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Chemistry with a Year’s Professional Placement MSci

UCAS code: F104

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAA
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
5 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2024
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

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.
Hayley

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

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

Recent graduates have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

  • Markets Analyst, RBS
  • Technology Consultant, KPMG
  • Tax Associate, Grant Thornton
  • Media Analyst, Media Sense Communications
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Dentistry
  • Financial Management
  • Molecular & Life Science

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

Recent graduates have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

  • Markets Analyst, RBS
  • Technology Consultant, KPMG
  • Tax Associate, Grant Thornton
  • Media Analyst, Media Sense Communications
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Dentistry
  • Financial Management
  • Molecular & Life Science

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAA
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
5 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2024
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

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