Our Careers and Employability Office, dedicated to business students, offers a range of opportunities to explore your career options, plan your career, develop your skills, and network with recruiters and employers.

Our Careers and Employability Office offers a specialised career service to students across all of our degree programs. We are committed to helping you achieve your career aspirations and equipping you with the skills to thrive in your career.

Our career services will help you:

plan your career
develop your career decision making skills
tailor your resume and job applications
engage in experiential recruitment activities such as mock interviews and assessment centres
connect with top graduate recruiters and corporate partners through our programs.
We also offer the award-winning free Job Smart program, which enables international students to gain the skills and professional experience to gain employment when they graduate.

Business School students who engage early with career exploration, professional skill development and industry connections are best equipped to make their mark in today's complex and changing professional world.

Getting career ready with the Careers and Employability Office
Students explain how the Careers and Employability Office can help you get career ready throughout your studies.

Start planning your career now
We recommend that you begin your career-planning journey before you enrol and start your degree. Visit the below resources to discover your career options and help you choose the right subjects. 

Graduate Careers Australia provide detailed careers information and profiles across most areas including accounting, consultancy, government, human resources, IT, marketing, and international relations.
MyFuture assists school leavers with exploring career opportunities and different industries. Visit MyFuture to help you narrow down which majors you wish to study at the Business School.
Visit the Careers and Employabilty Office once you enrol. We’re located in the Careers and Student Experience Lounge, Basement Level, Abercrombie Building.

Career Pathways
Throughout this course you will develop knowledge of:

food
nutrients
biochemistry
physiology
statistics
epidemiology
food service
management and the pathophysiology of chronic diseases.
You will also develop skills of:
critical thinking
problem solving
hypothesis testing
experimental design
planning and organisation
communication
counselling
computing.
Our graduates can be found in almost all areas of dietetic and nutrition practice, for example in large and small hospitals, in private practice, in community health, in NGOs such as Cancer Council, in government positions like Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), working for the professional body DAA, in the food industry, in food service management and in academia and research.

• 2 year Post Study Work Visa Opportunity

Current entry requirements:
Admission to the degree requires a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney, or equivalent qualification, with at least an average result of Credit. The applicant must also have successfully completed the following prerequisite units of study within the last 10 years:

a) 12 credit points of junior chemistry, or equivalent; and
b) 12 credit points of junior biology, or equivalent; and
c) 12 credit points of intermediate or senior Biochemistry and/or Molecular Biology, or equivalent; and
d) 12 credit points of intermediate or senior Human Physiology, or equivalent; and
e) 6 credit points of intermediate or senior Nutrition Science, or equivalent; and
f) 6 credit points of intermediate or senior Food Science, or equivalent.
Entry from 2021 requirements:
Admission to the degree requires a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney, or equivalent qualification, with at least an average result of Credit. The applicant must also have successfully completed the following prerequisite units of study within the last 10 years:

a) 12 credit points of junior chemistry, or equivalent; and
b) 12 credit points of junior human biology, or equivalent; and
c) 12 credit points of intermediate or senior Biochemistry and/or Molecular Biology, or equivalent; and
d) 12 credit points of intermediate or senior Human Physiology, or equivalent; and
e) 6 credit points of intermediate or senior Nutrition Science, or equivalent; and
f) 6 credit points of intermediate or senior Food Science, or equivalent.
Junior refers to 1000-level units of study.
Intermediate refers to 2000-level units of study.
Senior refers to 3000-level units of study. 

A credit average means a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 65.    

These are the minimum admission requirements for this course. As entry into this course is very competitive, applicants who meet the minimum admission requirements are then ranked according to academic merit. Course numbers are limited and offers will be made on the basis of rank, subject to a strict enrolment quota. 

To enable assessment of whether prerequisites are met, any applicant with international qualifications (e.g. bachelor degree completed at an overseas University) must submit unit of study outlines for all prerequisite units of study as listed above. 

Top-ranked applicants will be made early rolling offers. For all other applicants, the first offer round occurs in late November prior to the year of commencement. The second offer round occurs in mid December prior to the year of commencement. The third round occurs in early to mid January in the year of commencement. Subsequent rounds may occur in February in the year of commencement, again subject to availability of places in the enrolment quota. Unconditional offers of admissions must be accepted within 2 weeks of the date of offer, or may lapse.

Applicants are unable to defer an offer of admission to a later semester or year. Applicants who wish to defer will instead need to make a new application for admission to a later year.  There is no mid-year intake.

A limited number of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) may be available to domestic applicants for this course from year to year, subject to confirmation from the Australian Government.

IELTS score - A minimum result of 7.5 overall and a minimum result of 6.5 in each band

Pearsons Test of English - A minimum result of 76 overall and a minimum result of 61 in each band