Postgraduate course information

UTS: Science offers both PhD and master's programs by research and thesis. There are also several master's, graduate diploma and graduate certificate programs by coursework. Inquiries regarding postgraduate coursework programs should be directed to the UTS Student Centre.

Prospective research students should discuss possible topics of research with either a potential supervisor or the head of the appropriate department in the first instance. Further information on research programs is available from UTS: Science's Research and Development Coordinator of the University Graduate School.

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Postgraduate research

UTS: Science has a well-developed research culture and is proud of its achievements and track record in teaching and researching innovative science. The research courses focus on applied and practical research to bring about benefits to industry and the community. UTS: Science has strong links with industry which supports its research objectives. The courses are highly respected for their relevance, skills and research training, and for their professional focus.

Competitive research funding is obtained from wide areas of expertise. UTS: Science wins a substantial part of the competitive grants awarded to the University. Much of UTS: Science's research focuses on the activities of its research institutes, centres and units that include the University's strategic research strengths (listed below).

This concentration of research has enabled UTS: Science to improve significantly the quality of its major equipment and instrumentations in recent years, to the benefit of its students.

The research programs may be carried out on either a full-time or part-time basis and it is possible for part-time students to undertake a portion of their research at a site external to UTS, provided appropriate supervisory arrangements can be made. Details of current research in progress can be obtained from the office of the associate dean (research and development).

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Research profile

UTS: Science's strategic research strengths are:

• Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases
• The Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster
• Institute for Nanoscale Technology
• Centre for Forensic Science.

UTS: Science's research centres, units and entities are:

• UTS College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Centre for Ecotoxicology
• Health Psychology Unit.

Other UTS: Science's research areas include:

• applied chemistry
• applied physics, including image processing and analysis
• computational number theory
• ecotoxicology
• experimental design and data analysis
• genetics
• horticulture
• immunology
• marine biology and ecology
• mathematics and statistics
• medical and biomedical science
• microbiology
• neurotoxins
• numerical integration
• psycho-oncology
• scheduling theory
• traditional Chinese medicine.

UTS: Science works collaboratively with other University's research strengths and entities, including:

• Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management
• Centre in Health Technologies
• Quantitative Finance Research Centre
• Centre for Study of Choice.

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