Entry requirements

You must have completed a three-year bachelor's degree with at least a B Grade Point Average in 60 points of your 300-level major courses, or equivalent.

If English is your additional language, you are also required to meet UC's English language requirements.

Students who have been granted direct entry to 200-level undergraduate Bachelor of Science courses on the basis of high achievement in university entrance assessments, and completed 240 points including 90 at 300-level, may undertake a Bachelor of Science with Honours after two years' undergraduate study.

For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Bachelor of Science with Honours or use the admission requirements checker.

You can apply online at myUC.

See Admission and enrolment for all information on enrolling at UC.

Subjects and courses

See the Schedule for the Bachelor of Science with Honours for course requirements for each subject.

Each major option involves 90 points of coursework, and a research project.

Contact Te Kaupeka Pūtaiao | Faculty of Science for information about these subject areas:

Further study

UC offers a range of science-related master's programmes.

Students who complete the Bachelor of Science with Honours with high grades may be eligible to proceed directly to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Career opportunities

UC science graduates find work in a range of different fields and sectors. Depending on your chosen path, you can become anything from a seismologist to a soil technician, meteorologist to a marine biologist, psychologist to a policy advisor, software engineer to a science writer, forensic analyst to a food technician.