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Double degrees

Earn two degrees with only one1 extra year of study and broaden your career opportunities. Combining engineering with another degree gives you a distinct set of skills and helps you stand out in today’s competitive job market.

Employers often seek engineering graduates with expertise in other disciplines and are impressed by the breadth of knowledge and insight in double-degree graduates. Combine your engineering degree with commerce, information technology, science and more to pursue a career in either area, or to take up one of the many opportunities emerging at the intersection of disciplines. An engineering double degree offers diversity, more career choices and flexibility.

I chose Monash primarily for its double degree in Engineering and Biomedical Science. It greatly appealed to me that I could explore two different industries simultaneously and come out with the necessary qualifications to work in both straight away. I also felt that it would keep my options open and give me more choices when I graduated.”
ELITA WU
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Biomedicine
Research Officer, Monash University
Technical Officer, Monash University

Choosing a double degree combination

Having trouble deciding? The following information might help give you a sense of which double degree combination will best meet your needs and interests. The entry requirements for each double degree combination can be found at the Study at Monash.

The building industry needs engineering professionals with strong architectural knowledge. The combination of architectural design with civil engineering is an exploration of creative solutions to a wide variety of engineering and social problems.
You’ll graduate with valuable skills for transforming the built environment, from the design of buildings or bridges to renovating existing structures to work more efficiently. The ability to provide solutions through creative thinking and realistic applications will make you attractive to architectural and engineering firms in Australia and overseas.
Combining an engineering degree with an arts degree provides complementary skills in technology and communications. You’ll develop the transferable skills employers are looking for: communication, teamwork, research and critical thinking.
Arts at Monash provides your comprehensive gateway to about 40 areas of study across the arts, humanities and social sciences. With this dual degree you’ll have a portfolio uniquely tailored to meet your interests and aspirations.
If you’re eager to explore a career in biological/biomedical engineering, consider a double degree in engineering and biomedical science. Advances in biological sciences and demand for technological solutions are creating opportunities for engineers. In the coming years engineering will be transformed, as it parallels and fuses with developments in biomedical science.
Do you dream of making it big in the business world? If so, engineering and commerce is a powerful combination. Many CEOs of major corporations have engineering qualifications. People with sound business skills and a strong technological background are consistently in demand across many industries and organisations.
Computer science provides solutions to the ever-increasing information challenges in the modern world. Industry needs people who can extract and analyse information from the massive datasets generated by engineering processes and devices. Big data is the new challenge and opportunity in engineering practice across industries from construction and manufacturing, to transport and the energy sector. This double degree integrates theoretical and practical skills to solve engineering problems and create innovative solutions across the IT spectrum, from hardware to software.
Have an eye for form and function? Like to build things? Consider combining mechanical engineering with design to become a product design engineer. Product design engineers design and develop
manufactured products that are functional, ergonomic, beautiful and well-engineered.
This double degree integrates the technical and project management skills of an engineer with the creativity and manufacturing know-how of an industrial designer.
In an age of increasing technological advancements, the synergy between engineering and information technology (IT) will only become stronger. IT underpins engineering practice in all disciplines, and industry needs graduates with skills and expertise spanning both. You could
do anything from designing a stunning visualisation of engineering data, to building an app for data collection, to setting up the business IT processes to deliver an engineering product via the internet.
This double degree combines creative and problem-solving skills to use IT in engineering applications.
An engineering and laws double degree bridges the gap between technological and legal issues. This double degree combination produces engineers who are sensitive to the legal, corporate and political implications of technology and its applications. As an engineering and law graduate, you’re eligible to practise as a solicitor; alternatively, you might join the legal team of an engineering, manufacturing or technology firm.
There’s an increasing demand for pharmaceutical scientists with the expertise to take products from the design and formulation stage through to manufacturing. Chemical engineers can design, run and troubleshoot production facilities, but their training typically excludes the skills to develop pharmaceutical and related products. Similarly, formulation scientists can invent and test products such as pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics, but they lack the know-how to manage the product process beyond the laboratory stage.
This double degree combines chemical engineering and pharmaceutical science to produce professionals capable of covering the full spectrum of the pharmaceutical product design and development process.
Engineering is concerned with the application of science; however many engineers are fascinated by scientific investigation and eager to enhance their understanding of the pure sciences. You may choose to combine engineering with food science or technology, or explore the fundamentals
of the cosmos through astrophysics. Or you may be interested in the most fascinating machine of all – the human body.

The following table shows double degree combinations and the Engineering specialisations with which they are available

	Arch. Design	Arts	Biomed. Sci	Comm.	Comp. Sci.	Design^{^}	IT	Law	Pharm. Sci.⁺	Sci.
Aerospace		Yes		Yes				Yes		Yes
Chemical		Yes	Yes	Yes				Yes	Yes	Yes
Civil	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes				Yes		Yes
Electrical & Computer Systems		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes
Environmental		Yes		Yes						Yes
Materials		Yes	Yes	Yes				Yes		Yes
Mechanical		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes		Yes		Yes
Robotics & Mechatronics		Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes			Yes
Software		Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes			Yes

* Additional 2.25 years for engineering and laws double degree.
^ Industrial design only.
+ Formulation science only.