理学硕士（扩展）旨在通过管理和商业敏锐度来更新和扩大学生的科学和行业经验。它为学生提供了许多机会，包括为他们现有的专业增值，使他们掌握知识和技术，或者扩展到感兴趣的不同专业以获得专业和管理技能。该课程包含与所有科学学科相关的专业必修课。核心科目提供了对专业科学家重要的技能骨干，无论他们从事研究，科学业务，行业或政府组织。
The Master of Science (Extension) aims to renew and broaden students' scientific and industry experience with managerial and business acumen. It provides students with numerous opportunities by value-adding to their existing specialisations and bringing them up to speed on knowledge and technologies, or by expanding into different majors of interest to acquire professional and management skills. The course contains a compulsory core of professional subjects relevant to all science disciplines. The subjects in the core provide a backbone of skills important to a professional scientist, be they engaged in research, science businesses, industries or government organisations. These are the skills of communication, critical analysis, project management and innovation and commercialisation. The professional strand is complemented by a choice of major study in a specific science or mathematics discipline. Students may have the option of undertaking a small research project, subject to approval by the faculty. For students with suitable achievement levels, an opportunity to undertake a more substantial research project is available by transferring into the Master of Science (Honours) (C04267). For those considering a research degree, the Master of Science (Honours) provides a pathway to a PhD. The final session of electives allows students to complement their existing skill set using tailored subjects from related disciplines across health, engineering and business.