Teachers convey the exciting challenges chemists face and the importance of continuous discovery to our daily lives.
Why Chemistry with Teaching at Strathclyde?
Ranked 4th in the UK for Chemistry (The Guardian University Guide 2025)
Combine a Royal Society of Chemistry-accredited MChem course with the education theory and classroom experience required for recognition by the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
Study a dual-accredited course at a higher level than anywhere else in the UK.
Opportunities to move between careers in secondary education and the chemical industry.
Benefit from AstraZeneca and GSK bursary scheme for chemistry undergraduates.
Your Career
Most graduates follow the career path of a secondary teacher but you can also compete successfully for jobs in all branches of the chemical industry. There are also opportunities for chemists in other areas such as national and local government services, in hospitals and in education at all levels.
Recent graduate job roles include:
Industrial chemist
Research scientist
Scientific communication specialist
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
The following entry points are available for this course:
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
Historical entry grades data is not currently available for University of Strathclyde - we are working with them to try and make it available soon - learn more.
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
For further information on tuition fees, additional costs and funding for this programme, please view the "Fees and funding" section on the programme website.
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