Our four-year Chemistry MSci degree will give you a theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry in the modern world. Our course is delivered within a research-enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating practical methods throughout. In your final year of the MSci, you’ll explore your interests with an extended research project in our state-of-the-art labs. The course is designed to train the next generation of articulate, flexible chemists for a wide variety of careers starting with chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries and extending to wide careers such as finance, law and media.
We are taught by academics who are experts in their respective fields, conducting world-leading research, in state-of-the-art facilities.
Chemistry at King’s draws on the interface between the physical and life sciences, to explore new frontiers and deliver fundamental solutions for a sustainable and healthy society. Experts in everything from the chemistry of life to pharmaceutical sciences, green chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology and computational methods, our academics are fighting against antimicrobial resistance, improving chemotherapy treatments and finding new uses for enzymes in carbon capture and plastic recycling.
Our Chemistry MSci course integrates a comprehensive grounding in core chemistry principles with the skills and understanding to apply this in a broad range of contexts, drawing from active chemical and biomedical research and practice at King’s, and leading to many career options.
Flexibility in course choice
Students on the BSc and MSci courses do the same first three years, which includes project-driven laboratory practicals in Year 3. MSci students also have the opportunity to transfer to a study abroad pathway to spend either an additional year, or a semester of your fourth year, studying at a partner institution before returning to King’s to complete your studies. Transfer between these two degrees is possible up to and including the third year and is dependent on you reaching a specified average grade.
Transferring from the Chemistry MSci/BSc degrees to the Chemistry with Biomedicine MSci/BSc degrees is also possible up to the end of your second term of the first year.
Students on this degree are also able to transfer to the corresponding ‘with a Year in Industry’ degree programme after your second year, provided you meet the academic requirements and gain one of the competitive year-long internships. This will add an additional year onto the programme.
Transfer and progression to either of the study abroad pathways or the ‘with a Year in Industry’ programme requires you to meet and maintain a grade threshold.
UCAS code:
F103
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full-time
Required A-Levels:
AAB
Duration:
4 years
Application status:
Start date:
September 2027
Application deadline:
Reviewed, inspected and accredited by the The Royal Society for Chemistry
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