Chemistry with Professional Placement

Why choose Kingston

• This degree is accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

• You’ll have the opportunity to have a one-year work placement. This will give you valuable experience and help prepare you for a career in chemistry.

• Kingston’s state-of-the-art laboratories include networked computers for each workspace, which are newly refurbished through a £6 million investment.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About the course
Do you want to be involved in making positive changes to the world? This could be the course for you. Chemistry affects every aspect of our lives, from clothing to medicines that help millions of people. It plays an integral part in solving global challenges, such as food security, plastic pollution, developing alternative energies, and synthesising new medicines and materials.

Chemistry at Kingston offers knowledge and skills relevant to industry, research, and teaching. You’ll gain practical skills in our laboratories, broaden your knowledge of environmental chemistry, and develop the academic and professional skills valued by employers.

Through optional modules, you can tailor this degree to your interests and career goals. An individual project enables you to investigate a chosen area in depth.

We have recently updated our modules to enhance student-centred teaching and align course content with industry needs.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Graduates work in areas such as research and development, analytical chemistry and teaching.

Example modules

– Chemical Foundations: From Atoms to Pharmaceuticals.
– Chemical Frontiers: Quantum, Inorganic and Environmental Chemistry.
– Organic and Medicinal Chemistry.

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Teaching methods include lectures, workshops and practical classes. Theory work is backed up by independent or group-based practical study.

Assessment typically comprises of exams and coursework, including practical exercises and in-course tests. Projects are assessed by practical work, presentation of results and a written report.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

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