Chemistry

Chemists play a vital role in tackling key societal challenges, including sustainability, health, energy and protecting the environment. To ensure our graduates can apply their chemistry, our course places problem solving, communication, and project management at the core of what we do. Taught by world-class researchers, our students gain both the academic knowledge and practical laboratory skills needed to be a professional chemist in a wide range of careers.

• Benefit from outstanding teaching – 100% of our students agreed the course is stimulating; they were challenged to achieve; built on skills and gained skills for the future. 94% of students said staff were good at explaining and that the subject is engaging (NSS, 2023).

• Equip yourself for successful employment in a competitive job market – our focus on practical, professional skills means you graduate primed to enter the workplace.

• Benefit from award-winning teaching in small groups and be inspired by staff who are world-leading researchers.

• Hone your practical problem solving skills in our newly-refurbished laboratories, kitted out with the latest analytical instrumentation.

• Our tutorial system ensures that you receive the support and guidance you need to reach your full potential.

• 70% of assessment is based on coursework.

• Experience chemistry in the real world and boost your employability by taking a placement, work-based project in your final year, or working alongside PhD and post-doctoral researchers in our high specification laboratories.

• Graduate with in-demand skills for a range of career paths, from research and development in the pharmaceutical industry and lab-based roles in the food and energy industries, to positions in the science, engineering, healthcare, environmental or technology sectors.

• Accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the professional body representing chemistry in the UK.

• A diverse and respectful place in which to work and study is fundamental to everything we do.