Program Overview

BSc Life Sciences with Industrial/Professional Experience

Overview

Gain a year of workplace experience in the UK or overseas to improve your employability through our four-year course.

Key Features

• Industrial experience
• Field trips
• Accredited course

Duration and Entry

• Duration: 4 years
• Year of entry: 2025
• UCAS course code: C105 / Institution code:M20

Entry Requirements

• Typical A-level offer: AAA-AAB including specific subjects
• Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB-ABC including specific subjects
• Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABB-ABC including specific subjects
• Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36-35 points overall with 6, 6, 6 to 6, 6, 5 at HL, including specific requirements

Course Details

Course Overview

Spend the third year of your degree gaining valuable workplace experience to enhance your CV. Choose from placements with partner organisations in the UK and overseas. Take a variety of units in Year 1 before choosing an area to specialise in for the remainder of your studies.

A Study Experience that Makes a Difference

We place social responsibility at the heart of your learning which means you can take advantage of unique ways to make a difference while studying with us, through your course or through extra-curricular activities.

• Complete our Ethical Grand Challenges to learn how you can create a better world and become more socially responsible.
• Work with an external organisation to tackle real-world sustainability problems through our University Living Lab.
• Discover subjects that broaden your horizon with our interdisciplinary learning opportunities.

Every course at Manchester contributes towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, so no matter what you're studying you'll be playing an active role in the protection of people and planet.

You will explore the following goals in your course:

• Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Careers

80% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course.

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