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Chemistry with a Year in Industry BSc

UCAS code: F101

Please note the course details including entry requirements and application deadlines apply to 2024 entry. Fees supplied apply to students entering King's in 2025. Details for 2025 entry will be published shortly, please check back for more details in the coming weeks.

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
4 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

The Chemistry with a Year in Industry BSc will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, with the opportunity for a year’s professional placement in a major UK company to allow you to test your training, and assess your career choices, in the workplace. This programme is delivered within a research-enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating practical methods throughout. It is designed to train the next generation of articulate, flexible chemists for a wide variety of careers starting with chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries and extending to wider careers e.g. finance, law and media.

Key benefits

  • Research-enriched teaching delivered by internationally renowned scientists and researchers.
  • Enhanced by the opportunity for a Year in Industry for which you apply to nationally competitive year-long internships in the wide variety of professions open to our graduates from traditional chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries through to business, finance, law and more.
  • Designed to develop graduates for flexible careers that apply chemical skills to a wide and changing range of challenges.
  • Fully integrated laboratory facilities in the heart of London.
  • 7th in the UK for employability (Times Higher Education Graduate Employability rankings 2023/4).

We are taught by academics who are experts in their respective fields, conducting world-leading research, in state-of-the-art facilities

Samer, Chemistry BSc

Employability

Our Chemistry graduates are in high demand because employers recognise the wide range of skills that they possess. We train Chemists to think logically and apply mathematical and practical techniques to solve real problems. Our ambition is to produce graduates who have a wider vision of the applications of chemistry for the coming decades and who are equipped for flexible careers to adapt to the changing global and national challenges facing Chemistry. Graduates from our course can be found in a range of sectors where they can exploit their skills and expertise including research, management, finance, medicine and law.

 

Destinations

Our graduates have found employment within roles like:

  • Scientist
  • Team Leader
  • Pharmacokineticist
  • Nuclear Safety Engineer
  • Industrial Chemist
  • Research Scientist Manager
  • Engineering Co-Ordinator
  • Policy Analyst
  • Senior Environmental Consultant
  • Water Engineer
  • Senior Manager Audit
  • Head Of Client Integration
  • Science Teacher
  • Head of Chemistry

They went to work for companies like: Pfizer Ltd, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Babcock, Rohm GmbH, Facebook UK, Greencore, Sandbag Climate Campaign, HSBC, BNP Paribas

Employability

Our Chemistry graduates are in high demand because employers recognise the wide range of skills that they possess. We train Chemists to think logically and apply mathematical and practical techniques to solve real problems. Our ambition is to produce graduates who have a wider vision of the applications of chemistry for the coming decades and who are equipped for flexible careers to adapt to the changing global and national challenges facing Chemistry. Graduates from our course can be found in a range of sectors where they can exploit their skills and expertise including research, management, finance, medicine and law.

 

Destinations

Our graduates have found employment within roles like:

  • Scientist
  • Team Leader
  • Pharmacokineticist
  • Nuclear Safety Engineer
  • Industrial Chemist
  • Research Scientist Manager
  • Engineering Co-Ordinator
  • Policy Analyst
  • Senior Environmental Consultant
  • Water Engineer
  • Senior Manager Audit
  • Head Of Client Integration
  • Science Teacher
  • Head of Chemistry

They went to work for companies like: Pfizer Ltd, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Babcock, Rohm GmbH, Facebook UK, Greencore, Sandbag Climate Campaign, HSBC, BNP Paribas

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
4 years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

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