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CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE When finished with this document please recycle it. COURSES 2021 Choosing your university is about more than finding By joining Chemistry at Southampton you’ll a course. It’s about starting the next chapter of your become part of an extremely welcoming and EXPLORE YOUR life and taking another step towards becoming the supportive school. You’ll be learning from NEW WORLD person you want to be. people who are working on trailblazing research programmes; from developing smart fabrics for At Southampton we share your passion to learn clothing that powers your tech, through to using and encourage your desire to explore and evolve in molecular modelling to change the way we a friendly and vibrant community. OPEN DAYS Top 100 study disease. global Our academics and diverse student community will university* inspire, challenge and support you. Together we You’ll also be working in brand new teaching For the latest Open Day dates and can help you make your mark on the world. laboratories – which are some of the best in the UK information, please go to: – providing you with everything you need to have an www.southampton.ac.uk/sb/openday outstanding university experience. Updates on other ways to visit us can be found at: www.southampton.ac.uk/sb/visitus CONTENTS 06 A global university Top 20 12 Course overview UK university** 16 Your courses 28 Making an impact with research 32 Your student life 34 Our international community 36 Accommodation 40 Applying and funding CHOOSE 42 How to find us SOUTHAMPTON

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We want to see you excel and take our You’ll be taught by the people working teaching as seriously as we do our on these programmes and even be able research. For example, we have a to get involved with research – plus, research group which is dedicated to sustainability is a central focus of the 95% advancing and improving chemistry modules we teach. of Chemistry students education. Also a large number of our were satisfied or very lecturers have become Senior Fellows We believe that your university of the Higher Education Academy, experience should be about more than satisfied with the which means they’ve completed a very the chemistry. Throughout your time overall quality of their in-depth training and research here, we’ll support you to develop the course* programme about teaching and skills, knowledge and mind-set that will student experience. help you to grow as a person and prepare for your future career. You’ll Your practical sessions will be held in be able to define your own path some of the best chemistry teaching through university, whether that’s laboratories in the UK. The through the modules you choose, % laboratories are brand new and you’ll making the most of placement and 99 be able to use equipment such as NMR study abroad opportunities, or getting of Chemistry students and IR spectrometers, and X-Ray involved with one of our hundreds of agreed that staff are diffraction facilities. You’ll receive an student societies. excellent training in practical good at explaining chemistry, plus if you go on to work in Perhaps the most important thing to things* the chemical industry you’ll already be know about Chemistry at familiar with the types of facilities you Southampton is that you’ll be joining a might be using in your career. very supportive community. The heart of our building is the Chemistry Our ethos is a focus on sustainability Common room, where both staff and and making the world and society a students meet every day for a chat better place. We’re working on over a coffee and biscuit! 99% incredible research programmes, from of Chemistry students converting carbon emissions into I hope to welcome you here soon! useful materials, through to using agreed that the course molecular modelling to find new Professor Gill Reid is intellectually treatments for diseases. Head of Chemistry stimulating*

*National Student Survey, 2020 4 5 Southampton is your gateway to the world. We are part of the A GLOBAL Worldwide Universities Explore new cultures through study abroad opportunities and international Network: a collaboration student societies, get advice from our global alumni community, and of knowledge from make friends with people from a multitude of backgrounds. around the world UNIVERSITY Our inspiring academics make a difference on every continent, and our business, government and non-government organisation partners span the globe. UNIVERSITY A GLOBAL

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STUDYING ABROAD Around Experience life abroad by 4 7,450 undertaking a chemistry international students placement at a university from over or within industry overseas. 5 Previous student placement 130 countries locations include the choose to study University of Sydney, Hong with us Kong Polytechnic University, Humboldt University of Berlin and AkzoNobel (Netherlands) Helping Zambian Investigating real Using modelling to A placement at Cape Applying chemistry 1 farmers 2 industry challenges 3 combat disease 4 Town University 5 to food and drink in in Luxembourg New Zealand Chemistry researchers have Professor Syma Khalid is using Student Katie Holloway deployed sensor networks in David Beharry, MChem computer modelling to understand travelled to Cape Town Peter Tunbridge completed a Zambia that are helping farmers with Six-month Placement* a protein which is found within the University to complete her six-month placement at the make decisions about crop planting student undertook his coronavirus. The models will be six-month research project, University of Auckland, New and harvesting. It helps farmers industrial placement at used by the University of California investigating the synthesis of Zealand. He used electrochemical decide on the best time to plant and DuPont in Luxembourg. San Diego to build an all-atom silver nanoparticles. methods to study red wines, harvest, taking into account model of the virus, to help *Now Chemistry with learning about how chemistry can external factors such as weather External Placement researchers design new drugs be applied to food and drink. and soil condition. and vaccines.

