Biology (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

Throughout the Biology (Hons) degree offered at University of Portsmouth you'll get the skills you need to turn your curiosity and love of nature into a career that matters.

Career opportunities

As the scientific study of life and living organisms, biology covers a huge variety of sub-disciplines – from ecology to genetics, botany to zoology – and everything in between.

This means that there's a wide range of sectors and industries you can work in with a biology degree, so there will always be a demand for your skills.

On this BSc (Hons) Biology degree, you’ll start the course with key biological theories, before being able to shape it to your interests and choose from specialist areas like ecology and habitat surveying, environmental conservation, microbiomes, enzyme kinetics, genomics, or gene organisation and regulation.

You'll develop problem-solving, communication and numeracy skills alongside technical skills, and in your final year, you’ll have the opportunity to investigate a research question for your honours project. 

Once you graduate, you’ll have the knowledge and practical skills needed to work in areas including research, biotech, consultancy, teaching and journalism. You could also continue your studies to postgraduate level, such as on our MSc Applied Aquatic Biology, MSc Biotechnology or MRes Science.