Program Overview

MSci Microbiology

Overview

Gain invaluable research skills and experience through our four-year course and achieve an undergraduate master's award alongside your BSc.

Key Features

• Study abroad
• Accredited course

Duration and Entry

• Duration: 4 years
• Year of entry: 2025
• UCAS course code: 7A22 / 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

Develop your research skills with an integrated master's degree, making you more attractive to future employers in both academia and industry. Understand how microbes cause disease on a biochemical, physiological and genetic level, and how we can exploit their capabilities in genetic engineering, biotechnology and food production. Learn lab skills and techniques that are widely used in biomedical research and biotechnology.

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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