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6 7 OUR PEOPLE Dr Lynda Brown Associate Professor; Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team

Alongside her research in the field of synthetic organic chemistry, Lynda leads Chemistry’s work Our world-leading academics will Ò Become part of a research-intensive community where on equality, diversity and inclusion. Creating a PEOPLE OUR our discoveries are having global impact. culture of openness and inclusivity is at the heart inspire, challenge and support you of all we do and our students and staff genuinely throughout your studies. While you Ò Our world-leading academics will inspire and challenge feel a sense of community and belonging. Our are with us, you will be taught by you throughout your studies. silver Athena SWAN award demonstrates our experts with industry experience and Ò Our graduate mentors can help you develop your skills. continuing commitment to building a positive lecturers with innovative approaches Ò Feel welcome in your new home among a diverse mix environment for everyone in Chemistry. of people and cultures. to education.

Dr Geoff Hyett Sam Perry Admissions Tutor; MChem Chemistry, 2012; PhD in Associate Professor electrochemistry, 2016; Research Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry Sam really enjoyed studying electrochemistry as As Admissions Tutor, Geoff most enjoys part of his undergraduate degree and decided to meeting applicants and their families at Open study a PhD. He loves that chemistry covers such a Days. He finds it very rewarding to then teach wide scope; as part of the relatively small umbrella these students about his research interests - of electrochemistry, he has worked on fuel cells, solid state and sustainable chemistry - as they microelectrode probes, enzyme biosensors, move through the course, and show how luminescence sensors, steel corrosion and CO2 chemistry can be used to help provide clean reduction! He’s now working on a novel green energy for the future. technology which will convert carbon dioxide into useful chemicals. Sam recently presented his work to Members of the Houses of Parliament.

Professor David Read Molly Wilson Professorial Fellow in Chemical MChem Chemistry with Industry Experience* Education 2019; PhD in Chemistry, first year

David is using learning technology to make Molly’s six-month placement was with CooperVision, chemistry more accessible to students. Since one of the world’s leading contact lens manufacturers, pioneering the use of lecture recording in 2009, where she was able to solve a problem that the he has developed a range of novel self- company had faced for 20 years. There was a defect assessment activities to support students’ with a cosmetic lens product which occurred self-study, and has promoted flipped learning sporadically; and whenever the defect was identified across the University. This work led to the the whole batch of lenses had to be disposed. Molly award of a National Teaching Fellowship in 2017. identified a potential impurity within some of the raw materials used to make the contact lenses. She then manufactured lenses containing the impurity and used various analytical techniques to confirm that the suspected impurity was the cause.

*Now MChem Chemistry with External Placement 8 9 OUTSTANDING CHEMISTRY FACILITIES FACILITIES

Following a recent multimillion-pound investment in our chemistry facilities, you’ll have access to state-of-the-art equipment and gain an outstanding practical training.

The building refurbishment includes:

Ò New and upgraded equipment, Ò Variable-height benching and including NMR and IR fume hoods, to improve spectrometers, and X-Ray accessibility in the laboratory for all diffraction facilities. You will be able our students. There will also be a to analyse your own samples in the new locker space for you to use on laboratories, increasing your the ground floor. practical skills and analytical Ò Better energy efficiency, thanks capabilities. This also means that to improved thermal insulation and you’ll be working with the same lower water usage. facilities and equipment that are Ò used in modern chemical New laboratory furniture, creating a light, bright and modern laboratories, helping you to prepare work environment. for your future career. Ò Modern, high-tech display systems for presentations and group work. We also provide electronic notebooks in the laboratories, for you to gather data on your experiments.

