Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science
Overview
Gain practical business skills and strong agribusiness insight while pursuing your interests in wildlife science, placing you in high demand by employers, with this dual degree.
This 4-year dual degree will deepen your scientific knowledge of wild and captive animal management while developing your commercial and business acumen through one of Australia’s leading agribusiness programs.
The program will introduce you to the commercial world behind agriculture, and the complex and rapidly changing distribution channels linking producers with consumers.
You'll learn about marketing, finance and managing people and technologies in agriculture and animal-specific settings. You’ll graduate with commercial awareness, an international outlook and technical industry insight.
Under the wildlife science program, you'll focus on whole animal biology and the management of wild animals, including their ecology and conservation, biodiversity and issues associated with human-wildlife interactions.
You'll learn how to implement and evaluate management programs for captive and free-ranging wildlife. You’ll be taught by experts involved in the conservation and management of wildlife and exotic animals, and access UQ’s specialist animal research and veterinary facilities.
When you graduate, you'll be ready to enter the workforce in innovative management positions where your high-level technical skills in animal health and welfare, along with your business knowledge, will be highly sought-after by employers.
Program highlights
- Join the leader in the field, equipped with some of the best specialist animal research and veterinary facilities in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Learn from experts about the commercial world behind agriculture and develop in-demand business skills.
- Experience city and rural living at two UQ campuses. You’ll take business courses in the award-winning UQ Business School at Brisbane's St Lucia campus and wildlife science courses at UQ's specialist rural Gatton campus.
- Participate in 120 hours of industry placements in locations such as zoos, welfare organisations and wildlife parks, or spend nearly a month overseas as part of your elective courses.
How you'll learn
Your learning experiences are designed to best suit the learning outcomes of the courses you choose.
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Work placements
- Overseas study
- Research experience
- Laboratory work
- Fieldwork
- Seminars
- Workshops
What you'll study
At UQ, degrees are called 'programs' and subjects are called 'courses'.
Career possibilities
Our programs prepare you for your first job and beyond. Here are some of the careers you could be on your way to:
- Agribusiness analyst
- Export trader
- Farm management consultant
- Commercial manager, grain and commodities
- Wildlife scientist
- Ecotourism guide
- Conservation officer
- Land manager
- Ranger
- Environmental assessment officer
Graduate salary
Agriculture & environmental studies (undergraduate)
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Next steps after graduation
Your scientific knowledge of animal biology, and wildlife-trapping, identification and animal-handling skills will complement your strong agribusiness insight to place you in high demand by employers.
You’ll graduate ready to enter the workforce in innovative management positions and to make a major contribution to the wildlife, game and vertebrate management industries. Your high-level technical skills in animal health and welfare, along with your business knowledge, will be highly sought after by employers.
Expect to find employment in industries such as:
- agribusiness management
- agribusiness research
- government
- export marketing and management
- policy development and analysis
- ecotourism
- wildlife management
- wildlife conservation.
Many students also choose to continue onto further studies to pursue a career in research.
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Entry requirements
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Minimum entry score
Check the minimum entry scores for the individual programs. You must meet the higher score.
Entry score threshold
| ATAR / Rank | IB |
|---|---|
| 73 | 25.75 |
These are the lowest adjusted scores we made an offer to in Semester 1, 2023. Entry scores are based on the most recent Semester 1 intake and are updated in April each year. Meeting the entry score threshold doesn't guarantee admission.
English language requirements
IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL IBT - Overall 87, listening 19, reading 19, writing 21 and speaking 19.
TOEFL PB - Overall 570, listening 54, reading 54, writing 59/5.
Pearsons - Overall Score of 64 and 60 in all sub bands.
BE - A minimum overall grade of 4 plus a minimum grade of C in all macro skills.
CES - Overall 176 and 169 in all sub bands.
OET is not accepted.
There are other ways to meet the English language requirements. For some programs, additional conditions apply.
Student visas
International students who are accepted into full-time study in the Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science are eligible to apply for an Australian student visa (subclass 500).
There are a number of requirements you must satisfy before a visa is granted, including the genuine temporary entrant (GTE) requirement.
Entry score range
This table shows the range of entry scores for recent secondary students offered a place in the B Agribusiness/BWildlifeSc for Semester 1, 2023
| Without adjustments | With adjustments | |
|---|---|---|
| Highest | 94.65 | 94.65 |
| Median | 81.75 | 81.75 |
| Lowest | 77.45 | 78.8 |
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Additional application information
Additional application information
Fees and Scholarships
Indicative annual fee
Approximate yearly cost of tuition (16 units). Your fees will vary according to your selected courses and study load. Fees are reviewed each year and may increase.
$6,750
2023
$6,750
2023
Approximate yearly cost of tuition (16 units). Your fees will vary according to your selected courses and study load. Fees are reviewed each year and may increase.
AUD $45,568
2023
AUD $45,568
2023
Government assistance
Financial aid
As an international student, you might be eligible for financial aid – either from your home country, or from the Australian Government.
HECS-HELP
Domestic places in the Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science are Commonwealth Supported. This means the cost of your education is shared between you and the Australian Government.
Instead of tuition fees, Commonwealth Supported students pay what are called student contribution amounts.
HECS-HELP is an Australian Government loan scheme to assist eligible students with the cost of their student contribution amounts.
Centrelink support
The Australian Government offers a number of income-support payments to eligible Australian university students.
Scholarships
You may be eligible for more than 100 scholarships, including:
How to apply
Applying online
If your senior schooling is from outside Australia, you can submit your application to UQ. Or, if you prefer, you can use an approved UQ agent in your country.
The program code for the Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science is 2392.
Find out more about applying for undergraduate study
If your senior schooling is from Australia
Submit your application to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre if you're an international student who is currently studying:
- Australian Year 12 (in Australia or another country), or
- the International Baccalaureate in Australia.
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science is 766501.
Applying through QTAC
All domestic applications should be submitted to the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC).
The QTAC code for the Bachelors of Agribusiness / Wildlife Science is 766501.
Important dates
If you’re studying Year 12 in Australia, go to the QTAC website to check the closing date for this program.
If you’re applying to UQ, the closing date for this program is:
- To commence study in semester 1 - November 30 of the previous year.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
Important dates
To check the closing date for this program, go to the QTAC website.
To learn more about UQ dates, including semester start dates, view the Academic Calendar.
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Pathway options
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If you're not offered a place in your first-choice program – or if you don't meet the entry requirements – you still have a number of options.
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