MSc Chemistry (Professional Practice or with placement)

You can take this accredited MSc Chemistry degree as a one-year full-time study option, or alternatively, you can undertake this course as a one-year full-time study with a year-long work placement for the MSc Chemistry (Professional Practice) route.Your satisfaction is very important to us so we make sure you're taught by experts - the Chemistry team is comprised of academic and support staff that are subject experts in organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry, who have won awards and recognition for this aspect of their work.As well as working and studying under the direction of world-leading pharmaceutical and medicinal science staff, you will gain hands-on experience in a variety of modern instrumentation including: multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (NMR), mass spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). You will be taught four core modules, two optional modules and you will conduct a research project. If you are a part-time student, you will continue to study the second year from the modules listed below.Scientists from Vectura deliver some of the module content. Other guest lecturers will also present their research to you from a variety of other companies and universities. This programme is delivered by a combination of traditional lectures, seminars and tutorials, together with laboratory classes and laboratory-based research projects.If you are a full-time student, you will have the opportunity to carry out a research project in a chemistry research group at Nottingham Trent University or with one of our industrial, academic or health sector partners. If you are a part-time student, you will normally conduct the research project in your own workplace.

You will need one of the following:A UK honours degree (minimum 2.2) or equivalent in a chemistry-related subject including forensic science, pharmacology and pharmacy.Applicants with relevant employment experience or other relevant qualifications will also be considered.