Chemistry with Materials Chemistry with Foundation Year

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Chemistry with Materials Chemistry

Chemistry with Materials Chemistry at Keele combines the principles of chemistry with the study of materials and their real-world, practical applications in tackling global challenges, such as energy security. From discovering frontier topics guided by our world-leading researchers to applying key concepts in our sector-leading laboratories, you will develop the practical and professional skills - including data fluency and materials design - to pursue a career in the chemical and allied industries, as well as sectors outside physical sciences.

Why choose this course?

• Chemistry ranked No.1 in the UK with 96% of students expressing satisfaction with their course (NSS 2025, broad-based universities)*

• Gain hands-on access to specialist computational tools and research-grade instrumentation in our sector-leading laboratories

• Be career ready with core practical and professional employability modules embedded throughout the programme

• Apply your learning and skills to the modern problems at the forefront of materials science

• Your independent research project and literature review will also allow you to specialise in research field(s) in or relevant to materials chemistry

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

*We have compared the positivity ratings of all participating UK institutions using the NSS 2025 sector data to determine Keele's position relative to other broad-based universities (i.e. excluding specialist institutions and further education colleges).

Course Modules

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.