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Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc

UCAS code: FC17

Please note the course details including entry requirements and application deadlines apply to 2024 entry. Fees supplied apply to students entering King's in 2025. Details for 2025 entry will be published shortly, please check back for more details in the coming weeks.

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
3 years
Application status:
Closed
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2025

Our Chemistry with Biomedicine integrated undergraduate and master’s degree equips you with the in-demand skills to make a real impact on the world. You will gain deep knowledge and hands-on laboratory experience across all areas of chemistry and biomedicine, from the chemistry of disease to drug design and delivery to the chemistry of living systems. Our unique interdisciplinary approach and strong links with King's world-class Health Faculties and hospitals will prepare you to tackle complex, real-world problems, opening the door to a range of future-focused careers. Our graduates pursue roles in the chemical, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries, but also in tech, finance, and even law, where their analytical and problem-solving skills are invaluable. Taught by leading scientists who are shaping the future of chemistry, our course provides rigorous training in core principles including physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry, as well as key mathematical skills for studying analytical and computational chemistry. Our integrated laboratory course enables you to apply your learning, and understand the power of chemistry in solving challenges and driving innovation. You will also tackle an open-ended project, helping sharpen essential career skills like project management, communication, and teamwork. You can also choose to study for our integrated Master’s course (MSci) – adding a fourth year to your degree during which you’ll undertake a substantial research project. This enables you to integrate advanced knowledge from across your years of study and carry out novel research in the Department, as well as for the Health Faculties and hospitals or even the Francis Crick Institute, a King’s partner and global leader in biomedical research.

Key benefits

  • One of very few universities to offer a degree in Chemistry with Biomedicine – including only London university
  • Flexibility to transfer to Chemistry with Biomedicine MSci, to Chemistry MSci/BSc degrees or to a Year in industry programme.
  • 8th in the UK for Chemistry (Times Higher Education, QS 2025 subject rankings ) 
  • Career flexibility: you’ll gain a wide range of skills to use in the growing fields of biomedical engineering, biotech, chemical biology and biological and biomedical research.
  • Strong links to King’s world-class Health Faculties and teaching hospitals, and benefiting from our strengths in biomedical research.
  • Explore emerging fields and cutting-edge innovations in chemistry through modules informed directly by our scientists' pioneering research.
  • 6th in the UK for most employable graduates (Times Higher Education Graduate Employability rankings 2024/5). 

We are taught by academics who are experts in their respective fields, conducting world-leading research, in state-of-the-art facilities.

Samer, Chemistry BSc

Employability

Our Chemistry graduates are in high demand because employers recognise the wide range of skills that they possess. We train Chemists to think logically and apply mathematical and practical techniques to solve real problems. Our ambition is to produce graduates who have a wider vision of the applications of chemistry for the coming decades and who are equipped for flexible careers to adapt to the changing global and national challenges facing Chemistry. Graduates from our course can be found in a range of sectors where they can exploit their skills and expertise including research, management, finance, medicine and law.

Destinations

Our graduates have found employment within roles like:

  • Scientist
  • Team Leader
  • Pharmacokineticist
  • Nuclear Safety Engineer
  • Industrial Chemist
  • Research Scientist Manager
  • Engineering Co-Ordinator
  • Policy Analyst
  • Senior Environmental Consultant
  • Water Engineer
  • Senior Manager Audit
  • Head Of Client Integration
  • Science Teacher
  • Head of Chemistry

They went to work for companies like: Pfizer Ltd, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Babcock, Rohm GmbH, Facebook UK, Greencore, Sandbag Climate Campaign, HSBC, BNP Paribas

Employability

Our Chemistry graduates are in high demand because employers recognise the wide range of skills that they possess. We train Chemists to think logically and apply mathematical and practical techniques to solve real problems. Our ambition is to produce graduates who have a wider vision of the applications of chemistry for the coming decades and who are equipped for flexible careers to adapt to the changing global and national challenges facing Chemistry. Graduates from our course can be found in a range of sectors where they can exploit their skills and expertise including research, management, finance, medicine and law.

Destinations

Our graduates have found employment within roles like:

  • Scientist
  • Team Leader
  • Pharmacokineticist
  • Nuclear Safety Engineer
  • Industrial Chemist
  • Research Scientist Manager
  • Engineering Co-Ordinator
  • Policy Analyst
  • Senior Environmental Consultant
  • Water Engineer
  • Senior Manager Audit
  • Head Of Client Integration
  • Science Teacher
  • Head of Chemistry

They went to work for companies like: Pfizer Ltd, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Babcock, Rohm GmbH, Facebook UK, Greencore, Sandbag Climate Campaign, HSBC, BNP Paribas

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
3 years
Application status:
Closed
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2025

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