This multimillion-pound investment in Chemistry signals a really exciting time for our current and future students. It ensures we’re able to deliver an even better student experience within outstanding We’re home to the laboratory facilities. We’ve also increased accessibility only dedicated and made our facilities more sustainable and environmentally friendly.” teaching facility for Professor Gill Reid crystallography Head of Chemistry in a UK university Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/ chemistry/refurbishment

10 11 Chemistry is a fascinating, rewarding and incredibly versatile subject to study, which YOUR has strong links to all other fields of science, medicine and engineering. Do you find yourself asking ‘but why does that happen?’ or ‘what if I tried that reaction with a different material?’? Through school and college you will have developed an excellent COURSES grounding in the subject – but there’s much more to learn. Choose from a range of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes at Southampton . COURSES YOUR

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Ò Develop a profound understanding of the interactive lectures, practical work in Laboratory work Course structure fundamentals of chemistry and gain an outstanding Teaching chemistry for a laboratories, workshops, small-group In your first year, you’ll spend six hours practical training tutorials, problem classes, revision per week carrying out practical work sustainable future is at the Whether you choose a Bachelor of sessions and e-learning. Ò You’ll graduate with a very versatile qualification heart of our curriculum. Science or a Master of Chemistry in our laboratories; the time you spend on practicals will increase in which is highly regarded by employers across the degree, your course structure will be Each module is assessed through Our students learn how we subsequent years. You will develop chemical industries and other sectors that require broadly the same. a combination of coursework and can use chemistry to tackle your laboratory techniques as well as an examination at the end of the independent thinking, problem solving, analytical putting into practice the theoretical the world’s biggest Each year is divided into two 12-week semester. For research projects and skills and hands-on, practical ability concepts you have covered in problems, from renewable teaching semesters. As well as placements in the third or fourth Ò Some of our courses offer placement your lectures. These sessions are developing your core knowledge of year, you will be required to submit opportunities either in industry or abroad energy to improving the challenging but very sociable and the subject, you will learn a wide variety a dissertation and give an oral study of disease. well supported, and allow you to at partner universities of transferable skills. You will study a presentation. obtain your own results and generate Ò You will study in a supportive and welcoming mixture of compulsory and optional modules. supporting laboratory reports. learning community, led by academics who are Lectures pioneering innovative ways to teach We aim to make our lectures as E-learning Teaching innovation interactive as possible. You will take You will be supported in your part in discussions, question and degree programme by our virtual Our Education group within answer sessions, informal quizzes and learning environment – Blackboard Chemistry, headed by Professor David more conventional-style seminars. In – where lecture notes, hand-outs, Read, is dedicated to developing new most lectures, you will get handouts presentations and alternative teaching and exciting teaching methods and summarising key points to help you methods such as videos and self- support for students. We make strong structure your note-taking. use of e-learning (videos, interactive assessment tests are posted. This online tests and other resources) and virtual way of studying gives you more target our support where needed, Workshops and tutorials control over your own learning and such as in creation of video tutorials. Our workshops will help convert your encourages your private study. knowledge to understanding. Working with a group of peers, you Self-assessment can be completed at How will I learn? will explore problems and link to any time and your marks and feedback material you have covered in your are available as soon as you finish We aim to develop your understanding lectures. You will learn from each the test. This gives you valuable 100% guidance on areas for future Our undergraduate in an inspiring and rewarding way other and gain confidence in your own of our research has BSc and MChem by encouraging a close working abilities by attending regular tutorials improvement and provides us with relationship between you and your useful feedback. been rated world programmes are with your tutor and a small group of leading or tutor. Our excellent academics are your fellow students. Before your accredited by the committed to sharing their knowledge tutorial you will be set problems to internationally excellent and experience and introducing you work on and you will submit your work for the research Royal Society of to new, rapidly developing areas such for assessment. environment we provide Chemistry as nanostructured materials and to staff and students synthetic biology. These small group tutorials will be For more details about tailored to suit your developing : Research Excellence We deliver our courses through a our courses visit knowledge and you will have the www.southampton.ac.uk/ Framework, 2014 variety of different teaching methods opportunity to lead as well as chemistry/undergraduate and assessment styles, such as contribute to discussions.

