Natural Sciences with professional placement or study abroad

This course is for you if you love science and want to study more than one science subject at university.

Our natural sciences degree is highly-flexible, allowing you to tailor your studies to your interests and strengths. You can choose to broaden your course further by adding units from additional subjects such as management, education, psychology or mathematics. Equally, if you decide your interests fit better within a single science subject, you may be able to transfer to biology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology or physics after year one.

We understand the need to graduate with the skills sought after by employers. Our degree will allow you to explore new areas of science and apply what you’ve learnt in practical and relevant ways. Employers will value your ability to bring problem-solving skills from a variety of angles. Recent graduates have gone on to work at BMW, Evotec and Deloitte and in roles such as Business Transformation Analyst, Research Scientist and Site Chemist.

Pathways

When you start your course, you can shape your degree to your interests by choosing a combination of two main subjects based on your previous qualifications. You will follow your own path, developing lab skills and an understanding of the interdisciplinary relationship between the core sciences. You can choose two main subjects from this list:

• Biology

• Biochemistry

• Chemistry

• Environmental Science (from Year 2, on the BSc only)

• Pharmacology (as a main subject on the BSc only, and a minor subject on the MSci only)

• Physics

You'll specialise in one of your main subjects in your final year. These two can be complemented by modules from an additional subject, choices include:

• A third science

• Management

• Education

• Psychology

• Mathematics

Note that not all main subject combinations are possible, so biology can't be combined with biochemistry, physics can't be combined with pharmacology or biochemistry, and pharmacology can't be combined with environmental science.

If you want a more in-depth study experience, you could consider applying for our MSci Natural Sciences course.

Specialist facilities

At Bath, you’ll learn alongside single-honours students in the subjects you choose, so you'll be able to access all the specialised facilities offered by that department, giving you a great depth of practical experience. Depending on your chosen subjects, you will have access to a range of well-equipped undergraduate teaching laboratories, characterisation facilities (including NMR, mass spectrometry, diffraction, chromatography and microscopy), and our high-performance computing facilities.