Master of Science in Chemistry Kings College London, UK

The four-year Chemistry MSci degree will give you a theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry in the modern world. The course is delivered within a research-enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating practical methods throughout.

In your final year of the MSci, you’ll explore your interests with a six-month research project in our state-of-the-art labs. The course is designed to train the next generation of articulate, flexible chemists for a wide variety of careers starting with chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries and extending to wide careers such as finance, law and media

Key benefits

• Research-enriched teaching delivered by internationally renowned scientists and researchers.
• Includes a major six-month project in one of our research groups.
• Designed to give graduates flexibility to develop a career in the growing areas of biotech and nanotechnology, chemical biology and biomedical research.
• Fully integrated laboratory facilities in the heart of London.
• Includes an opportunity to transfer to a Study Abroad pathway and spend either an additional year, or a semester of your fourth year, studying at a partner institution.

This course provides you with a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of chemistry and prepares you for a professional life in the ever-changing environment of 21st century chemistry. To achieve these goals, the course integrates the teaching of chemistry foundations with applications of chemistry using examples taken from the very broad range of chemical and biomedical research and practice at King’s.

The course starts with coverage of the principles of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry, with additional maths to ensure you can successfully handle advanced physical and computational chemistry. This also incorporates an integrated laboratory course that brings together the different strands of chemistry and applies them to a range of chemical systems.

In your third year, you will choose from a range  of specialised modules in order to investigate particular aspects of the application of chemical principles to contemporary global and industrial challenges. Short research projects may also be available as part of the Research Methods module. Your fourth year will be dominated by a six-month research project in one of our Research groups at King’s to give you the opportunity to experience and test your research potential.

Our academics have expertise in a number of research areas, including spectroscopic and computational methods, materials science and nanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences and analytical, green and sustainable chemistry.