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Undergraduate Study

Starting a degree is exciting. It's challenging and enlightening. It's the start of a new you. At ECU, it's also the start of a new way of thinking. Here, you'll learn to challenge things. To see problems as opportunities. And to think creatively about the world around you. It's your new superpower.

Creative thinkers made here.
Creative thinkers made here.

Why study at ECU?

Meet our undergraduates

Our undergraduate students come from all walks of life and educational backgrounds. Hear what some of them they have to say about their ECU experience in these short videos.

Explore your options

Becoming a midwife has been a long-time passion for Brodie Hibberd. Now she's on her way with ECU's unique double dose of nursing and midwifery degrees.

Soumita Kale is a cyber security student who never sits still. When she's not studying, she's volunteering to run workshops about coding for high school girls or explaining cyber safety to kids.

Dan's a brickie with a difference. He's studying psychology online with ECU, while juggling work, family and a social life.

After Michaela De Paolis fell in love with CrossFit, it led to a passion for nutrition – food being key to any kind of fitness routine. This led to a career change and a return to uni.

Samantha Mowle is a psychology student who really appreciates flexibility. And she found it at a university that's renowned for helping all kinds of students get into their study groove.

Liam Guy's passions include health and science. Little wonder he's now a Health Science student, specialising in Environmental Management and Health Promotion. It's a good career direction too.

Courses you can study here

To help you start to find a career direction, we group similar fields of work into study areas.

Within each study area, you can choose an undergraduate (first) degree. And within most degree courses, you can choose a specialty, or major subject in your first or second year.

Many of our undergraduate courses can also be studied online.

Explore your interests

To help you find a course to match your career aspirations, we've grouped broad areas of work into eight study areas. Each study area has disciplines you can explore to find your course.

Scholarship opportunities

Scholarships recognise students whose life journey may have been challenging, as well as people who've shown outstanding academic excellence and endeavour.

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Domestic Students

Undergraduate course guide

Creative thinkers start here

Experience Undergraduate at ECU.

Facilities

Need some help deciding what to study?

Our future student events include a mix of on-campus and online sessions designed to help you decide what to study at ECU.

Do you have any questions about Undergraduate degrees?

Student stories

  • Sarah Pillar

    Sarah Pillar

    ECU Speech Pathology graduate

    It was a great hands-on opportunity to learn what a Speech Pathologist does

    Speech Pathology is a blend of science and working with people and that was embedded throughout the course. We had practical units from first year where we would go out and observe Speech Pathologists and see how they worked and the environments they worked in. It was a great hands-on opportunity to learn what a Speech Pathologist does, so I was better prepared when I graduated.

  • Angel Jin

    ECU Secondary Education student

    This is definitely what I want to do...

    Secondary Education student, Angel Jin switched to ECU to study to become a teacher. This is her (short) story.

  • Aaron Tucker

    Aaron Tucker

    ECU Finance graduate

    I chose ECU because it offered fully online units with fantastic student support, which was ideal when I was working full time at the start of my degree

    My entire world view has been expanded by studying at ECU. I had no real idea how complicated Finance was before I started. The further into my studies I have progressed, the more I have leant on things I picked up in the first year introductory classes. The skills I have picked up during my course have always had a compounding effect and I now feel comfortable to market myself to employers.

The Important Things

Things you should know about if you're thinking about studying here.

Course Entry

There's more than one admission pathway into an ECU course. It depends on what you've studied already, or your work or life experience.

Fees & Scholarships

Course tuition fees can change, but we can give you an estimate of your costs. If you're eligible, a scholarship or student loan can help too.

Applying

Applying for a course is a fairly simple process, especially if you have scanned copies of qualifications, your resume or other paperwork, ready to upload.

ECU Experience

Starting a course is an exciting and sometimes daunting time, so we make a massive effort to ensure you get all the support you need to have a positive experience.