Career opportunities
You'll be prepared for a research-related career at academic institutions, or research-based companies, or in science writing or any other profession where research experience is valued, for example in funding organisations or certain branches of patent law.
You will receive intense training and be given the opportunity to take ownership of a research project, demonstrate professionalism in all aspects of your work, learn to operate in teams and to communicate your science in efficient and audience-adequate ways. This will enable you to perform to a high standard on PhD or job interviews, being able to influence panels through substantiated descriptions of your achievements. The transferable skills you develop are designed to help facilitate your career progression.
Most students go on to undertake PhD studies at Manchester or elsewhere, or they continue their career in the industrial sector, where the rapid recent expansion of biomedical science and the ever-increasing demand for advanced biological analyses and experimentation at all levels of complexity emphasises the requirement for suitably trained research graduates.