Natural Sciences (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

The Natural Sciences (Hons)  course from Lancaster University  gives you a unique perspective of how they overlap, and as a result, you will develop a broad skills set including abilities in maths and statistics, critical analysis, reasoning, logic, solving complex problems, data handling, and project management, to name just a few. The confidence gained from working across multiple teams to understand their nuances and complexities is directly replicable in the workplace.

Career opportunities:

A Natural Sciences degree ensures that you graduate with a broad and multidisciplinary set of skills which means that you benefit from the widest range of career opportunities. The flexibility of the degree and the breadth of subjects that you can study allows you to transition into a career from any scientific discipline, whether it is in biology, chemistry, computing, engineering, mathematics, physics, environmental sciences, and many more. You are also in demand for non-science roles due to your mathematic and statistical abilities, as well as skills in critical analysis and reasoning, logic, solving complex problems, data handling, and project management, to name just a few transferable skills. As a result, you can chart a course to a career in almost any industry. Graduating from this programme, you can honestly say the opportunities are endless. The median starting salary of graduates from our Natural Sciences degrees is £29,000(HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024).

Here are just some of the roles that our BSc and MSci Natural Sciences students have progressed into upon graduating:

• Graduate Researcher – Centre for Global Eco-Innovation
• Nuclear Technical Advisor – Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
• Net Zero, Climate, and Environment Advisor – Government Office for Science
• Financial Modelling Analyst – KPMG
• Graduate Air Quality Consultant – AECOM
• Audit Associate – EY
• Trainee Healthcare Scientist – NHS
• Environmental Engineer – ARUP
• Senior Scientist Researcher – AstraZeneca
• Cloud Solution Architect – Vmware
• Research Assistant/PhD – University of Cambridge
• Hydrologist – Environment Agency