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Biological Sciences with Placement Year, BSc, University of Sheffield

the United Kingdom

University of Sheffield

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BScFull-time4 yearsSeptemberGBP 9250 per year 0

About Biological Sciences with Placement Year, BSc - at University of Sheffield

Our four-year BSc gives you a unique level of flexibility, letting you tailor your degree to your interests and career goals. Whether your interests lie in organisms and the environment, biomedicine, or the molecular biosciences, or span all three, from your first year you'll have the freedom to choose the topics you want to study across the breadth of biology.

You'll also have the opportunity to do a year-long, paid work placement as part of your degree.

From year one, you'll choose which topics to study and which you avoid, so you're defining your degree and putting your skills and knowledge into place for a vibrant future.

You'll have access to modules across all scales of biological systems from biotechnology, cell biology, genetics, microbiology and biochemistry, to biomedicine, neuroscience, human health and disease, to biodiversity, evolution, sustainability and climate change. More than half of our biological science students are taking modules across this full spectrum of the biological sciences.

You'll have the chance to carry out your own research projects in the lab, where you can use the latest equipment to analyse stem cells, sequence DNA, image cells or landscapes. You might want to find out how organisms and populations grow or study proteins and enzymes.

Alternatively, you might choose to do field research projects in the Peak District National Park, or to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime field course in the UK or abroad. You can make the most of our links with the NHS, completing research on cancer and ageing in conjunction with the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

You can even choose to combine these areas.

A placement is a great opportunity to test out a career path and many students are offered a graduate-level job at the end. You'll pay reduced fees for the year you're on placement and you'll have the support you need from your tutor and the University.

Our students have found placements in industry, charities or government at organisations that include GSK, Pfizer, the Institute for Cancer Research, Microsoft Business Unit, West Yorkshire Police, the Environment Agency and the Field Studies Council. You could even apply your scientific knowledge and transferable skills to areas outside the bioscience industry - for example market research, communications or business development.

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Entry requirements

The A Level entry requirements for this course are:

AAB
including Biology and a second science

A Levels + additional qualifications: ABB, including Biology and a second science + B in the EPQ; ABB, including Biology and a second science + B in Core Maths
International Baccalaureate: 34, with 6,5 (in any order) in Higher Level Biology and a second science
BTEC Extended Diploma: (RQF) DDD in Applied Science or Forensic and Criminal Investigations with Distinctions in all Biology units
BTEC Diploma: DD in Applied Science or Forensic and Criminal Investigations + A at A Level
Scottish Highers: + 2 Advanced Highers AABBB + AB in Biology and a second science
Welsh Baccalaureate + 2 A Levels: B + AA in Biology and a second science
Access to HE Diploma: Award of
Access to HE Diploma: in Science, with 45 credits a
T Level: 3, including 36 at Distinction (to include Biology and a second science), and 9 at Merit

Routes for mature students

Other requirements
  • Second science subjects include Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Psychology, Environmental Science, Geology or Geography. Human Biology accepted in lieu of Biology, but Biology and Human Biology cannot be accepted in combination as the two sciences
  • GCSE Maths grade 4/C

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