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Honours (3rd, 4th and 5th years) In the Honours years you will have the choice from a number of options, depending on the degree (MChem or BSc) you finally choose to take. These include opportunities to go on industrial placement and to take part in a research project.


Teaching Teaching is delivered primarily through lectures, laboratories and tutorials. Lectures are supported by small group tutorials and students very quickly feel that they are valued and become an integral part of the School. All of our lecture courses have web-based support materials and additional teaching support is given in selected topics for example mathematics, as we recognise that there is a wide diversity in the background of the students entering our chemistry courses. All laboratory classes are held in new state-of-the-art facilities opened in Summer 2010.


Study outwith St Andrews The School of Chemistry will assist students in obtaining eight- to thirteen-month (most commonly twelve-month) placements in industry in leading research laboratories in the UK, Europe and North America. Typically, you will join a research and development group within a company and receive a salary for the duration of your placement. It is also possible for the placement to be carried out in an academic institution. For more information on European or North American Exchanges, see pages 20-21.


Careers St Andrews Chemistry graduates are highly employable. Chemistry graduates have never been more in demand and they are keenly sought by major companies but there are also exciting opportunities in a new generation of innovative grassroots companies. Of course our chemists also enter diverse fields such as management, accountancy, marketing, and teaching, as employers recognise the quality of the training encountered in a Chemistry degree.


Please see page 42 for details of the University’s Careers Centre.


Recent Chemistry graduates from St Andrews have gone on to find success in a wide variety of careers in industry and business including (amongst many others):


• Professional chemists in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries


• Management consultants • Teachers • Forensic scientists • Various careers in the food industry (including brewing) • Marketing and advertising • Patent lawyers • Journalism and the media • Accountants •


Investment bankers


For example, one of our most recent graduates is an Assistant Chemist for the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, another is an Ice Cream Technologist for Unilever, while a third is a Process Engineer for Shell. Of those who graduated the previous year, one is Scottish Sales Manager for Brit Poly Industries, another is working as a commercial underwriter for ACSure Insurance and another is a trainee chartered accountant with Cook & Co.


Special (second year) Chemistry class outside the Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Irvine Building – Spring 1946


“The chemical industry is one of the most important and diverse in the world, this is the main aspect that attracted me into this degree. You are taught a wide range of exciting skills in Chemistry, from drug design and development to the synthesis of the everyday chemicals which we take for granted but could not live without, while the whole time giving you the knowledge you need to be the discoverer of the next big thing!”


Steve (Sunderland, Tyne & Wear)


Chemistry


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