MSc Analytical Science for Industry

COURSE OVERVIEW

This master’s programme aims to provide highly employable analytical scientists who not only have a thorough understanding of the key techniques within the discipline, but also have successfully completed an extended project either set in an industrial context or carried out in the laboratories of one of our industrial partners. This course is a postgraduate master’s degree (either full-time or part-time) with a 30 week project, either as a placement in industry or at Keele with industrial input. 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.

HOW YOU'LL BE ASSESSED

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.

Further specialised analytical instrumentation can be found within the research laboratories either at Keele University (e.g. the research Analytical Science Laboratories, the Birchall Centre, which comprise various state-of-the-art equipment such as several mass-spectrometers, an atomic absorption spectrometer with graphite furnace, numerous chromatography-based instrumentations, a near-IR spectrometer) or within the premises of the industrial partners.

CAREERS

The programme will enable all students to evidence professional experience which will significantly raise their employability potential.