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Join one of the world's fastest growing professions with a Biotechnology degree

Learn how to apply the techniques and scientific principles of microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology, across industries including chemical engineering, medicine, agriculture and the environment.

Explore the chemical and molecular processes involved in genetic engineering, fermentation and separation technology and learn how to apply them to the commercial sector.

Develop your hands-on experience on this practically-based course

As one of the first of its kind in Australia, our biotechnology course has had time to develop into one of the countries strongest practically-balanced degree. This means much of your learning and experience will be gained through hands-on, laboratory-based class-work and fieldwork.

This will help you discover for yourself how biotechnology can be applied across industry and processes such as:

• brewing, viticulture or cheese-making,
• the production of antibiotics and enzymes,
• for creating diagnostic medical kits and antibodies,
• bio-waste energy production, and
• improving plant and animal productivity.

Access research opportunities at our on-campus biotechnology research centre

Our South Street campus also hosts the Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre (SABC), one of the largest and most research-active Centres for agricultural biotechnology in Australia.

The Centre is currently researching the use of genetic engineering for increasing productivity and disease resistance in crops as well as conducting extensive research into animal health. Many of these research projects are also available as Honours projects.

Choose to follow our 3-year bachelor degree course or 4-year Honours by research. Additionally, if you complete the three-year double major in Biotechnology and Chemistry you will be eligible for membership of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).