Overview

This degree will provide you with the foundation research skills that will support your future career as a scientist or researcher.

Specifically, you will develop:

• communication skills
• critical thinking capability
• advanced knowledge within your chosen discipline
• knowledge of research practice and skills
• research independence and capacity for self-directed learning.

Research experience is required for most academic and research positions, and increasingly for positions in other sectors.

In consultation with your discipline honours coordinator and your supervisor, you'll be allocated a project to develop your skills to an advanced level.

Why study science at RMIT?

Research community

Work on a project in alignment with our research centres or groups, with cross-disciplinary opportunities.

Professional accreditation

On completion, you will be eligible to join a number of professional societies.

Industry collaborations

Gain the opportunity to work within our external research partnerships.

Honours projects

These projects are developed for honours students and may be a preliminary exploration, a component of a bigger research project, or part of an existing or new collaboration. All projects draw from the wide range of disciplines taught across RMIT's science programs. Many projects involve substantial cross-disciplinary work.

Discipline areas include:

• biology
• biotechnology
• chemistry
• computer science
• environmental science
• food technology
• mathematics and statistics
• physics

A list of current projects is available from the Honours Coordinator.

Research community

This undergraduate degree is closely aligned with RMIT's research community. Depending on your project, you will work with a supervisor actively involved in one of RMIT's research centres or groups, including:

• Theoretical and Quantum Physics Research Group
• Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Physics
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
• Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre
• Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry

You'll collaborate with professional technicians and facility staff in some of RMIT's impressive facilities, including the:

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Facility
• RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
• RMIT Vibrational Spectroscopy Facility
• Separation Science and Mass Spectrometry Facility
• RMIT’s X-ray facility