12 13 A TYPICAL FOUR-YEAR COURSE STRUCTURE STRUCTURE COURSE FOUR-YEAR A TYPICAL To give you a flavour of the topics you will study, here is a typical course structure for the four-year MChem Chemistry degree.

Key topics include: Analytical Chemistry Coordination Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry In semester two you will carry out the Year one and Mathematics Ò Thermodynamics: enthalpy, Solid State Chemistry and This module covers DNA and RNA; literature research and dissertation entropy and free energy of You’ll also study an analytical chemistry Organometallics the structure and synthesis of write-up from your research project, Fundamentals of Organic mixtures and solution module and a mathematical module; Explore the key role of symmetry carbohydrates, peptides and proteins; and also choose three advanced Chemistry and Reactions in equilibria, and understanding this will be tailored depending on in chemistry and how this allows us the chemical basis and mechanisms options, which could include: Organic Chemistry spontaneous change whether or not you have studied A to understand the properties and of the cellular pathways in glycolysis; These modules introduce key topics in Ò Kinetics: zero, first and second level mathematics. spectroscopy of transition metal and and natural product chemistry. Ò Organic Materials Chemistry – organic chemistry, covering molecular order rate laws, the effect of organometallic compounds, within explore polymer chemistry and structure and reaction mechanisms activation energy and the steady the context of molecular orbital and Advanced Physical Chemistry how molecular structure can affect using ‘curly arrows’. state approximation for more Year two ligand field theory. This module also You’ll study electrochemistry and the properties of a plastic. The complex kinetics introduces the bonding theories of the kinetics of interface chemistry module includes an awareness of the impact of plastics on society Key topics include: Ò Mathematical skills: unit Organic Reaction Mechanisms, solid-state chemistry, and how we (gas/solid, liquid/solid). This module can use these theories to understand and the environment Ò Structure of molecules: isomerism, manipulation, algebraic Retrosynthesis and Aromatics also explores applications in energy the magnetic, optical and electronic stereochemistry, functional groups transformation, quadratic Extend your knowledge of organic storage, pollution control and Ò Chemistry Through the properties of a range of functional and infrared spectroscopy equations, logarithms, reaction mechanisms and learn about fuel cells. Computational Microscope – materials. an introduction to understanding Ò Understanding reactivity: electron trigonometry, calculus and the effect of solvent, sterics and Advanced Practical Chemistry the behaviour of atoms and rich and electron deficient sites, complex numbers reactive intermediates. New topics will Optional modules Undertake research-oriented, open- molecules using state-of-the-art and acidity and basicity include the stability of carbocations, Structure and Bonding, and addition to alkenes and aromatic You can choose from a range ended experiments which allow you computational methods, Ò Key reaction mechanisms: Main Group and Transition substitution, and heterocyclic of chemistry options, as well as to develop new practical skills and considering both classical and nucleophilic substitution, Metal Chemistry chemistry. The year will culminate modules from across the University. manage your own learning. You’ll quantum mechanics carbon-carbon bond formation, Core inorganic chemistry modules with an introduction to retrosynthesis Example optional modules include present your results in written and Ò Energy Applications of elimination reactions, and introduce the structure of the atom and the principles for designing the Mathematical Methods in Chemistry, oral form. Electrochemistry – understand reactions of carbonyl sites and and how this underpins the diverse synthesis of pharmaceuticals and Ethics in Sciences, Engineering and some of the most important related compounds chemistry of the periodic table. fine chemicals. Technology, Aquatic Chemistry and Optional modules fundamental concepts in Fundamentals of You’ll be introduced to modern Pharmacology. Select three optional chemistry electrochemistry, and how these Thermodynamics, Equilibrium, theories of bonding and develop your Quantum Mechanics and modules from a choice of eight, can be used to solve challenges understanding of molecular shape. in modern power sources and Kinetics and Quantum Molecular Spectroscopy, Year three including Medicinal Chemistry, Mechanics Thermodynamics and Kinetics Sustainable Chemistry and Key topics include: Atmospheric Chemistry. Year one physical chemistry covers Learn about the quantum mechanical You will take advanced modules in the thermodynamics and kinetics, which Ò Atomic structure: hydrogenic approach to describing atoms and core practical and theoretical areas of are key topics for understanding if a atoms, wavefunctions and molecules and develop a quantified chemistry: Year four Find out more chemical reaction will occur, and how atomic orbitals description of intermolecular Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Our programmes are regularly quickly. You’ll also study the interaction Ò Bonding: valence bond theory interactions. You will also cover the Undertake an Advanced Research reviewed and updated so changes are of matter with radiation, which is and ionic bonding, and the shape kinetics of more complex reactions Study organometallic chemistry, Project in an area of your choice, likely to occur. essential for understanding all types of and symmetry of molecules such as chain reactions, enzyme pigments, f-block chemistry, and the supervised by a member of academic applications in inorganic systems spectroscopy. Ò Chemistry of the elements: reactions and diffusion-controlled staff. This module allows you to spend For the most up-to-date information of UV/visible spectroscopy and transition metal chemistry, processes. the whole first semester (14 weeks) about the course you’re interested in, quadrupolar NMR. main group chemistry and working full time in the laboratory on including modules, please visit: solid-state lattices your research project. www.southampton.ac.uk/ chemistry/courses 14 15 Key information Key information UCAS code: F100 BSC CHEMISTRY MCHEM UCAS code: F103 Start date: September Start date: September Duration: Three years Duration: Four years Fees: Please see page 40 CHEMISTRY Fees: Please see page 40 Typical offers require Typical offers require the following Choose Southampton Choose Southampton the following

CHEMISTRY BSC A levels: AAB, including chemistry A levels: AAA, including chemistry MCHEM or ABB, including chemistry and or AAB, including chemistry and one additional science subject. Ò Develop a profound understanding of chemistry in three years Ò Tailored towards students wanting to go on to further chemistry one additional science subject. Accepted science subjects include Ò Undertake a final-year research project or a literature and research or study, or to move into the chemistry industry Accepted science subjects include

maths, further maths, physics, mini-research project Ò Module choice allows you to shape your degree to your maths, further maths, physics, CHEMISTRY biology, human biology, geology, biology, human biology, geology, geography and psychology. Ò Ideal for developing transferable skills for a wide range of careers interests and career aspirations geography and psychology. Science practical components Ò Advanced practicals in year three will prepare you for your Science practical components must be passed. major independent research project in year four must be passed. IB: 34 points, 17 at higher level IB: 36 points, 18 at higher level including 5 at higher level in including 6 at higher level in chemistry or 32 points, 16 at higher chemistry or 34 points, with level including 5 at higher level in 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects chemistry and 5 at higher level in including chemistry and an one additional science additional science subject Selection process: Selection process: UCAS application UCAS application Our typical entry requirements Our typical entry requirements may be subject to change. may be subject to change. Before you apply, check our Before you apply, check our website for specific requirements website for specific requirements and full details and full details

The lecturers are so engaging and the I’d like to think that my time opportunity to do a project Course overview Typical course content Course overview Your fourth-year project will see you alongside esteemed working within one of our cutting-edge at university has helped research groups, with the potential to Ò You will study me to become more well- professors is amazing. The This three-year degree will provide Years one and two: The four-year MChem Chemistry have your work published and make a the core areas of modern rounded as a person. There combination of practical you with a sound background and degree builds on the robust real impact in your chosen field. work, managing deadlines practical training in all aspects of chemistry, covering organic, foundation of the BSc to expand the are so many like-minded inorganic and physical chemistry. and learning analytical skills chemistry, and develop your breadth and depth of your core Typical course content people who will build you understanding of its impact on Topics include: Isomerism, organic chemistry knowledge. Optional has prepared me well for my up and want to see you modern society. mechanism and retrosynthesis; modules will enable you to shape your Ò Years one and two: You will follow succeed.” career.” thermodynamics, kinetic and degree to specialise in the areas that the BSc Chemistry course Taught by leading academics at the Sara Ahmed quantum mechanics; molecular most inspire you, from chemical structure. Jared Wason forefront of chemistry research, MChem Chemistry, third year BSc Chemistry, 2019 orbital and ligand field theory; modelling to electrochemistry or Ò Year three: Undertake an you will get the opportunity to Audit Associate, KPMG transitional metal, main group and pharmaceuticals. advanced practical module, as well develop your knowledge of a variety organometallic chemistry. as modules on topics such as of different chemistry applications Ò Year three: Choose from Throughout your degree you will pigments and f-block chemistry, such as computational chemistry, advanced optional modules. You’ll develop the skills and knowledge you natural product chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance and drug also choose from the following two need to prepare for your fourth-year electrochemistry and applications discovery. modules: Chemistry Research independent research project. You’ll in energy storage. Find out more study mini research projects in your Find out more Project or Advanced Practical Ò Year four: Undertake an Advanced For more details about your course Our broad range of modules, including second year and advanced practicals For more details about your course Chemistry. Research Project and choose from such as module information and course options from the wider University, will in year three, which will help you to such as module information and course a wide range of optional modules structure, visit structure, visit help you tailor your degree to your better understand the different fields on topics such as atmospheric www.southampton.ac.uk/ particular interests. Whether you want of research within chemistry. www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/ chemistry/bsc to stay in chemistry research, take up chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, mchem Or to have specific questions answered: a role in industry or go into something sustainable chemistry, Or to have specific questions answered: T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 completely different, you can shape computational chemistry and x-ray T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 E: [email protected] your degree to your career aspirations. crystallographic techniques. E: [email protected] 16 17 Key information Key information UCAS code: F101 MCHEM MCHEM UCAS code: F102 Start date: September Start date: September Duration: Four years Duration: Four years Fees: Please see page 40 CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY Fees: Please see page 40 Typical offers require WITH EXTERNAL PLACEMENT WITH YEAR-LONG INDUSTRY Typical offers require the following the following

PLACEMENT EXTERNAL WITH CHEMISTRY MCHEM A levels: AAA, including chemistry EXPERIENCE A levels: AAA, including chemistry EXPERIENCE INDUSTRY YEAR-LONG WITH CHEMISTRY MCHEM or AAB, including chemistry and or AAB, including chemistry and one additional science subject. one additional science subject. Accepted science subjects include Choose Southampton Choose Southampton Accepted science subjects include maths, further maths, physics, maths, further maths, physics, biology, human biology, geology, Ò Undertake a six-month placement at an overseas university or Ò Spend your final year working on a research project biology, human biology, geology, geography and psychology. within industry within industry geography and psychology. Science practical components Science practical components Ò Ò must be passed Previous placement locations include University of Sydney, Hong Kong Designed for ambitious students with career aspirations must be passed IB: 36 points, 18 at higher level Polytechnic University, Humboldt University of Berlin, AkzoNobel in academic or commercial research IB: 36 points, 18 at higher level including 6 at higher level in (Netherlands) and Johnson Matthey (UK) Ò Study an in-house chemistry research project in year three including 6 at higher level in chemistry or 34 points, with Ò Study an in-house chemistry research project in year three chemistry or 34 points, with 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects including chemistry and one including chemistry and one additional science subject additional science subject Selection process: UCAS Selection process: UCAS application application Our typical entry requirements Our typical entry requirements may be subject to change. may be subject to change. Before you apply, check our Before you apply, check our website for specific requirements website for specific requirements and full details and full details

