92% employed within four months of graduating.
Graduate Outcomes Survey 2021-2023 - Undergraduate Engineering
Degree overview
Map your future
The work of surveyors knows no bounds and could see you play an important role not only within your local community, but also across countries and continents.
What is surveying? Surveyors specialise in the measurement, management, analysis and display of spatial information describing the Earth and its physical features. Surveyors work on the local and global scale, on projects as diverse as the planning of local facilities, to the prediction of earthquakes and mapping of the ocean floor.
Why combine surveying with business? Complete these two bachelor degrees in just five years. Match your technical skills with broad understanding of local and global business environments. Learn how to manage people and projects, start a consulting firm or manage a business. Prepare yourself for a leadership role with this dynamic and flexible skillset.
World top 200
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for Civil and Structural Engineering
Ranked 1
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in NSW for skills development
World top 200
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for business and economics
Career opportunities
Surveyors are involved in the planning of almost all development and mapping of the land and earth. A shortage of surveyors in Australia has led to high demand for graduates. Surveyors work in consultancies, private practice, the mining industry and government organisations.
Your business skills will help you move into leadership roles, support you to start your own business or take your technical skills into a different work environment altogether.
Typical positions include:
- Registered Land Surveyor
- Mining Surveyor
- Hydrographic Surveyor
- Town Planning
- Geospatial Specialist
- Photogrammetrist
Course overview
Build critical surveying, technical and engineering skills by studying courses in:
- cadastral surveying
- modern surveying techniques and computations
- geodesy
- Industrial surveying
- photogrammetry and laser scanning
- satellite positioning
- spatial data systems and remote sensing
- legal systems and processes for land management
- town planning
- mine surveying
- hydrology and water engineering
Develop your business skills in:
- accounting
- finance
- microeconomics for business decisions
- law
- management
- leadership and ethics
- entrepreneurship and innovation
Student experience
Demo Day: First Year Surveying 1:13
Hear from our first year surveying student about his project and testing at Demo Day.
Career-ready placements
All University of Newcastle engineering students complete 12 weeks of industrial experience during their degree. This can be completed in one block or as shorter placements of no less than two weeks.
Through your work placement you’ll build important professional networks and put your learning into practice.
The Bachelor of Business integrates opportunities for you to gain national and international workplace experience and professional mentoring, building practical skills and work-ready graduates.
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Student showcase
Solving downstream erosion 2:24
By predicting flow rates, Rob's research could help reduce erosion downstream from wiers.
Changing the world with engineering: Surveying at The University of Newcastle 1:16
Our Bachelor of Surveying (Honours) degree is designed to train surveyors capable of meeting the biggest global surveying and town planning challenges
How to apply
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This degree program is accredited by the Council of Reciprocating Surveyors Boards of Australia and New Zealand (CRSBANZ)
This program is accepted by the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information of NSW (BOSSI) as a qualification for registration.
This program is accredited and recognised by the Land Surveyors Board, Malaysia.
This program is accredited by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (Land Surveying Division).
The Newcastle Business School is accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), earned by fewer than 5% of the world's business programs.
The EQUIS accreditation measures our performance against rigorous international standards which validates the high quality and professional relevance of our education programs and research.
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