Program Overview

MChem Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry

A flexible course with a wide range of modules taught by chemists, pharmacists, biologists, and medicinal chemists.

Key Features

• Scholarships available
• Accredited course

Duration and Year of Entry

• Duration: 4 years
• Year of entry: 2025

UCAS Course Code and Institution Code

• UCAS course code: F152
• UCAS institution code: M20

Entry Requirements

• Typical A-level offer: A*AA including specific subjects
• Typical contextual A-level offer: AAA including specific subjects
• Refugee/care-experienced offer: AAB including specific subjects
• Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 37 points overall with 7,6,6 at HL, including specific requirements

Overview

Gain strong foundation in core chemistry, supplemented by specialist knowledge of medicinal chemistry. Take course units that cover biochemistry, medicines, and drug discovery, and the major disease areas to complement your core chemistry studies. Gain considerable practical laboratory experience. Study at a university ranked 4th in the UK and 6th in Europe for Chemistry (QS World University Rankings 2024). We're among the most targeted universities by the UK's leading graduate employers (High Fliers Research 2024). This course is accredited by the RSC. It fulfills the academic requirements for Chartered Chem (CChem).

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 organization 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
• Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
• Goal 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
• Goal 13: Climate action

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