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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Full Time
SEP-25
4 Years
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Take your chemistry skills to the next level with experience in a real commercial lab environment – choose an BSc Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year at Sheffield and you’ll have the edge when it comes to a career in the industry.Sustainability modules are part of our core teaching, and you’ll learn about this right from the start. The first two years will be about the fundamental concepts and skills you need – eventually unlocking a wide range of optional modules later, including environmental, biological, medicinal, computational and astrochemistry.The whole of your third year will be spent on industrial placement, inside a chemistry based business environment. With first-hand experience of somewhere like GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, or overseas, you’ll begin to understand which direction your career could go – and maybe even secure a job for when you graduate.And then you’ll pour all that experience into your advanced study and research project in year four, when you’ll join a team working on new discoveries – before graduating, primed for an exciting career.
Why study this course?-
RSC accredited- this course is accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry for fully meeting the academic criteria for Chartered Chemist (CChem).-
Taught by the experts- most of the people teaching you will have first-hand experience of industry and business processes, and running spin-out companies.-
Hands-on experience- you’ll learn laboratory skills and techniques in your first and second year in our teaching labs. In your final year, you’ll work on a research project giving you independent research experience working on a real scientific problem. You’ll conduct experiments in our multi-million pound research labs, learning from our academic researchers.-
Sustainability focus- at Sheffield we have a major focus on sustainability. Sustainability modules are part of our core teaching in all our undergraduate courses from the start, and are also available as in-depth specialised options in year three.-
Summer research placement- we offer a guaranteed summer research placement if you meet the requirements of our Undergraduate Research Scholarship scheme.
Exam type
A levelA level:
AAB Grades / Points required
Scottish Advanced Higher:
B Grades / Points required
Access to HE Diploma:
D:36,M:9,P:0 Grades / Points required
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:
34 Grades / Points required
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017):
H2,H2,H2,H2,H2,H3 Grades / Points required
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
DD Grades / Points required
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
DDD Grades / Points required
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015):
B Grades / Points required
including Chemistry
in Chemistry + AAABB in Scottish Highers
Award of Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject covering sufficient Chemistry units, with 45 credits at Level 3, including 36 at Distinction and 9 at Merit. Applicants are considered individually and must provide a course syllabus
with 5 in Higher Level Chemistry
including Chemistry
in Applied Science + A in A Level Chemistry
in Applied Science including specific Chemistry units*(*BTEC required units include Applications of Inorganic Chemistry, Applications of Organic Chemistry, Industrial Chemical Reactions, Practical Chemical Analysis)
+ AA at A Level including Chemistry
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