Chemistry with a Year’s Professional Placement MSci

Our Chemistry with a Year’s Professional Placement MSci will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, with a year professional placement in a major UK company to allow you to test your training, and assess your career choices, in the workplace. Our course is delivered within a research- enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating practical methods throughout. In your final year of the MSci, you’ll explore your interests with a 6-month research project in our state-of-the-art labs. The course 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 wide careers such as finance, law and media.

Key benefits

• Top 10 in the UK for Chemistry (QS rankings by subject 2023) 
• You’ll benefit from research-enriched teaching delivered by internationally renowned scientists and researchers. 
• Your Professional Placement year is designed to develop your skills and enhance your employability. 
• You'll have access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities located in the heart of London. 
• Includes a major six-month project in one of our research groups.
• Enhanced by the opportunity for a Year’s Professional Placement 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.

“I chose to study at King’s as I was drawn to the rapport between staff and students in the Chemistry department.”

Hayley, Chemistry with Biomedicine MSci