Environmental Science (Energy Transition) major

50 points

Level 3: compulsory

• EVSC30002 Problem Solving in Environmental Science
• EVSC30003 Environmental Risk Assessment
• EVSC30009 Energy Pathways to Net-Zero

Level 3: pick 1

• BIOL30011 Applied Marine Biology
• CHEN30016 Momentum, Mass and Heat Transfer
• ENST30003 Green Infrastructure Technologies
• ERTH30002 Applied Geoscience
• GEOG30019 Sustainable Development
• PHYC30011 Sub-atomic Physics

Level 1 and 2: take these first

• CHEN20010 Material and Energy Balances
• EVSC20004 Blue Planet - Intro to Marine Biology
• PHYC20012 Quantum and Thermal Physics
• PHYC20013 Laboratory and Computational Physics 2
• PHYC20015 Special Relativity and Electromagnetism

Where it can lead

What the Handbook says Environmental Science (Energy Transition) leads to, with official job information from the Australian Government's Your Career site.

Related fields

Matched by subject area: the Handbook page doesn't name these jobs.

• Environmental Consultant

Industries

environmental assessment, consulting, management

Further study

• After the Bachelor of Science: Honours (depending on the major; see BH-SCI), graduate professional entry degrees (some with research training), and research higher degrees (masters/doctoral) after research training in Honours, a Postgraduate Diploma or a Masters.

From the Handbook · checked 2026-10-23

From the 2026 University of Melbourne Handbook. Check it before you enrol.