King's College London

Our Chemistry with a Year in Industry BSc equips you with 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 your essential career skills like project management, communication, and teamwork.

You can also choose to study for our integrated Master’s course (MSci), adding a fifth year to your degree during which you’ll undertake a substantial project of your choice, tackling a real-world problem in the Department or King’s Health Faculties and hospitals, or even the Francis Crick Institute, a King’s partner and global leader in biomedical research.

This programme adds a further, optional year’s professional internship to our Chemistry BSc. Our Chemistry BSc with a Year in industry 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.

To take the Year in Industry, you need to meet and maintain a grade threshold and to be successful in securing a year’s professional internship offered by major companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, or in finance, banking, management and law, and smaller organisations such as biotech companies.

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 you reaching a specified average grade.

Transfer 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.