Course summary

The BSc Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year gives you a great opportunity to build up your CV. You will spend 12 months between your second and third years on a work placement, paying reduced fees for the year you are away from campus. 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 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.