Modern facilities and technology

At Deakin, we incorporate the very latest technology - in both design and construction - to support you on your path to becoming a built environment professional.

Hands-on learning

Deakin's Architecture and Built Environment courses incorporate technology, philosophy and electronic media and are hands-on from the beginning, allowing you to turn imaginative ideas into solid objects.

Professional accreditation

Architecture and the built environment can provide students with professionally accredited qualifications. This high level of accreditation translates into excellent job and career opportunities for Deakin graduates.

Broaden your horizons with International Studies

International Studies offers you a wide variety of core disciplines. Such disciplines can be studied at undergraduate level within the Bachelor of Arts and for those with a particular interest in internationalisation, by completing the Bachelor of International Studies or the associated double degrees.

Increase your opportunities

Language skills in Arabic, Chinese and Indonesian are increasingly important in diplomacy, defence, security, commerce and trade-related fields; as well as for developing intercultural understanding and a global outlook.

Open doors with a language

The unique and broad mix of disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts and Education will make your studies at Deakin intellectually stimulating and relevant to the future workforce. Enhance your current degree with a Diploma of Language. Regardless of which degree you are studying, the added benefit of a language qualification will open doors to exciting new opportunities and experiences.

A degree for well rounded minds

Our new Bachelor of Management is a unique degree that goes beyond an academic qualification. You will develop personally through engaging with people, the community and businesses and you will graduate as a global citizen.

A new look information systems

Our new suite of Information Systems courses allow you to add value to your degree. If you're creative, tech savvy and enjoy working with people, apply your skills in IS to health, science or business and boost your career opportunities.

International opportunities

Gain valuable experience through study abroad, study tours and work integrated learning. Study at the only Australian university with an internationally EPAS accredited Bachelor of Commerce. 


Media - a growth industry

Communication is the growth industry of the modern age. Deakin communication and media courses offer the flexibility to develop the key skills and knowledge across the professional areas needed for successful careers in this rapidly changing global industry.

Variety of disciplines

Within the Communication and Media area, the School offers; Journalism, Literary Studies, Public Relations, Communication and Media and Professional and Creative Writing.

Real world skills

Our staff were recently recognised for authentic teaching strategies that engage and prepare students to transition with confidence from our public relations classroom to the professional workplace.

Early Childhood Education

The Bachelor of Early Childhood Education is now available to Year 12 applicants, and includes a primary teaching component, allowing students to teach children up to age 8 years.

Meeting worldly standards

Our courses have been adapted to meet new national and international education standards. With state of the art classrooms and global opportunities, our teaching graduates are well-equipped to teach in the 21st century.

Flexibility and fast-track options

Our Education courses are offered in differing modes, with most being the industry standard 4 year qualification. Some courses can be fast-tracked by using Deakin's three trimester system, and others offered intensively.

First-class facilities

As a Deakin engineering student you will have access to recently refurbished, fully-equipped laboratories and cutting-edge computer-aided software that is used in modern industrial workplaces.

Professional accreditation

Deakin's Bachelor of Engineering is continuously being accredited by Engineers Australia to ensure your qualifications are recognised internationally.

Research and teaching excellence

Learn from world-standard researchers. Engineering at Deakin is different as it is research led, rather than simply research informed. Deakin is a significant leader in the number of engineering focused research areas, most notably manufacturing and materials.

Hands-on learning

Deakin's environment courses have a strong focus on fieldwork. You will benefit from the experience that only field trips can provide and have the opportunity to gain real field based and job ready skills.

First-class facilities

Facilities that support our environment programs include a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) lab, wildlife tracking technology, aquaculture facilities, infrared motion sensing wildlife cameras, and a NATA-accredited water quality laboratory and high-tech research labs.

Industry learning

Deakin's environment courses include a discipline-specific industry placement which puts you in touch with industry through involvement with local councils, community groups and businesses dealing with environmental issues like pollution control, recycling, ecotourism, biodiversity conservation and management.

Tailor your degree to your career

Deakin's health courses allow you to choose subjects from any area of the University. You can select a combination that suits your interests and tailor your degree towards your desired career.

Gain practical experience

Practical experience is an integral part of many Deakin health courses. Under the supervision of qualified professionals you will gain hands-on experience in a range of settings, preparing you for employment in the real world.

Highly regarded graduates

We employ qualified and enthusiastic staff with broad international links and experience. Their specialist skills inform the teaching programs to ensure our graduates are highly regarded and sought-after by employers.

State-of-the-art facilities

You will have access to fully-equipped computing laboratories and specialised computing facilities right from the beginning of your course.

