Overview

Career readiness

Our graduates are in-demand - and they’re successful in securing employment across a diverse range of industries. With a Bachelor of Arts, you’ll develop career-ready skills including: creative and analytical thinking, communication expertise, and leadership.

Explore the world

Develop an international perspective through language study, and enjoy opportunities to study overseas.

Pursue the career you want

Different career paths require different skills and specialist knowledge. You can pair studies from more than 30 subject areas available in Arts and gain the foundational knowledge to pursue the career you want. Here are some examples:

• Ancient World Studies + Latin = Archaeology
• Art History + French = Art curatorship
• Criminology + Psychology = Forensic psychology
• Development Studies + Sociology = Local government, NGOs
• English and Theatre Studies + History = Teaching
• Politics + Environmental Studies = Environmental activism
• Linguistics and Applied Linguistics + Chinese = Translation
• Media and Communications + Creative Writing = Journalism
• Psychology + Linguistics and Applied Linguistics = Speech pathology
• Psychology + Media and Communications = Marketing
• Sociology + Psychology = Social work

Graduate employment

Many of our graduates who do not go onto further study, are employed in a diverse array of fields. Some of these include: government - Victorian Public Service and Australian Public Service (via Graduate Employment Programs); non-government organisations (such as in project coordination, research, policy support and advocacy); and media and communications organisations (such as in journalism cadetships, communications, online content management and media monitoring).

All our graduates have diverse skills and work in a wide range of occupations, depending on where their passions, experience and opportunities have taken them.

Watch some of our graduates talk about how they’ve used their Bachelor of Arts in their careers, then explore their stories to learn what it’s like to study Arts at Melbourne.

Employers of our graduates include:

• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
• Australian government
• Crikey.com.au
• Fairfax Media
• Museum Victoria
• Oxfam
• Penguin Books
• State Library of Victoria
• United Nations
• Victoria Legal Aid.

Entry-level positions taken up by recent graduates include:

• Arts administrator
• Business consultant
• Communications officer
• Conservator
• Editor
• Executive officer
• Media adviser
• Policy officer
• Project officer
• Research assistant
• Student adviser
• Technical writer
• Training coordinator
• Travel writer.

Mid-career positions held by our graduates include:

• Advertising specialist
• Communications manager
• Community organiser
• Human resource adviser
• Journalist
• Land economist
• Political adviser
• Project manager
• University academic