Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - (Dual degree)

at University of New South Wales - Kensington Campus Australia

UNSW’s Business School’s Master of Commerce Extension (MCom (Ext)) is a postgraduate coursework degree that can be completed in two-years full-time. Designed in consultation with industry, this degree prepares you with a depth of knowledge, a breadth of experience, and the hands-on experience needed to succeed across diverse careers in business.  

With 14 specialisations to choose from, the MCom (Ext) allows you to study one or two areas of business. You’ll then broaden your knowledge through electives that prepare you for future careers, such as analytics or FinTech.

You’ll be guided by highly reputable academics and professionals, as you explore essential concepts and gain practical experience to enhance your learning. This degree is career-focused from day one. Whatever you specialise in, you’ll connect with industry, learn with real-world tools and technology, and have access to work-experience, career development, and mentoring opportunities.

Specialisations

• Accounting
• Business Analytics
• Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy
• Digital Transformation
• Economics and Finance 
• Finance
• Financial Technology (FinTech)
• Global Sustainability and Social Impact
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Marketing
• Marketing Analytics
• Risk Management
• Strategy and Innovation

The Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) is a four-year degree when studied full time, with an integrated honours component.

Becoming a social worker is a genuinely transformative experience. Not only will you be able to significantly change and enhance others’ lives, but you’ll also be actively shaping happier, healthier relationships and communities.

This bachelor’s degree focuses on the very real and very important outcomes of social work – giving you the practical skills to make a difference, with direct guidance from industry professionals and current social workers. You’ll gain experience across diverse human services such as mental health, social work counselling, community work, sociology, psychology, and working with Indigenous communities.

Key features
A solid foundation
In your first year of study, you’ll begin building the stability to adapt within a diverse field that is constantly changing. Discover new interests and contexts while developing the foundations of your future social work practice. You’ll have guidance throughout the program from social workers experienced in teaching, practice, research, and policy.

Field education
Work experience is essential to learning and experiencing the world beyond the classroom. This degree includes two work placements to develop your insights, confidence, and essential practical skills. You’ll gain distinct experience working in metropolitan and rural Australia or in one of our partnering countries overseas.

Fuel your passion
Dive deeper into the area where you’re driven to have the most impact. You’ll be able to focus your efforts and interpersonal skills in fields such as community health, child welfare, or clinical social work. You’ll also have opportunities to gain expertise in various areas of practice and in research fields such as social work theory and policy studies.

Research for your future
Social work careers evolve with society’s changing needs. With advanced research and analysis skills, your professional development can adapt to future changes with confidence. In your final year, you’ll produce a thesis or advanced professional portfolio based on your independent research.

Accreditation
Empower yourself with an education that meets formal accreditation standards. Upon graduation, you’ll meet the benchmarks set by the Australian Association of Social Workers (the professional body for social workers) and be eligible for their membership.

The UNSW Master of Engineering Science (Nuclear Engineering) is designed for students who want to understand nuclear concepts that form the foundation of our universe. Through this degree you’ll develop the skills to apply these concepts to a variety of industries today and the technologies of the future. This postgraduate degree teaches you the underpinning theory behind nuclear engineering techniques, technologies and processes.

This degree also provides a stream that allows graduates from traditional engineering disciplines to pursue a career in high-tech industries including nuclear science, nuclear medicine, mining and resources, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, space exploration and defence. You’ll learn from national and international experts in the sector, including nuclear researchers from UNSW Sydney and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, plus shared courses with the UNSW-ASU-King’s College PLuS Alliance.

The two-year postgraduate degree, taught by the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, features complex, open-ended, enquiry-based projects. You’ll develop knowledge and skills in topics such as:

• Societal, economic and environmental considerations
• Nuclear reactor theory
• Nuclear engineering design
• Nuclear materials
• Systems engineering
• The uranium and thorium fuel cycles
• Life cycle management
• Nuclear safety
• Nuclear security and safeguards
• Societal, economic and environmental considerations

Any design you could dream of can be brought to reality by a mechanical engineer. Mechanical engineers apply scientific and engineering knowledge to develop, manufacture and operate machines and tools, which can then be used to develop things.

This degree will give you the skills and knowledge required to design and manage the construction, operation and maintenance of machines used in many industries.

UNSW’s Master of Commerce (MCom) is a 1.7 year full-time postgraduate coursework degree. Designed in consultation with industry, this world-class business degree prepares you with the experience and knowledge you need to succeed in the career you want. This degree is career-focused from day one. Whatever you specialise in, you’ll connect with industry, learn with real-world tools and technology, and have access to work-experience, career development, and mentoring opportunities.

