Chemistry with Biomedicine with a Year in Industry

Our Chemistry with Biomedicine with a Year in Industry BSc course is designed to give you 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 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 research project. This enables you to integrate advanced knowledge from across your years of study and carry out novel research in the Department of Chemistry, as well as for the Health Faculties and hospitals or even the Francis Crick Institute, a King’s partner and global leader in biomedical research.

Key benefits

• 8th in the UK for Chemistry (Times Higher Education, QS 2025 subject rankings).

• One of very few universities to offer a degree in Chemistry with Biomedicine – including the only London university to do so.

• Enhanced by the opportunity for a Year in Industry, where students apply to nationally competitive year-long internships in the wide variety of professions open to graduates from traditional chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries through to business, finance, law and more.

• Benefit from our strong links to King’s world-class Health Faculties and teaching hospitals, and strengths in biomedical research.

• Career flexibility: you’ll gain a wide range of skills to use in the growing fields of biomedical engineering, biotech, chemical biology and biological and biomedical research.

• 6th in the UK for producing the most employable graduates (Times Higher Education Graduate Employability rankings 2024/5).

• Explore emerging fields and cutting-edge innovations in chemistry through modules informed directly by King's scientists' pioneering research.

Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/cchemistry-with-biomedicine-with-year-in-placement

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

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