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Chemistry with Biomedicine with a Year in Industry MSci

UCAS code: F1CF

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:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
5 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

The Chemistry with Biomedicine MSci course will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry. You’ll explore the different strands of chemistry and apply them to biological and biomedical systems - all under the guidance of our research-led scientists. Alongside this, you’ll gain valuable work experience with the opportunity of a year-long internship at a major UK company. In your final year of the MSci, you’ll explore your interests with a six-month research project in our state-of-the-art labs or with our hospital partners. By the end of your studies, you’ll be an articulate, flexible and biomedically-aware chemist, ready for a career in a wide variety of industries, from chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries to finance, law and media.

Key benefits

  • The only London university to combine Chemistry and Biomedicine, taking advantage of King’s strengths in biomedical research.
  • Research-enriched teaching delivered by chemists working within a very broad range of chemical, biomedical and health applications.
  • Enhanced by the opportunity for a Year in Industry for which students apply to nationally competitive year-long internships in the wide variety of professions open to our graduates from traditional chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries through to business, finance, law and more.
  • 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.
  • Includes a major six-month project in our labs or with our hospital partners.
  • Fully integrated laboratory facilities in the heart of London.
  • One of very few universities to offer a degree in Chemistry with Biomedicine.

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:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
5 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

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