Chemistry with a Year in Industry

About this programme

Our Chemistry with a Year in Industry BSc will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, with 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. This programme adds a further, optional year’s professional internship to our Chemistry BSc. Our Chemistry BSc with a Year in industry course integrates a comprehensive grounding in core chemistry principles with the skills and understanding to apply this in a broad range of contexts, drawing from active chemical and biomedical research and practice at King’s, and leading to many career options . To take the Year in Industry, you need to meet and maintain a grade threshold and to be successful in securing a year’s professional internship offered by major companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, or in finance, banking, management and law, and smaller organisations such as biotech companies. We help prepare you for these competitive year-long placements by providing support from King’s Career Services, a Chemistry academic Year in Industry lead and a ded