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Overview

Our Chemistry with a Year in Industry BSc will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, with opportunity for a year's professional placement in a major UK company to allow you to test your training, and assess your career choices, in the workplace. This programme is delivered within a research - enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating practical methods throughout. It 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 wider careers e.g. finance, law and media.

Key benefits

  • A unique curriculum designed to build well-rounded graduates with the flexibility to pursue a range of careers including in the growing areas of biotech and nanotechnology, chemical biology and biomedical research.
  • Explore emerging fields and cutting-edge innovations in chemistry through modules informed directly by our scientists' pioneering research.
  • Fully integrated laboratory facilities in the heart of London. 
  • 6th in the UK for producing the most employable graduates (Times Higher Education Graduate Employability rankings 2024/5). 
  • 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.
  • Flexibility to transfer to Chemistry MSci or Chemistry with Biomedicine degree.
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We are taught by academics who are experts in their respective fields, conducting world-leading research, in state-of-the-art facilities.
SamerChemistry BSc

Course essentials

Special features

Optional year in industry

Key Information

UCAS code:

F101

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:

Administrative bodies

Course accreditation

Royal Society of Chemistry accreditation

Reviewed, inspected and accredited by the The Royal Society for Chemistry

Awarding body

King's College London

King's College London and Affiliates

Regulating body

Base campuses

Waterloo - students walking outside Franklin-Wilkins building

Waterloo Campus

Centrally located and well connected, Waterloo brings together students from health, science and law, just steps from the South Bank. It's also home to the world's #2 nursing school – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (QS 2026).

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Guy’s Campus

Tucked next to London Bridge and the historic Borough Market, Guy's Campus is a close-knit home for health and science students. With cutting-edge labs and buzzing central location, it offers an inspiring and unique place to study.