University of Melbourne welcomes student places to support Nuclear-Powered Submarine Student Pathways

The University of Melbourne has welcomed the allocation of 300 domestic science student places under the Australian Government’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine (NPS) Student Pathways program.

Overall, the NPS offers 4,001 Commonwealth supported places in STEM courses to help grow the skilled workforce required to deliver the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway, starting in 2024.

These places will be offered in identified priority areas including physics, chemistry and mathematics and statistics.

Graduates from the NPS will form part of the future workforce needed to operate and build advanced technologies, including nuclear-powered submarines, that Australia will acquire from the United States and United Kingdom and build in South Australia.

The first cohort will start in Semester 1, 2024. The program concludes in 2030.

Professor Moira O’Bryan, Dean of the Faculty of Science, said: “The University of Melbourne is a strategic partner to the Australian Government on issues of national importance. Students will benefit from these new places and have the opportunity to achieve an undergraduate and go on to study a masters degree through our curriculum.

“These students will learn from academics who are addressing complex problems in innovative ways, providing them with the skills and ability to become leaders in the workforce of the future.”

Separately and as part of the University of Melbourne’s ongoing commitment to providing opportunities for students from all backgrounds, places and scholarships will be available through a range of programs including the University’s new Narrm Scholarships program announced earlier this month.

The University of Melbourne provides financial and practical support to eligible Australian students, and to students applying to study at the University through VTAC’s Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS), known as Access Melbourne.