Chemistry with International Placement

Chemistry is the science at the heart of some of humanity's most pressing challenges: developing renewable energy sources, creating sustainable materials, eliminating disease, and ensuring food security for a growing global population. It is a discipline of extraordinary depth and practical impact, examining the composition, structure, and transformation of matter at the molecular and atomic level, and providing the fundamental scientific understanding without which engineering, biology, pharmacology, and environmental science cannot advance.

At the University of Warwick, this four-year, full-time degree with an international placement includes a sandwich year with work placement that gives you direct professional experience in a chemistry-related role abroad. You will develop the practical, analytical, numerical, and logical reasoning skills that chemistry demands, working across synthesis, spectroscopy, computational chemistry, and the physical and organic chemical foundations of the discipline. Warwick's chemistry department is one of the leading research centres in the UK, and the international placement component gives you a distinctive credential: the combination of academic excellence and real-world international professional experience is highly valued by employers across the chemical and related industries.

Chemistry graduates are among the most employable in science. The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, materials science, chemical engineering, petrochemicals, food and consumer goods, environmental agencies, and academic research are all common destinations. The international placement experience opens up particular opportunities in global companies and in research environments that operate across borders.

Postgraduate study in chemistry, chemical engineering, or a related field is a natural next step for those who wish to develop specialist expertise or pursue research.