Neuroscience (Hons) Queen Mary University of London

Overview

Throughout this Neuroscience (Hons) BSc degree from Queen Mary University of London you’ll be taught by leading experts in every discipline, and have access to the labs, IT resources and libraries of each school.

The Neuroscience (Hons) programme offered at Queen Mary University of London will help you build a strong foundation in biomedical science, including neuroanatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and pharmacology. In the final year, you’ll choose from modules covering stem cells, the repair and regeneration of the nervous system, perspectives on brain disorders and cognitive neuroscience.

Final-year students can undertake their own laboratory-based research project or work with an existing research group at Queen Mary.

Career opportunities:

Neuroscience provides an ideal background for medicine or dentistry, as you will have studied a wide range of biomedical subjects.

The 19 highest-ranked students from our Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics programmes are guaranteed an interview for the five-year A100 Medicine MBBS degree at Queen Mary University of London. For the top seven ranked students, there is a guaranteed interview for the five year A200 BDS dentistry programme. Students are selected at the end of the second year on the basis of an aggregate of academic ranking (50%) and UCAT score (50%) and start the programme after they have completed their final year. The top five of these students will also be considered for the four-year A101 MBBS Graduate Entry Programme.

Other careers

Our Neuroscience graduates go on to a wide variety of careers:

• some pursue a career in neuroscience and pharmaceutical research, within industry or the public sector
• some continue their studies and research at Masters or PhD level
• others transfer their skills to careers in fields including media, technology and management.