Program Description

This specialist course has been designed to prepare you for the growing demands of the healthcare sector and pharmaceutical industry. As well as essential chemistry topics, you'll study specialist topics such as pharmacokinetics, toxicology and drug design. You'll learn to use industry-standard commercial software and spend your final year working on your own research project.

The course is accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry, which means that you can acquire a range of skills and knowledge that employers look for as you work independently, in teams and on a range of projects.

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 fully meeting the academic criteria for Chartered Chemist (CChem).