Health Sciences:
Start a healthy career

• Our Health Sciences degree has true flexibility to suit your interests and passions. Choose from a variety of specialisations, including ageing, health management, health promotion, innovation, digital health, physiology and neuroscience, psychology, or therapy studies.
• Or you can build your own Health Sciences degree by combining core skills topics with a selection of courses from any field within the entire University.

• Flinders are leaders in health and care and have strong partnerships with the health industry.
• You will have the opportunity to undertake a work placement in your third year of study, preparing you for practice in the real world in venues across metropolitan or regional SA.
  Placement opportunities include laboratories, community organisations, government departments or not-for-profit groups. These experiences ensure you’re career-ready and allow you to build practical skills and develop connections with potential future colleagues.

• You will gain an excellent grounding in all aspects of the health sector and develop a transferable skill set that can be applied in any health career setting you choose.
• Flinders students are highly skilled in problem solving. Our graduates enter the workforce with confidence, ready to tackle all challenges a career in the health sector may bring.

• Many of our teaching staff are also active researchers and we ensure our programs always have the latest evidence-based learning outcomes.

• We take a personal approach to learning and the relationships we have with our students and graduates are highly supportive and long-lasting.
• Many of our teaching staff are also experienced health professionals with rich and diverse backgrounds in health.

Student can choose from a range of specialisations such as ageing, health management*, health promotion*, innovation, digital health, physiology and neuroscience*, psychology* or therapy studies. *requires the choice of a specific topic in the first year.

Health Care and Social Assistance is Australia’s largest industry and is projected to have strong employment growth through to November 2026 (National Skills Commission 2022).  

From treating patients in health clinics, providing preventative self-care, influencing health care policy in government agencies or undertaking life-changing research, the opportunities are limitless.

You will graduate either with a Health Sciences degree and a specialised area of knowledge, or you will graduate with a broad Health Sciences degree. This depends on whether you choose to pursue a specialisation or whether you build your own degree.  

You can undertake either a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Therapy Studies) or a Bachelor of Exercise Science (with an allied health specialisation) and on completion be eligible for entry into the Master of Physiotherapy.

You can undertake a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Therapy Studies) and on completion, be eligible for entry into the Master of Occupational Therapy.

Please note, completion of these alternate degrees does not guarantee entry into the double degree or Masters programs and entry is competitive based on grade point average (GPA).

The current pandemic situation (COVID-19) will affect many aspects of your study, from topic availability on campus to how your classes are delivered. For detailed information about the impact of COVID-19 on your study please refer to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page.

• Applications are completed via SATAC
• Visit: satac.edu.au

There is a range of alternative ways to gain entry to most undergraduate courses besides meeting the minimum required ATAR. Details of other pathways can be found at flinders.edu.au/study/pathways

These include:

• Doing the uniTEST, an aptitude test designed to assess the generic reasoning and thinking skills you need to be successful in university-level studies. As a year 12 student, you can use uniTEST results in combination with your ATAR to increase your opportunity to gain entry into any of our courses, with the exception of the Bachelor of Clinical Science/Doctor of Medicine.
• You can apply through SATAC to sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT), held in June.
• You can also consider applying for courses with lower requirements, as many courses will allow you to transfer once you have completed a specified amount of the course. This is done through Flinderslink. If you accept an offer at another university and perform well, you can use your grade point average (GPA) to transfer to Flinders University. You may even be eligible for credit.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants can gain admission to Flinders University through the Indigenous Admissions Scheme flinders.edu.au/study/pathways/indigenous-admissions-scheme