This program is an integral part of regional, rural and national sustainability. It provides an environmental training within a mainstream sciences major. The BEnvSc will produce graduates of high quality, who will be valued for their expertise in basic scientific disciplines and for their ability to apply their knowledge to cross-disciplinary areas, especially those relating to environmental issues. They will have direct application and specialisation in areas such as scientific understanding of the physical and biological processes operating in the environment, the impact of human activities on the physical and biological environment, pollution of the environment and its impact on human and other organisms and remediation strategies for a polluted environment.

There are no compulsory HSC prerequisites but it is assumed that students enrolling in the degree will have completed Mathematics, Physics and/or Chemistry. Biology is recommended.

Employment opportunities for BEnv.Sc graduates in areas such as: government planning departments at Local, State and Federal levels; Environmental Protection Agency and associated bodies; environmental control units (forestry, water and irrigation, national parks and wildlife, soil conservation, sustainable agriculture); CSIRO (research in water, soils, atmosphere, earth sciences); international agencies (aid and development projects); environmental consultants (environmental impact studies, planning); Departments of Agriculture and Resource Management; Departments of Water and Land Resources; industrial areas (waste treatment, water quality, effluent monitoring, hydrology); mining industry (mine rehabilitation, mining effluent control and treatment); risk evaluation in the insurance industry; and processing and production industries, both primary and secondary.