ANALYTICAL SCIENCE FOR INDUSTRY - MSC at Keele University

As a student on the programme, you will benefit from our research expertise and our links with industries that provide the foundation for work placement opportunities.

All students on this MSc will undertake a 30 week placement with an industrial context, either in Keele University’s laboratories or at the industrial partner’s premises, which will ultimately boost your employability skills.

The focus of this master's degree is very much on each student acquiring the scientific knowledge, the technical skills and the wide range of professional skills to enable them to start their career working with confidence in an industrial or international laboratory context.

This one-year master’s programme (if full-time) aims to provide highly employable graduates who not only have a broad education in analytical sciences but also in the industrial context (commercial awareness and IP matters; science and technology transfer; entrepreneurship), together with a theoretical and practical understanding of the selected analytical techniques used in industry.

AIMS OF THE COURSE

Students on the MSc Analytical Science for Industry programme will benefit from the expertise of staff at Keele in analytical chemistry, analytical biochemistry, environmental analysis and forensic analysis, as well as from the distinctive scientific and analytical interests of the industrial partners. The programme is delivered in two stages (if full-time): the first semester comprises study of modules at Keele while for the second and third semesters, students undertake extended industrial project work either at Keele or with an industrial partner in the UK.

In addition to the development of discipline-specific research and technical skills, students will be supported in enhancing key professional and employability skills through developing critical thinking, innovation, reflective writing, autonomous learning and written and oral presentation skills: all vital skills for future employment, lifelong learning and continued professional development irrespective of the student’s chosen career path.

The focus of the MSc Analytical Science for Industry programme is learning through research and the substantial ‘hands-on’ research training with industrial partnership makes this a distinctive course in the UK Higher Education Sector. Plus, the students can choose between either industrially-based research projects or Keele-based research projects with industrial input. The programme title encompasses the distinctive conjunction of industrial context for analytical science.