Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Chemistry (with a Year in Industry or Research) (F107)

This BSc Chemistry degree offers students a broad education in chemistry and provides them with the skills to succeed in a range of professions. This degree provides solid training in chemistry and equips students with key transferable skills. They will spend their first two years learning the core subjects that all chemists need to know. Topics include trends in the periodic table, carbonyl group chemistry and chemical kinetics. Students will be taught by internationally leading experts through a combination of lectures, lab classes, workshops and tutorials.

The work placement in the third year gives students the opportunity to gain industrial experience as well as the chance to apply their knowledge and skills to real-life situations. Recent host companies have included GSK, Unilever and Procter & Gamble.

In the final year students will study more advanced topics influenced by the cutting-edge chemistry taking place around them. Additionally, if students are interested in teaching as a career, University of Reading's offer a school-based project in the final year. Students spend one day a week for two terms working alongside both teachers and pupils on an individual project. This project gives them the necessary experience for teacher training applications and helps develop their professional skills for careers which involve working with people.

Reading has a dedicated placements officer who is able to advise on career options, CVs and letters of application, as well as to help students find a placement. Reading has previously sent students to companies such as Coty (Rimmel), Dow Corning and GSK. Students have also been placed at foreign research institutions such as the University of Zaragoza, Aarhus University, the University of South Australia and NASA.