94.1% employed within four months of graduating.
Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023-2025, Undergraduate Engineering
Degree overview
Combine surveying skills with business leadership
Combine technical surveying skills with business and leadership capability to prepare for a career across surveying, infrastructure, land development and spatial technologies. This combined degree brings together practical surveying knowledge with skills in management, entrepreneurship, and business strategy.
You’ll learn how spatial data and surveying technologies support infrastructure, environmental management, and digital construction, while developing the leadership and professional skills needed to manage projects, teams and business operations.
Designed with flexibility in mind, this surveying component of this program combines face-to-face and online learning with dedicated on-campus field intensives and industry experience. Through industry-led learning and practical training, you’ll graduate with a versatile skillset suited to technical, leadership and consulting roles across a rapidly evolving profession.
Ranked 1
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in NSW for skills development
World top 200
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for Civil and Structural Engineering
World top 175
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for Business and Economics
Career opportunities
Surveying is a profession experiencing strong demand across New South Wales and Australia, creating excellent employment opportunities for graduates. Surveyors are sought after across infrastructure, construction, land development, mining, environmental management and spatial technologies by government agencies, consulting firms and major infrastructure projects.
Your business studies will help you develop leadership, management and entrepreneurial skills that can support career progression, project management opportunities or running your own business.
Career opportunities may include:
- Registered Land Surveyor
- Mining Surveyor
- Hydrographic Surveyor
- Geospatial Specialist
- Photogrammetrist.
Course overview
This program will provide you with the practical and technical expertise needed to work in the modern surveying profession. You’ll build skills in areas such as geospatial data analysis, satellite positioning, GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry and digital construction technologies, while learning how spatial information supports infrastructure, land development and environmental decision-making.
You’ll also complete a business major in either Leadership and Management or Innovation and Entrepreneurship. You’ll develop skills needed to lead projects, manage teams or build your own business within the surveying and infrastructure industries.
The surveying component of this program combines face to face and online learning with on-campus field intensives. Intensive sessions are delivered in blocks during semester, with students attending one intensive per semester. This hybrid model gives you greater flexibility while maintaining hands-on surveying experience.
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
Apply as a domestic student
You are a domestic student if you are:
- An Australian or New Zealand citizen (including dual citizens)
- A permanent resident of Australia
- A holder of a permanent Australian visa.
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