Neuroscience with Artificial Intelligence with Foundation Year

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Neuroscience with Artificial Intelligence
Immerse yourself in the dynamic fields of neuroscience and AI, where human cognition merges with computational breakthroughs. Learning from our research-active experts in state-of-the-art laboratories, you'll explore the intricate complexities of brain function and how artificial intelligence and machine learning can revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. On successful completion of the programme, you'll graduate with the research, data analysis, and computational methodologies to drive advances in research, biotechnology, and clinical diagnostics.

Why choose Neuroscience with Artificial Intelligence at Keele?

• 20th in England for Neuroscience, Guardian University Guide 2025

• Learn to apply machine learning to uncover hidden patterns in complex neuroscience data

• Build real-world experience through a work placement or by studying abroad

• Gain practical employability skills with modules in research design and scientific programming

• resent your research project findings at our authentic student conference

Our Neuroscience with Artificial Intelligence degree combines the study of the brain with the power of AI. From exploring brain structure, behaviour, disease, and nervous system function to developing in-demand skills in programming, machine learning, data science, and algorithms, you’ll discover how AI is transforming neuroscience through complex data analysis, improved diagnosis, and ground breaking discoveries.

Neuroscience concepts are embedded throughout all levels of study, including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuropathology. In your first year, you’ll also build a strong foundation in core computer science topics that underpin artificial intelligence, such as programming, computer systems, and algorithm design and analysis. Building on this foundation, you’ll study key areas of artificial intelligence and data science in modules taught by Computer Science experts. Topics include data science techniques, computational intelligence, and machine learning applications, equipping you with knowledge of current methods and emerging research. You’ll apply these skills across a range of fields, with a particular focus on neuroscience.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Course Modules

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.