Our Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc course will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry. You’ll explore the different strands of chemistry and apply them to biological and biomedical systems - all under the guidance of our research-led scientists. Alongside this, you’ll gain valuable work experience with a year-long internship at a major UK company. By the end of your studies, you’ll be an articulate, flexible and biomedically-aware chemist, ready for a career in a wide variety of industries, from chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries to finance, law and media.

Key benefits

• The parent Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc course is accredited by the Royal Society for Chemistry.
• The only London university to combine Chemistry and Biomedicine, taking advantage of King’s strengths in biomedical research.
• Enhance your employability with a Year’s Professional Placement.
• You’ll benefit from research-enriched teaching from internationally renowned scientists and researchers.
• You’ll have access to our state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, located in the heart of London.

Our course adds a further, optional year’s professional internship to our standard three-year Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc. To take the Year’s Professional Placement, students need their second year grades to be at an average of 60% or higher; and to be successful in securing a year’s professional internship offered by major companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and in finance, banking, management, biotech and law. We help prepare you for these competitive year-long placements by providing support from King’s Career Services, an academic placement lead and a dedicated faculty placement coordinator.

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.