Bachelor of Science

The study of science in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Massey University provides a flexible programme that will challenge you, while giving you the satisfaction of discovery.

Leaders and influential thinkers around the world see the training, nurturing and appointment of well-qualified scientists and technologists as instrumental for positive growth and development. Studying science will put you in sync with this thinking, and set you up for an exciting and prosperous future.

BSc graduates will have a breadth of knowledge across several science disciplines and knowledge of at least one science discipline to an advanced level. They will be critical thinkers, able to communicate effectively and have good quantitative skills. They will have specialised in biological sciences, information sciences, mathematical sciences and physical sciences, or a combination of these. They will be able to solve a range of both theoretical and practical problems, have acquired the ability to work independently and with groups and, where relevant to the major discipline, be able to design experiments and analyse data appropriately. BSc graduates will possess the necessary foundations to undertake further study at the postgraduate level.

With a tradition of academic excellence, Massey University is the nearest thing New Zealand has to a national university. It has nearly 18,000 students enrolled on three main campuses, with approximately 17,000 national and worldwide distance learning (extramural) students.