The range of careers available for Bachelor of Arts graduates is amazing.

Bachelor of Arts graduates are leaders, founders and entrepreneurs. Change makers. People like Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba or Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal. CEOs and former CEOs of companies like YouTube, Disney and Starbucks. Creative minds like Martin Scorcese, Amy Poehler, Emma Watson and Jon Stewart.

Bachelor of Arts graduates include former Premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian. Former PMs Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Malcom Turnbull. Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton.

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8%
Arts & Media Professionals

* National Skills Commission, 2021 Employment projections for the five years to 2026

No.1 in SA
in Humanities, Culture & Social Sciences for median graduate income, overall educational experience and skills development.

(The Good Universities Guide 2023 (undergraduate), public SA-founded universities only)

No.1 in SA
in Humanities, Culture & Social Sciences for full-time employment, median graduate income, overall educational experience, skills development, student support and teaching quality.

(The Good Universities Guide 2023 (postgraduate), public SA-founded universities only)

What job can you get with a Bachelor of Arts?

Did you know ...

A Bachelor of Arts is the most common degree among non-executive directors of Australia's 100 biggest public companies, and two thirds of Australia‘s workforce have studied humanities and social sciences.* 

And, in 2020 the British Academy reported that ‘those taking arts, humanities and social science degrees end up in jobs in eight of the 10 fastest-growing sectors of the economy more often than their STEM graduate counterparts’.**

By 2026, around 61,000 new positions will be created for Arts Professionals according to the National Skills Commission. So what does that mean for you? Job opportunities range from Business, to Media, to Government and Politics, to Marketing, Writing and more.

Check out the jobs a Bachelor of Arts can lead to

_{*The Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, **The Guardian, September 2020}

Study Options

Bachelor of Arts

Graduate Career Ready

Now is not the time to sit back and wait to see what’s coming. Now is the time to start your journey, wherever it may lead.

Flinders Bachelor of Arts produces graduates who have the ability to ask the right questions, think for themselves, explain what they think, and turn those ideas into actions.

Precisely the qualities in demand by employers across the world.

Flinders’ links to industry will give you the opportunity to access practical experience that prepares you for the workforce.

The career you end up pursuing may not even exist today, but the critical and creative thinking, communications and research skills, and the flexibility and adaptability you’ll develop during your studies at Flinders will allow you to take charge of your future, and become a true changemaker.

Where Flinders graduates work

Where do Bachelor of Arts graduates work?

Media

Renae Leith-Manos

Commentator, Media Consultant and Journalist

Read Renae's story

International Affairs

Gosia Hill

Gender, Social Protection and Education Expert

Politics

Ashley Sutherland

Completing a Master of Public Administration (Policy) at Flinders.

Read Ashley's story

Education

Dr Ryan Manhire

Academic in Europe

Read Ryan's story

Film

Helen Leake AM

Movie Producer

Read Helen's story

Disaster Relief

Louisa Minney

Director

Read Louisa's story

Film

James Currie

Filmmaker and winner of the Australian Screen Sound Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award

Media

Peter Goers OAM

Commentator, actor, director, critic, radio host

Politics

Brooke Thomas

Chief of Staff

Read Brooke's story

History

Greg Mackie OAM

CEO

Performance

Noni Hazelhurst

Actress

Bachelor of Arts (Professional Futures)

With a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Futures), you'll be provided with the fundamental knowledge and workplace skills development to pursue the career of your choice. This specialisation will help you to identify your professional purpose and identity, giving you skills to manage your future career.

The Bachelor of Arts (Professional Futures) is delivered in partnership with the Institute of Managers and Leaders (IML), and students receive a free membership to the IML.

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Why study a Bachelor of Arts?

Flexible degree

A Bachelor of Arts is a flexible degree that encompasses the best of humanities, arts and social sciences.
Choose from a range of majors and minors to design your dream degree.
Flexibility to take a major and minor, double major or extended major.
Combine science with traditional arts majors in our science and arts degrees

Study what you’re passionate about

A Bachelor of Arts is a flexible and varied way to explore your passions. Women's and gender studies combined with politics and Indonesian? Sure. Drama combined with visual arts and psychology. Why not? Study what you’re passionate about, and become a leader in that field.

Transferrable skills are in demand

According to the World Economic Forum* the top three skills for jobs in 2025 will be:

Social intelligence and new media literacy
Critical thinking
Lifelong learning
Adaptability

The Flinders Bachelor of Arts has been developed to equip you with these core employability skills, to prepare you for jobs of the future… jobs we don’t even know will exist yet.

*5 things we know about the jobs of the future, World Economic Forum, 2020

Face tomorrow’s challenges head on

Flinders’ unique stream of career-ready topics will allow you to explore real-world issues, happening right now. A Bachelor of Arts degree will prepare you for a career in almost any field, and Flinders Bachelor of Arts has a richly diverse suite of subject areas, as well as a uniquely-focused set of core topics that will help you prepare for the challenging social transformations that the world is going through right now.
Global challenge topics are designed to challenge and broaden your thinking about real-world issues, and encourage you to explore solutions to some of the biggest problems.
Employability stream topics from first to third year are designed to make you career-ready long before you graduate.

Be a change maker

Those who look to the future. Who understand that to thrive in tomorrow’s workplace, you must learn to be flexible, to navigate the digital age, to think both critically and creatively, and to develop the skills and knowledge to adapt and take advantage of new opportunities. That’s what we teach you. To think. To analyse. To be adaptable. To communicate. To be creative. To develop world-changing, future-proof skills in a world that’s changing fast. And that’s just the beginning.

Flinders’ Bachelor of Arts includes a suite of topics to prepare you for a wide range of career opportunities.

Join a legacy of excellence

Academy and Emmy-winning director, writer, producer Scott Hicks is a Flinders BA graduate.
Logie and AFI-winning writer, producer, director Noni Hazlehurst is a Flinders BA graduate.

Take your study global with a semester exchange

Living and studying overseas presents you with the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the local culture while continuing your tertiary study at one of Flinders University’s 70+ overseas partner universities. Why wait until you graduate to see the world? Let our program offer you the educational adventure of a lifetime.

Use the Bachelor of Arts as a pathway degree

A Bachelor of Arts is the perfect foundation to begin your university journey. You could use your BA as a pathway into multiple degrees, including teaching, creative industries, languages, business, and more.

Design your dream degree

A Bachelor of Arts will give you the skills you need to respond to social, cultural and economic issues in a rapidly evolving workplace. An Arts degree allows you to connect diverse knowledge in unique ways and develop specialised abilities to help you stand out from the pack. By picking and choosing from a range of disciplines, you can unlock more career options and pursue your interests.

Majors

Geography and Environmental Studies

History

Indigenous and Australian Studies

Indonesian

Innovation and Enterprise

International Relations

Italian

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Women's and Gender Studies

Get inspired

A week in the life of a Bachelor of Arts student

Flinders student Zofia shows us what a typical week in the life of a Bachelor of Arts student looks like.

Bachelor of Arts at Flinders with Dr Romain Fathi

Learn about the degree with senior lecturer Dr Romain Fathi.

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A passion for social justice

With a Bachelor of Arts under her wing, Ashley Sutherland’s passion for listening to people and telling their stories has led her to represent their issues to the wider community.