Neuroscience with Integrated Placement Year (Hons) University of Nottingham

Overview

This Neuroscience with Integrated Placement Year (Hons) from University of Nottingham   covers concepts from the genome through to human based clinical neuroscience. 

MSci degrees are undergraduate-level courses which last for four years and have an integrated master's qualification. They are the equivalent to a BSc plus a master's level qualification. The MSci provides additional intensive laboratory research and the opportunity for you to add in industrial experience to enhance your future career prospects.   

Why choose this course?

• Tailor your course to your unique interests with a range of optional modules

• Study in one of the UK’s major teaching hospitals on a course with a strong human neurobiology and pharmacological emphasis

• Student feedback - excellent track record in student feedback on quality of teaching 

• Student support - a personal tutor assigned to you to provide academic and pastoral advice throughout the degree

• Employability - good record in the students securing employment or postgraduate education

• Capstone experience - in your final year, you can undertake a capstone project, applying your expertise to real-world challenges in a collaborative working group. Teaching is research-led, meaning you'll learn from academics actively working in cutting-edge research 

• Research and lab experience - Laboratory experience begins in term one. Be trained by academics who are active in real world research, giving you the skills necessary for your future career.

Careers

Graduates from this course have developed careers in scientific research in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. Other careers have included management, scientific writing, professions allied to medicine, teaching and graduate entry medicine.

Recent graduate destinations include:

• Axol Bioscience: laboratory production scientist

• Nielsen: neurophysiologist

• Ashfield Healthcare UK: recruitment executive

• Public Health England: healthcare scientist

• Cancer Research UK: clinical trial assistant

Accreditation

Accredited by the Royal Society of Biology.