Chemistry with Year-Long Industry Experience (MChem)

From September 2026 this placement opportunity will be available through our core courses: MChem Chemistry, MChem Medicinal Chemistry and MChem Chemistry Digital Methods and Computational Modelling. Chemistry plays a key role in tackling some of the world’s biggest problems. It explores renewable energy and its storage, cleaner and more efficient processes for manufacturing chemicals, and medicines and treatments for disease. Chemistry at Southampton focuses on being part of a sustainable future. Our MChem Chemistry degree with year-long industry experience allows you to expand the breadth and depth of your skills. Our expert staff will help you to develop in-depth knowledge of core topics of chemistry while gaining extensive laboratory experience. You’ll use state of the art equipment in our range of laboratories. These include the single crystal diffraction lab, the mass spectrometry lab and a dedicated X-ray crystallography teaching facility. You'll do 2 research projects. The fir

Offers will be based on exams being taken at the end of S6. Subjects taken and qualifications achieved in S5 will be reviewed. Careful consideration will be given to an individual’s academic achievement, taking in to account the context and circumstances of their pre-university education. Please see the University of Southampton’s Curriculum for Excellence Scotland Statement (PDF) for further information. Applicants are advised to contact their Faculty Admissions Office for more information. UK students International students Other ways to qualify You might meet our criteria in other ways if you do not have the qualifications we need. Find out more about: skills you might have gained through work or other life experiences (otherwise known as recognition of prior learning ) Find out more about our Admissions Policy. Please contact our enquiries team if you're not sure that you have the right experience or qualifications to get onto this course. Email: enquiries@southampton.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)23 8059 5000

International students: £31,000 per year

UK students: £9,535 per year

UK/Home: £9,535 per year

International: £31,000 per year

September 2025

Apply via UCAS by (equal consideration deadline)

• Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom