Career opportunities
Why a career in Chemistry?
Chemistry underpins every aspect of our modern lives, from the medicines, materials and fuels we use daily, all the way through to the agrochemicals that provide us with the food that sustains our society.
This MSc courseprovides graduates with a strong grounding in the knowledge of these key chemical processes, as well as both the transferrable and specific skills needed for careers that spanmany fields.
Our graduates therefore have excellent employment prospects, and havegone on to become:
- Directors;
- Researchers;
- Research Scientists
- Chemists.
Our graduates have secured roles in organisations such as:
- Unilever Research;
- GlaxoSmithKline;
- Astro Zeneca;
- University of Oxford;
- ICI Pharmaceuticals.
Many of our master’s students also progress to PhD study. Several of our PhD graduates have taken up postdoctoral research positions in the UK or overseas, and others have chosen careers in academia or moved into industry.