**Build your connections and career with our accredited MChem Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year course. Gain fundamental knowledge of chemistry, spend a year working in industry, and complete a research project in one of our world-class research groups.** This accredited four-year MChem Chemistry with an Industrial Placement Year course will give you the industry-level experience and research skills needed for a successful career. In your first two years, you’ll focus on fundamental concepts in chemistry across organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. You’ll gain hands-on experience from the start of your degree, learning laboratory skills and techniques in our specialist teaching labs. You’ll have regular tutorials to delve deeper into the complex topics covered in lectures. These small group teaching sessions are led by your academic tutor in first year and subject experts in later years. In your second year, you’ll also have the opportunity to specialise by choosing optional modules that cover topics like sustainable chemistry, and biological and medicinal chemistry. The whole of your third year will be spent working at a leading organisation in the science industry on an industrial placement. Our students have secured placements with a range of organisations including AstraZeneca, EDF Energy, GSK and PepsiCo. You’ll gain experience of applying your knowledge of chemistry in a commercial environment. You’ll have distance learning material to work through, be assessed by your industry supervisor and produce a final report at the end of your placement. You’ll develop new skills, build up your CV and grow your network of connections; some students even come back with the offer of a job when they graduate. When you return to Sheffield in your fourth year, you’ll have the freedom to tailor your degree to your interests and aspirations through more in-depth optional modules, exploring topics such as materials chemistry, catalysis and chemistry of light. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your research skills, spending most of your final year working on your own research project as part of a team of research scientists. Working on a real scientific problem, you’ll conduct experiments in our state of the art research labs, learning from academic researchers who are experts in your chosen area of research. **Accreditation** Accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry for fully meeting the academic criteria for Chartered Chemist (CChem) **Why study this course?** * **Top 20 in the UK for Chemistry** - The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 * **1st in the Russell Group for learning opportunities, student voice, and assessment and feedback in chemistry** - National Student Survey 2025 * **Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) accredited course** - This course is accredited by the RSC for fully meeting the academic criteria for Chartered Chemist (CChem). * **Spend a full year on an industrial work placement** - Test out a career path, build up your CV and grow your network of contacts.
A Level: AAB | including Chemistry | Access to HE Diploma: 36 UCAS points | Access to HE Diploma: 9 UCAS points | Access to HE Diploma | 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. | GCSE/National 4/National 5 GCSE Maths grade 6/B | Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016): DD | in Applied Science + A in A Level Chemistry | International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme | 34, with 5 in HL Chemistry; 33, with 5 in HL Chemistry, and B in the Extended Essay | Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016): DDD | in Applied Science (Basic, Analytical & Forensic Science or Physical Science streams only) including specific Chemistry units. BTEC required units include Applications of Inorganic Chemistry, Applications of Organic Chemistry, Industrial Chemical Reactions, Practical Chemical Analysis. | Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017): H2H2H2H2H2H3 | including Chemistry
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