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The Bachelor of Environments (Honours) provides an advanced, specialised year of study that follows completion of the requirements of the Bachelor of Environments. It extends a student’s knowledge and skills through a supervised research project together with advanced coursework in related areas of study. The Bachelor of Environments (Honours) can be taken in two different programs: Landscape Management or Environmental Geography.The Bachelor of Environments (Honours) provides students with the opportunity to integrate their previous studies and focus their knowledge, skills and intellect on an exciting piece of original research.

The honours year is an additional (fourth) year of specialised study in one of the following disciplines: accounting, actuarial studies, economics or finance. It is an integrated program with small classes and an emphasis on research and specialised subject areas.The honours year is open to commerce students. Prospective applicants should note that students must commence the honours year within two years of completing the requirements of the commerce course. Graduates of other institutions are also welcome to apply. Honours is normally taken on a full-time basis immediately after finishing the requirements for the three-year commerce degree. Provision exists for deferred entry in exceptional circumstances.Chancellor's Scholars who are admitted into the University of Melbourne's Bachelor of Commerce under a guaranteed entry pathway to a professional entry graduate course, such as the Juris Doctor, can undertake an Honours year and not jeopardise their guaranteed entry into their chosen graduate course.The honours degree is an entry qualification for a masters degree and a PhD within Australia or overseas. A good honours degree also assists students in obtaining scholarships or other forms of financial support to undertake higher degrees. Career advancement has also tended to be more rapid for honours graduates.

The Bachelor of Biomedicine (Honours) provides an advanced, specialised year of study that follows students’ completion of the requirements of the Bachelor of Biomedicine. It extends students’ knowledge and skills through a supervised research project together with advanced coursework in related areas of study.The Bachelor of Biomedicine (Honours) is available in the following programs:Anatomy and NeuroscienceBiochemistry and Molecular BiologyBiosciencesClinical PathologyHearing Sciences (Otolaryngology)Medical Biology (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research)Medicine (Austin Health)Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital)Medicine (St Vincent’s Hospital)Microbiology and ImmunologyOral Health SciencePaediatricsPathologyPharmacologyPhysiologyPopulation and Global HealthPrimary Care (General Practice)PsychologySurgery (Austin Health)Veterinary BioscienceVision Sciences

The Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours) is an advanced and specialised course of study requiring a higher standard of performance than a pass degree. It offers a broad range of Arts programs in humanities, social sciences and languages and enhances students’ ability to acquire advanced research and analytical skills and develop original ideas. It augments students’ ability to apply innovative solutions to complex problems. Students may specialise in one area of study (pure honours) or two (combined honours) depending on specialisation.The Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours) is available to students who have completed a Bachelor of Arts degree within the last five years.

The honours year in Bachelor of Agriculture comprises advanced coursework, and an individual research project designed to extend students' knowledge and skills in solving research problems. Completion of an honours year further prepares students for employment, or for a research higher degree (Doctor of Philosophy or Masters by Research).The honours year programs are undertaken on a full-time basis and commence at the start of the year only.On completion of the fourth (honours) year, the School determines the award of honours degrees on the basis of average mark of the weighted average of all fourth-year subjects. The resulting figure is the 'Honours Score'.https://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/study/honours

The Bachelor of Science (Extended) is a four-year program that provides a transition into tertiary science and technology study and is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. A year of study in addition to the three-year BSc program provides students with foundation knowledge and skills in science, mathematics and communication, while supporting the development of students’ academic skills for tertiary study. Upon completion, graduates will have completed all of the requirements of the Bachelor of Science.Students are supported by a range of the University’s student support services, including Murrup Barak, the Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development, as well as having the opportunity to live in one of the colleges affiliated with the University of Melbourne.

The Bachelor of Science (BSc) course is designed to provide excellent science education across a broad range of science and technology areas of study and equip students with a range of knowledge and skills to enhance their science studies. The degree will provide flexible pathways to employment, research higher degrees and many professional postgraduate programs.

The Bachelor of Music program is a three-year, full-time degree that offers pre-professional music training in the following areas of study: Music Performance, Composition, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Jazz & Improvisation, and Interactive Composition.The specialisations develop technically advanced and experienced musicians through an immersive and practical curriculum with core studies, music electives and complementary Breadth subjects.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts is a three-year degree which offers immersive and experiential practice-based studio studies in nine areas of specialisation (Acting, Animation, Dance, Design and Production, Film and Television, Music Theatre, Screenwriting, Theatre and Visual Art). It features an intense and student-centred approach to skills training, to create self-confident and autonomous arts practitioners with the capacity to build sustainable careers in an international context. Each specialisation features regular opportunities for exhibition, production and performance, and culminates in a capstone experience, which prepares students for professional work and further research. Critical studies build knowledge of the context of a student’s core discipline along with academic literacy, and complementary studies offer a choice of electives in the visual and performing arts, or from other areas of study within the University of Melbourne. The degree is designed to have international currency and to assist the VCA to raise its international profile.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) focuses on a rigorous conservatoire style preparation for theatre practitioners working across all areas of live performance (including physical performance, writing, direction, and dramaturgy). It offers learning experiences of requisite size and scale to accommodate the demands of intensive project-based work in theatrical contexts, and exposes students to current infrastructural, cultural and methodological practices in the profession. It offers students opportunities to engage in National and International engagement projects, building on existing expertise and approaches to industry readiness for the autonomous, ensemble and company practitioner. The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) explicitly enables graduates to enter the profession with the capacity to instigate necessary change and leadership with effective clarity, preparedness and skill. Our graduates work at all levels of the profession, and are renowned for their capacity to work creatively and collaboratively, in both traditional and ground- breaking performance contexts. Students establish careers in professional theatre, community arts and education, film, television, radio, new media, and education.