Economics is a field that changes constantly and adapts to the modern world, while holding on to scientific objectivity. It offers techniques and an analytical basis for understanding and evaluating incentives and decision making by individuals, businesses and governments.  A primary goal of economics is to determine how to improve efficiency and living standards.

 Economics Specialisation

Studying economics will equip you with the analytical tools and critical thinking skills to understand and make an impact on some of our greatest global challenges. UNSW offers diverse economics specialisations and courses across a number of different degrees, allowing you to tailor your expertise to the areas that interest you. These include:  

• Economic Policy and Society
  Understand economic theory and analysis. Learn how it is applied in the real-world through business, government and policy.  
• Macroeconomics and Financial Markets
  Macroeconomics is the study of how governments manage economies to improve lives and create growth. Financial economics explores financial markets and risk management. Learn how these influential forces interact.
• Data Analytics and Econometrics
  Learn economic methods for organising, modelling, and analysing large and complex data.  
• Business Economics
  Use economic theory and quantitative methods to understand and analyse the financial, organisational and market-related issues faced by businesses.
• Behavioural Economics
  Apply insights about human decision-making and individual choices to business and policy scenarios.
• Economics and Finance  
  Study how individuals, firms, financial institutions and government interact in financial markets. Analyse economic decision making in the context of real-world events through this Master of Commerce specialisation.
• Applied Economics
  Prepare to become a professional economist. Gain advanced knowledge and practical skills in economics, as well as research and communications skills through the Master of Applied Economics. 

The Master of Financial Analysis is a specialist qualification that builds on your prior degree and substantial studies in accounting and/or finance. It will extend your understanding and abilities in financial analysis, giving you a solid grounding in high-level skills for the development of a wide range of careers, such as investment analysis, funds management, chief financial officer role or almost any career involving business analysis. It draws on cutting-edge teaching and research from UNSW Business School which is ranked 1st in Australia and top 20 worldwide for Accounting & Finance*.

You will develop your strategy skills, risk analysis and management, valuation, and project development/management. A large range of courses gives you the flexibility to tailor your study to meet your individual professional development needs.

If you're interested in both legal and economic analysis, the Bachelor of Economics/Law provides you the opportunity to examine the formation, process, structure and economic impact of law, policy and legal institutions.

You'll develop a critical understanding of legal frameworks, processes and systems, while also studying economic issues such as international trade, inflation, government policy and competition, strategic behaviour and unemployment. By gaining in-depth knowledge in both areas, you’ll be prepared for a career in either economic or legal practice.

Our graduates have excellent analytical skills, a capacity for scholarly research, effective oral and written communication skills, and a commitment to personal and professional development, ethical practice and social responsibility.

As a Biomedical Engineer, you’ll help create new technologies that improve disease diagnosis, find new and better ways of patient monitoring, revolutionise medical treatment and improve the quality of life for people with life-threatening or debilitating diseases and conditions.

You’ll gain the expertise to enact change in influential areas of human health, applying engineering principles to develop technologies and solutions in a range of healthcare-related fields that improve human lives, including:

• Medical devices
• Implantable bionics
• Drug-delivery system
• Medical imaging and radiotherapy
• Orthopaedic devices
• Robotic surgery
• Cell and tissue engineering
• Physical rehabilitation

This unique field brings together many engineering disciplines, including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering and chemical engineering.

Designed for students with a medical, biological science, physical science or engineering background this degree consolidates and specialises your knowledge in biomedical engineering.

The Master of Public Health and Master of Infectious Diseases Intelligence is a double degree providing essential knowledge and skills for those pursuing a career in public health with a focus on infectious diseases epidemiology and control. This program enables you to better understand infectious diseases in the era of new and emerging disease threats. You'll also learn sophisticated management approaches for the identification, assessment, prevention and control of infectious diseases.

The Master of Public Health is widely regarded as essential for a career in population health, including health promotion, primary health care, policy formulation, research and management of health programs. When combined with the Masters of Infectious Disease Intelligence, you'll acquire a deep understanding of multidisciplinary knowledge including infectious diseases intelligence, policy design, implementation and evaluation.

The Master of Health Leadership and Management (Extension) provides you with advanced disciplinary knowledge and capacities for tackling challenging senior managerial roles in health services in Australia or internationally. The degree is designed to develop judgement-ready, critically reflexive practitioners who can improve health service systems and outcomes.

You will gain a sophisticated understanding across the complex body of multidisciplinary knowledge of health management, including financial and economic management, quality and safety improvement programs, leadership and human resource management, strategic planning and change management, and policy and health program design, implementation and evaluation. Many of our graduates occupy key positions in health services and universities in Australia and across the globe.