Professional accreditation

Deakin's IT degrees are accredited by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), providing international recognition and allowing graduates to be eligible for membership of the ACS.

Industry learning

You will have the opportunity to apply to undertake a discipline-specific industry placement for credit towards your degree. Some placements also come with an industry-funded scholarship.

Get practical about practising law

We believe the best way to learn is through real world experience and practical learning. Our unique practical units are a valuable component of our law degree.

Professional accreditation

Deakin's Bachelor of Laws satisfies the academic requirements for admission to practise law as a barrister or solicitor in the state of Victoria.

Gain worldly experience

Experience overseas study, and gain a worldly perspective. We offer student exchange, study tours, work-integrated learning and a Global Citizenship Program, to help you become a more competitive graduate.

Practical experience commencing in Trimester 1

Our nursing courses include a strong clinical learning program. Commencing in your first trimester of study, your clinical experience is organised by Deakin and contributes approximately 50% of your learning opportunities.

Highly sought-after graduates

Our courses are designed in consultation with our partner hospitals, clinics and industry, ensuring our graduates are highly sought after by employers for their nursing knowledge, communications skills, professionalism, enthusiasm and problem-solving capabilities.

Purpose-built learning facilities

The Clinical Simulation Centre at Deakin University consists of purpose-built simulated clinical environments. There is a centre on each campus and each is well resourced with state-of-the-art equipment to assist your clinical learning and transition towards independent nursing and midwifery practice.

Nutrition without VCE chemistry

VCE chemistry is not a prerequisite for our Bachelor of Food and Nutrition. That's great news if you're interest in a career in nutrition but didn't study chemistry at school.

Hands on practical experience

Hands on industry experience is an elective option within the final year of our Bachelor of Food and Nutrition and provides a great way to consolidate your knowledge and skills before joining the workforce.

Diverse career opportunities

Our Bachelor of Food and Nutrition is a comprehensive course that prepares you for employment in a range of occupations in private, business or community settings. It also provides a pathway to our Master of Dietetics.

Fast-tracked career entry

The program is offered as two sequential degrees:

• Bachelor of Vision Science
• Master of Optometry


Purpose-built facilities

As a Deakin optometry student you will have the opportunity to use cutting-edge teaching facilities within the brand new, purpose-built Regional Community Health Hub (REACH). This $53 million project was opened in late 2012.

Meeting workforce demands

Optometry is a fast-growing profession, not only in Australia but also internationally due to the increasing role optometrists play in eye care, primary and tertiary medical care, the optical industry and research.

World class facilities

We are the only Australian University where you can learn motion capture with the same equipment as that used by award winning Hollywood film directors. See Deakin Motion.lab.

World class researchers

Our researchers are internationally renowned and many hold key roles with national and international associations and on editorial boards of journals.

Real world skills

We aim to give students an intellectually exciting education, anchored in core disciplines, and developing the professional and vocational skills that are essential in the workplace of the 21st century.

Fast-track your degree

Take advantage of Deakin's trimester system and the psychology subjects offered in Trimester 3 and you could fast-track your career entry by completing a three-year psychology degree in just two years of full-time study.

Flexible study options

Undergraduate psychology is more flexible than ever before. You can study on-campus in Burwood, Geelong and Warrnambool; off-campus via the cloud; or with the support of the Deakin Learning Hub in Dandenong.

Vast employment opportunities

Psychology is one of the most diverse fields of employment. As a registered psychologist you may work in mental health, human services, public health, criminal justice, organisational development, and child development to name a few.

First-class facilities

Learn in a modern teaching environment and gain hands-on experience by participating in laboratory, field and project work.

Industry learning

As a Deakin science student you'll gain experience through innovative practical programs, including professional practice units, designed to develop the skills employers highly value and prepare you for real-life settings.

Research and teaching excellence

Our teaching and research staff are experts in their fields, with broad international links and experiences, much of which is conducted in partnership with government departments, industry and leading international scientists.

Professional accreditation - Exercise and Sport Science

Deakin's Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science is the first and only nationally accredited undergraduate exercise and sport science program in Victoria, and a great pathway to further studies in clinical exercise physiology.

Career opportunities

Possible career areas vary from traditional sport, exercise and coaching occupations to sports administration, management and development roles. Growth areas include sports media, IT, event management and marketing as well as sport science and equipment design.

Sport courses at Deakin

Turn your passion for sport into a lucrative career with the industry's most respected degrees. Get everything you love about sport with a Bachelor of Business (Sport Management), Bachelor of Sport Development, Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science or combine both and study the Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science/Bachelor of Business (Sport Management) from Deakin University.