Foundation Year
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.
International Students
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https:kuic.keele.ac.uk
Human Biology
Human Biology is offered within combined honours programmes only. Human Biology programmes explore the physiology of the body’s major systems, human health, disease and the relationship between the human body and the environment.
Why choose a combined honours Human Biology courses
Professional accreditation pathway is available
Human Biology ranked Top 10 in England (NSS 2025, broad-based universities)
Develop your practical skills in our state-of-the-art David Attenborough Laboratory
Build practical, analytical, laboratory and research skills applicable to various careers
The programme explores the core areas of human biology, physiology, and anatomy, whilst equipping you with the essential laboratory skills required for future work in bioscience.
During your studies you will have access to a range of facilities and equipment, including virtual reality headsets, brain stimulation devices, and our state-of-the-art [Central Science Laboratories](https:www.keele.ac.ukstudyfacilitiescentralscienceslaboratories).
About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.
We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.
Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.
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