Biomedical Science (Hons)

Overview

Biomedical Science (Hons) at Liverpool John Moores University  is highly vocational with a strong element of work-related learning. For those students who are successful in their application to take the applied biomedical science route, over the three years of your degree, this provides an opportunity to find out what it’s really like to work in a pathology lab. 

For those students who do not take a work experience placement, the course provides many opportunities to develop relevant skills. Whichever route you take, you will gain invaluable hands-on experience, practising skills you have learnt during the course and boosting your employability, giving you a head start when you eventually enter the competitive graduate job market.

Career

Approximately one third of our graduates decide to pursue careers in the pathology and public health laboratory services, providing diagnostic, prognostic, monitoring and other support for patients. Others enter the pharmaceutical industry to work in research and drug development or other laboratory-based careers. Clinical trials fieldwork is also becoming increasingly popular, as is sales and marketing for diagnostic and therapeutic products.

Graduates have entered the Health and Safety Executive, medical records and similar occupations. Some students also opt to do further qualifications, such as postgraduate medicine, teaching, specialised MSc programmes or research qualifications