Bachelor of Applied Innovation

The Bachelor of Applied Innovation is the first degree of its kind in Victoria. It focuses on helping students think like innovators, explore bold ideas, and create unprecedented solutions by working across different disciplines, methods, and ways of looking at the world to find solutions to the world's biggest challenges.

Yes, you can add the Bachelor of Applied Innovation to one of Swinburne's popular bachelor degrees as a double degree, allowing you to combine innovation skills with another area of study.

Students take part in industry projects, design challenges, innovation sprints, and hackathons. Previous industry partners have included CSIRO, Panasonic, St Vincent's, and ANZ, giving students access to a broad array of partners to build a comprehensive innovation project portfolio.

Graduates will have skills to implement new ideas and help organisations be future-ready, combine data-informed insights with imagination and intellectual curiosity, use technology to develop innovation, and make decisions based on analytical and strategic thinking, human understanding, and respect for future generations.

The degree includes hands-on activities such as industry projects, design challenges, innovation sprints, and hackathons. Students also learn how to experiment, challenge assumptions, build prototypes, and evolve ideas within Swinburne's culture of creativity and innovation built through decades of industry relationships.