Program Description

The BSc Chemistry with a Year in Industry course gives you a great opportunity to build experience and confidence in applying your chemistry skills in a science-focused business environment.

You will spend 12 months between your second and third years on a work placement, paying reduced fees for the year you are away from campus. You will have the opportunity to earn a salary during your placement, and students are often offered a graduate level job with their employer, to start as soon as they have finished their degree.

Previous University of Sheffield chemistry students have worked at businesses such as GSK, Unilever, and even companies overseas. Unlike our MChem Chemistry with a Year in Industry course, this BSc course gives you the freedom to try a role outside the lab, such as communications, market research or business development.

We cover a wide range of topics based on the latest concepts and findings in chemistry, and the skills and expertise that chemistry graduates can offer industry and society. These include:

• environmental and sustainable chemistry
• biological and medicinal chemistry
• advanced materials and nanotechnology
• astrochemistry
• computational chemistry

Accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry for partially meeting the academic criteria for Chartered Chemist (CChem).