Our Biological Sciences degree course will teach you the fundamentals of biology and provide you with plenty of opportunity to practice. Your practice-based learning will include performing lab and field techniques and procedures and writing academic and industry relevant reports, undertaking research based on your own ideas as part of a team in the second year, presenting the outcomes of that research at a student conference at the end of that year, writing up research papers and proposals, and finishing with an individual research project in the final year of the course.

If you so choose to specialise in one of our four pathways, your specialisation will be noted on your BSc (Honours) certificate.

Throughout your studies, you will be prepared to succeed in your chosen professional field, whether that is as an ecologist, or a clinical scientist, or a researcher, or a data analyst. The course will also prepare you to pursue further studies towards a masters or a PhD.

Pathways

This Biological Sciences degree offers you the flexibility to choose specialist modules in your second and third years depending on your interest.

Upon successful completion of the BSc Biological Sciences degree, you will be equipped to pursue a wide range of careers in biology related professions and research in the public and private sectors, including teaching and research in academia. These could be:

• working as an ecologist for an ecological consultancy
• a conservation or animal behaviour specialist in a conservation charity or a zoo
• a clinical or laboratory geneticist, a clinical study manager, or a genetic counsellor
• a computational genomics and data scientist
• biotechnologist or a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry