James Cook University is a leading education and research centre for biology in the tropics. Internationally-recognised undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs in biological sciences dedicated research vessel, and research stations at Orpheus Island and Paluma more tropical courses and subjects than any other institution in the world teaching and research facilities including the Advanced Analytical Centre and the Aquaculture Research Facility.

Your studies make full use of the wide variety of natural tropical environments surrounding JCU. You can structure your course to specialise in the ecology of rainforests, savannah, tropical freshwater systems, tropical wildlife, or tropical insects.