Master of Science - Biomedical Science

This course offers students an ideal opportunity to enhance their career prospects in a range of specialist areas within biomedical science. Students will enrich and update their knowledge, gaining a postgraduate qualification which will help them achieve progression at work.

This IBMS-accredited course is carefully tailored to maximise students employability within bioscience and offers an unrivalled range of professional expertise and top-class facilities. Students will learn both practical and theoretical aspects of clinical chemistry, medical microbiology, cellular pathology, and haematology. It will offer students the chance to study a core MSc alongside a specialisation within different areas of biosciences.

This course is designed and tailored to students' preferred specialism in either of the following: Clinical Biochemistry and Toxicology, Health and Disease of Physiological Systems, Clinical Microbiology and Infectious disease control, and Immunology and Immunotherapy.

Students will learn about research methods and how to use diagnostics when detecting diseases or other medical conditions in order to assess potential treatments. Teaching will be based on lectures, seminars, workshops, independent web-based learning, and laboratory-based learning in UEL's state-of-the-art facilities. The broad field of learning also suits people who are simply interested in furthering their knowledge of the subject. The course can be worked around a full-time job and there are intermediate awards available - a Postgraduate Diploma and a Postgraduate Certificate.