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This is your future

Chemistry

Get ready to join a global community that helps brilliant thinkers turn inspiration into reality, encouraging innovation, experimentation and creative thinking.

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Congratulations on your offer

Choose Manchester and follow in the footsteps of seven Chemistry Nobel Prize winners.

Our Alumni have changed the world, and we continue to be at the forefront of the subject, exploring new ways chemistry can be used to provide a healthy, sustainable future. 

Join our department and study a broad and exciting science that underpins one of the largest industrial sectors in the UK.

Meet your Deputy Head of Department

Prof Eriko Takano welcomes you to Manchester

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Top five

Ranked top five for Chemistry in the UK and top 20 globally (QS World Rankings by Subject, 2024).

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Membership

Graduates are eligible for membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Learn in our world-class teaching labs, preparing you for a career in industry or research.

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Nobel Prize

Follow in the footsteps of seven Manchester Chemistry Nobel Prize winners associated with this department.

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Your learning experience

Watch our Chemistry sustainability talk

 

Discover how plants have inspired synthetic chemists at Manchester to harness visible-light to drive pioneering chemical reactions, enabling the manufacture of these essential chemicals in a greener and more sustainable way with Dr Aaron Trowbridge and Dr Giacomo Crisenza.

 

Join Harry for a tour around the Chemistry labs

 

Follow PhD student Harry around the undergraduate Chemistry labs and learn more about what life as a Chemistry student will be like.

Practical teaching in our laboratories

Dr Carl Poree discusses the key principles behind practical laboratory teaching on our undergraduate Chemistry degrees.

Supporting your learning

Dr Nick Weise and current students discuss the PASS programme on the Chemistry degree at Manchester, and how it supports students while they are here with us.

Research in Chemistry

Dr Louise Natrajan and students explain the opportunities to gain research experience whilst studying an undergraduate Chemistry degree.

VIDEO: Explore our teaching

This short video will give you an insight into the kind of materials that will be taught in the first year on our Chemistry courses.

A final year project

Gain insight into the final year chemistry projects from Dukula.

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Student support

Support on your course

Chemistry at Manchester is an active community that welcomes students from all over the world.

You’ll make friends through our society activities and get support in your studies from older students through our peer-assisted student support scheme.

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Your health, wellbeing and safety

At Manchester, we offer all our students support and encouragement to stay happy and healthy at university.

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What is PASS?

Find out more about our Chemistry Peer Assisted Study Scheme with one of our PASS leaders.

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Cost of Living

Here's how we support current students with their finances while they're studying with us.

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Scholarship Ceremony

Hear from previous recipients of our scholarships at last years Scholarship Ceremony.

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Student life at Manchester

VIDEO: Why I Chose Chemistry

Four undergraduates talk about their experience of choosing Chemistry at The University of Manchester.

ChemSoc

Enhance your student experience by joining ChemSoc, a society for all Chemists at Manchester. Attend lectures and workshops, socials and sporting events. 

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Our student ambassador Ria took over our Instagram to share their experience as a student in the Department.

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Supporting your future

A chemistry degree gives you a broad range of career options, from research and development at the forefront of science to working in the media.

Data from our graduate outcomes survey (15 months after the course, students graduating in 2021):

  • Average salary: £28,700
  • Making a difference: 85% of employed graduates feel their work is meaningful

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My graduate journey - 2 years on

Read about Nisshanth's experiences of working at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre as a Deposition Coordinator.

Read Nisshanth's blog : Alumni Profile: Nisshanth Raj Dharmaraj.

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My graduate journey - 4 years on

James talks about his next steps after graduating from the University and his new job as an Energy Consultant. 

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My graduate journey - 10 years on

Philippa has gone from studying Chemistry to a graduate scheme, and now works as a Plant Manager.

Read Philippa's blog : Alumni Profile - Philippa Di Tondo.

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