King's College London

Our Chemistry with Biomedicine with a Year in Industry BSc course is designed to give you the in-demand skills to make a real impact on the world. You'll gain deep knowledge and hands-on laboratory experience across all areas of chemistry and biomedicine. Plus, a year-long professional placement in a major UK company means you can directly apply your learning, gaining crucial skills and experience for your future career.

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, plus the lab skills 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 of Chemistry, 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.

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 and Biomedicine BSc with a Year in Industry course integrates a comprehensive grounding in core 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.

We help prepare you for these competitive year-long placements by providing support from King’s Career Services, a Chemistry academic Year in Industry lead and a dedicated Faculty Placement Coordinator.

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. Transfer between these two degrees is possible up to and including the third year and is dependent on reaching a specified average grade.

Transfer from the Chemistry with Biomedicine MSci/BSc degrees to the Chemistry MSci/BSc degrees is also possible up to the second term of the second year.