Chemistry, MChem (Hons)

Chemistry profoundly influences our world, from the materials we create to the medicines we use, playing a pivotal role in addressing global challenges like climate change and disease eradication. Our MChem and BSc programmes share a flexible structure, allowing students to transfer between them in the first or second year with guidance provided throughout. Teaching is grounded in cutting-edge research through lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions in modern laboratories equipped with advanced analytical tools, enabling hands-on experience from the outset.In later years, students tailor their studies to specific interests, undertaking optional modules and an individual research project. The MChem offers in-depth training for professional chemists, fostering transferable skills for diverse careers. Course details, including modules across years—building foundational skills in Year 1, advancing core chemistry in Year 2, exploring options in Year 3, and culminating in a Year 4 research project—may change; confirm on www.uea.ac.uk.

Year 1 will develop your scientific skills, studying topics in Bonding, Structure and Periodicity, Carbon-based Compounds, Energetics and Spectroscopy to give you a solid basis on which you will build the rest of your degree. Alongside lectures and tutorials there is an emphasis on practical work, carried out across the well-equipped teaching laboratory, the instrumentation lab and the IT suite. In Year 2 you will develop your knowledge of the core areas of chemistry, such as Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, while honing your practical skills and allowing you to choose optional modules suited to your developing strengths and interests. In Year 3 you will be able to choose further optional modules and take an advanced practical course, giving you experience of a range of research laboratories. Year 4 involves an extended research project, where you will work with one of the School’s renowned research groups, as well as studying Master’s level modules in chemistry.