Bachelor of Agricultural Science / Bachelor of Business

When you join the Bachelor of Agricultural Science / Bachelor of Business at Murdoch University, you won’t just sit in classrooms learning theory. From your very first days, you’ll be out on the farm, working with livestock, crops, pastures and soil systems — right on campus. It’s the only metropolitan university farm in Australia, so hands-on, real agriculture is always just a few steps away.

Alongside practical science, you’ll build strong business skills too. With a choice of majors like Management, Marketing or International Business, you’ll learn how to run and grow agribusiness operations on a global scale. It’s a powerful combination: understanding what the land needs and knowing how to take a product to market.

Throughout your studies, you’ll connect directly with industry and community partners through placements and internships. These experiences help you put your learning into action on real farms, in agribusiness companies and even in research settings across Western Australia.

Your week might include working in paddocks, running lab experiments, touring production facilities, analysing business challenges or developing solutions with your classmates. By graduation, you won’t just be prepared for a career — you’ll already have lived it.

Here’s how you’ll build those skills along the way:

• Real farm work on campus — managing animals, testing soil health, helping with crop trials and more.
• Industry placements — gaining experience in actual farms and agribusiness organisations.
• Field trips and study tours — seeing the full journey from paddock to export markets.
• Collaborative projects — combining your agriculture and business knowledge to solve real-world challenges.
• Access to specialised facilities — using labs and research environments that drive innovation in crop and animal productivity.

By the time you complete your degree, you’ll be job-ready, connected with industry and confident in your abilities — with both scientific know-how and the business mindset to truly make an impact in the agribusiness world.

If you go on to study the Bachelor of Agricultural Science / Bachelor of Business (code B1393) at Murdoch University, you’ll be setting yourself up for an exciting and wide-ranging career. You’ll graduate with the ability to step into roles such as Agricultural Scientist, Agricultural Economist or Analyst, Farm Manager, or Agronomist, because this degree pairs deep scientific knowledge of animal/crop and pasture systems with solid business acumen. The mix of technical agriculture and business emphasises that you won’t just understand production, you’ll understand how to make it work in global markets too.

Here’s what this means for you:

• Murdoch has a dedicated Careers & Employability service, offering one-to-one career advice, online toolkits for job applications and interviews, a jobs board and regular employer events — so you won’t just be studying, you’ll be preparing for work.

• The program includes industry placements and internships via the School of Agricultural Sciences, working with businesses, government and non-profits so you gain real-world experience while you study.

• The university emphasises embedded career-development learning, industry-aligned projects and work-integrated learning in all bachelor degrees — so you build employability skills alongside your academic learning.

• Murdoch has been ranked among Australia’s best for graduate employability – in earlier Graduate Outcomes Survey data 96.7% of its undergraduates were in employment after three years.

• Because this is a combined degree (Agricultural Science + Business) you gain a dual-strength credential: you’re not just studying agriculture but also management/marketing/international business, which broadens your career possibilities and gives you added flexibility long-term.

Further Academic Progression:
After completing this degree, you could choose to deepen your expertise by moving into a postgraduate program at Murdoch — for example a Master in Agribusiness, Agricultural Science, or a Master of Business Administration with an agricultural focus. You might also consider research-oriented pathways in agricultural science (such as crop genetics, animal health, sustainable farming systems) which the School supports through industry-partnership placements and research centres. That means if you decide down the track you’d like to move from practical roles into advanced research, policy development, or higher-level business leadership, you’ll have a strong foundation to build from — both in science and in business.