Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year MChem (Hons)
University of Sheffield
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Master of Chemistry (with Honours) - MChem (H)

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Master of Chemistry (with Honours) - MChem (H)

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**The MChem Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year course gives you a great opportunity to build up your CV. You will spend your third year working at a leading organisation in the chemical industry, paying reduced fees for the year you are on placement.****Four years of industry-level experience and advanced study will give you the skills of a forward-thinking 21st century chemist, and take your career to the next level.**Take your chemistry skills to the next level with experience in a ...Read more


The MChem Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year course gives you a great opportunity to build up your CV. You will spend your third year working at a leading organisation in the chemical industry, paying reduced fees for the year you are on placement.


Four years of industry-level experience and advanced study will give you the skills of a forward-thinking 21st century chemist, and take your career to the next level.

Take your chemistry skills to the next level with experience in a real commercial lab environment – choose an MChem 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. And just like our Chemistry BSc, 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 astro-chemistry.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?

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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.

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25th
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18th
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100 - 95 = 5% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
5%
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100%
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Chemistry graduate salary at this uni
£23,000
UK Chemistry graduate salary
£22,000
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Entry requirements

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A level

A 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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Chemistry

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Biology
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Physics
40%
General Studies
8%
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