Natural Sciences

Natural sciences programmes are designed for students who want to engage seriously with more than one scientific discipline simultaneously, rather than committing to a single specialism from the outset. The natural sciences encompass physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and related fields, and the most interesting questions in science often lie at the boundaries between them. A natural sciences degree gives you the intellectual range to work across these boundaries and to combine the insights of different disciplines in ways that a conventional single-subject degree does not allow.

The University of Bath offers this three-year full-time natural sciences degree, drawing on Bath's considerable strength across the physical, chemical and biological sciences. You will combine subjects from across the sciences according to your interests and the programme's structure, developing genuine competence in more than one discipline while maintaining the rigour that each requires. Bath's strong research environment across the natural sciences means you are studying in a context where the disciplines you are exploring are actively investigated, and the curriculum reflects current scientific thinking.

The programme develops both the specialist technical knowledge and the broad scientific literacy that make natural scientists particularly adaptable.

Natural sciences develops the ability to think across disciplinary boundaries, to apply the methods and concepts of different sciences to related problems and to communicate scientific ideas to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. The breadth of the degree is itself a distinctive qualification in a world where many of the most pressing scientific challenges require interdisciplinary approaches.

Graduates from natural sciences programmes work in research, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, environmental science, data science, education, science communication, the civil service and a wide range of roles across the technology and knowledge economy. The degree is also an excellent foundation for postgraduate study in any of the component disciplines, and for doctoral research in interdisciplinary fields.