculty of Science and Information Technology is able to help you on the way to an exciting and rewarding career.

Bachelor of Applied Information Technology (Ourimbah Campus)

On completion of the degree your choice of careers is wide open. As a graduate with two specialisations you will be qualified to access positions in a wider range of fields than graduates with just a single area of study. You have the choice of working solely in information technology, in your second field of study, or in a job that combines both. This program is particularly suited for students who wish to gain credit for existing TAFE qualifications in Information Technology.

Field choices include programmer, systems analyst, business analyst, help desk support, applications developer analyst, information analyst.

Bachelor of Communication

Bachelor of Communications Career opportunities for graduates include industries such as broadcasting, corporate communications, marketing and public relations, journalism and education. They may seek work as researchers, writers, and producers of video and radio programs, as journalist and photojournalists and as magazine and advertising copywriters. Graduates have also been successful in securing employment in media liaison or public relations units of large corporate organisations.

Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)

Visual Communication graduates are involved in the development of design for advertising material for print, film, theatre, television and in the making of digital media, illustration, corporate graphics, publishing, packaging, signage and event promotions.

Bachelor of Development Studies

Career opportunities include policy formulation and implementation, field investigations and administration of development matters. Potential employers are government departments, aid agencies, non-government organisations and a growing number of international corporations.

Bachelor of Environmental Science

Graduates in Environmental Science may find employment in areas such as:

Local, state and federal governments in a wide range of environmental fields;

Government and semi-government environmental management units (forestry, electricity supply, water and irrigation supply, soil conservation, national parks and wildlife services, total catchment management);

National and state mapping authorities (computer-based data processing activity, aerial field surveys);

Tourism bodies (tourism based research and planning, consultancy, transport planning, recreation planning);

Consultancies (environmental impact statement preparation, planning activities);

International agencies (international aid and development projects);

Educational institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary education in science with further studies);

Department of Agriculture (soil science and conservation, land care projects, research);

Department of Land and Water Resources (water quality, wastewater treatment, hydrology); and

Environmental organisations (Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation).

Bachelor of Herbal Therapies (Ourimbah Campus)

Herbal Therapists work as private practitioners or members of multi-professional health-care teams.

They are also employed within the herbal industry in areas such as manufacturing, sales, and the increasing demand for industry production.

Bachelor of Human Nutrition (Ourimbah Campus)

Bachelor of Nutrition

Career opportunities may be available in the following areas: the food manufacturing industry and community health, professional positions in consumer relations, nutrition education, technical sales, as a private nutrition consultant, quality control and quality assurance, product development in food and pharmaceutical industries, food services management and research positions in universities.

Bachelor of Illustration (Natural History)

Natural History Illustrators are generally specialists who work in the publishing, display or exhibition fields. Illustrators may be employed or work freelance in scientific institutions, the publishing industry, educational institutions, libraries, galleries, museums, at archaeological or fossil sites, herbariums or for anthropologists, scientists and taxonomists.

Bachelor of Information Science

Career opportunities include computer programmer, computer support office, database administrator, business analyst, systems analyst, network manager, roles in human resource management in the government and private sector, advertising, accounting, roles in organisations involved with market surveys, quality assurance, business or investment analysis.

Bachelor of Information Technology

This program produces information systems technology professionals with a business emphasis and is particularly suited to those seeking a career in large organisations.

Career opportunities include project manager, systems architect, web developer, games developer, business analyst, systems analyst, network manager, computer programmer, computer support officer, database administrator, roles in human resource management in the government and private sectors, advertising, accounting, roles in organisations involved with market surveys, quality assurance and business or investment analysis.

Bachelor of Mathematics

Mathematicians find work in industry, international finance, banking, medicine, research, management and strategic planning, finance houses, insurance companies, taxation and computer enterprises.

Nearly one-third of all mathematics graduates end up in middle to senior management positions within 10 years of starting a career in industry. By choosing appropriate electives, you can tailor your program to place yourself in an optimal position for employment in many areas.

Bachelor of Psychology

Psychology graduates have the opportunity to work in a number of specialist areas (some requiring further studies), and within a variety of organisations in both the public and private sectors.

Examples include clinical psychologists, clinical neuropsychologists, counselling and community psychologists, educational and development psychologists, forensic psychologists, health and sports psychologists, academic and research psychologists, and organisational psychologists.

Bachelor of Science (Callaghan & Ourimbah Campuses)

Because of the flexibility within a Science program, our students graduate with knowledge and experience applicable to a range of careers. This makes Bachelor of Science graduates highly sought after in the workforce.

Depending on the courses chosen, employment may be gained in private industry and government organisations, areas concerned with teaching and health, scientific product sales and support, product quality control, development and research, technology management and non-government aid agencies and community organisations.

Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology)

This program will prepare students for employment in biomedical research, pathology laboratories, biotechnology industries, bio-analytical laboratories in government and industry, reproductive biology industries and a range of veterinary and agricultural support industries as well as the legal profession as it pertains to this industry and government support and regulatory agencies.

Bachelor of Science (Food Technology) (Ourimbah Campus)

Bachelor of Food Technology

Career opportunities may include food product development, quality control, food plant management, food research, sensory evaluation, food analysis, food service and biotechnology.

There are also a range of technical and administrative positions within government departments in the areas of food analysis, food safety and pollution control.

Bachelor of Science (Photonics)

Companies need graduates to design, manufacture and test equipment. By 2006, at least 700 graduates will be required per year by the Australian and international photonics industry - companies such as Telstra, Siemens, Ericsson, ADC/AOFT and JDS-Uniphase. As the average life of a photonic product is 6 months, the industry must continually innovate!