The highlight of my time here has been my six-month On my placement I’ve been placement at the University Vancouver, Canada investigating the effects of British Columbia in of different variables on Canada. This allowed me to Both placement opportunities will A key feature of this programme is improving the performance build on my independent Course overview stand out on your CV and impress Course overview that you will complete both a research employers. You’ll also have the support project based in Southampton of lubricant additives for project work and experience This innovative and prestigious The one-year industrial placement engines. It’s been incredible an entirely new culture and of our dedicated placement tutor and an industry-based placement programme – the first of its kind in the throughout your time away from allows you to expand the breadth and project. These projects will help to to learn what a scientist does environment.” UK – allows you to combine your Southampton. depth of your core chemistry skills by equip you for a successful career as a day-to-day.” obtaining significant industrial training Tom Clough chemistry degree with six months of professional chemist and enable you Hiba Azim MChem Chemistry with Research industrial experience or a research Typical course content in an advanced chemistry environment. to fulfil the requirements of the Royal MChem Chemistry with Project Abroad*, 2017 placement at an overseas university. Students have completed placements Society of Chemistry for the Chartered Year-Long Industry Experience, *Now MChem Chemistry with External Ò Follow at organisations such as Pzifer, GSK, Years one, two and three Chemist (CChem) qualification. fourth year Placement If you choose to undertake a the same course structure as the CooperVision and Merck. placement in industry, you’ll develop MChem Chemistry. Typical course content skills and awareness from working in Ò Year four4: Undertake your During your placement you will be able a commercial environment, as well as six-month chemistry placement, to keep your knowledge and theory Ò Years one and two: Follow the building key contacts. If you choose an then choose from a range of up to date with well-supported online same course structure as MChem Find out more overseas university placement, you’ll advanced chemistry modules, in learning. Our dedicated placement Chemistry. Find out more experience life abroad while working For more details about your course areas such as atmospheric tutor will also support you throughout Ò Year three: Study modules in For more details about your course such as module information and course on an advanced research project in the chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, your placement. inorganic, physical and organic such as module information and course structure, visit structure, visit university’s laboratories. sustainable chemistry, chemistry, and complete an www.southampton.ac.uk/mchem-six www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/ computational chemistry and x-ray Advanced Research Project. Or to have specific questions answered: mchem-placement crystallographic techniques. Ò Year four: Undertake your T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 Or to have specific questions answered: placement. E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 E: [email protected] 18 19 Key information Key information UCAS code: F1GC MCHEM MCHEM UCAS code: F1BC Start date: September Start date: September Duration: Four years Duration: Four years Fees: Please see page 40 CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY Fees: Please see page 40 Typical offers require WITH MATHEMATICS WITH MEDICINAL SCIENCES Typical offers require the following the following SCIENCES MEDICINAL WITH CHEMISTRY MCHEM MATHEMATICS WITH CHEMISTRY MCHEM A levels: AAA, including A levels: AAA, including chemistry chemistry and maths or AAB, or AAB, including chemistry and including chemistry, maths one additional science subject. and one additional science. Choose Southampton Choose Southampton Accepted science subjects include Accepted science subjects include maths, further maths, physics, further maths, physics, human Ò Four-year chemistry programme providing specialisation Ò Gain an extensive, in-depth knowledge of chemistry and biology, human biology, geology, biology, geology, geography and in mathematics or statistics medicinal sciences geography and psychology. psychology. Science practical components Ò Ò Science practical components must Work on a significant independent research project, Undertake a six-month placement in industry or academia must be passed be passed integrating chemistry and mathematics Ò Complete an independent chemistry research project IB: 36 points, 18 at higher level IB: 36 points, 18 points at higher Ò Develop advanced analytical and statistical skills, including 6 at higher level in level, including 6 at higher level in preparing you for a successful scientific career chemistry or 34 points, with chemistry and 6 at higher level in 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects mathematics† or 34 points, with including chemistry and one 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects additional science subject including chemistry, mathematics† and one additional science subject Selection process: UCAS application Selection process: UCAS application Our typical entry requirements may be subject to change. 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Maths has always been my All the lecturers are very Course overview Typical course content Course overview Typical course content strongest subject, but I’ve professional and helpful. always loved chemistry. This challenging degree allows you Study the same core and advanced Explore both chemistry and medicinal Study the same core and advanced There is lots of learning Doing both subjects meant to gain an in-depth knowledge and chemistry modules, and research sciences, studying topics such as chemistry modules, and research support in the form of that I could do what I was understanding of chemistry, as well projects, as detailed in MChem pharmacology, physiology and projects, as MChem Chemistry. In tutorials, workshops and good at and what I loved.” as integrating mathematics to an Chemistry. In addition, 25 per cent biochemistry. addition, 25 per cent of your degree will additional problem sets.” advanced level throughout the of your degree will be made up be made up of medical and biological Abida Rahman programme. of mathematical modules. These You will combine your chemistry modules. Modules available include: Militza Dimtrova MChem Chemistry with modules include: degree with six months of industrial MChem Chemistry with Mathematics, third year Ò Year one: You’ll follow the MChem Medicinal Sciences, third year Your independent research project will experience or a research placement Ò Year one: Calculus Chemistry course structure. enable you to fulfil the requirements at an overseas university. You will of the Royal Society of Chemistry Ò Year two: Linear Algebra and also undertake a research project at Ò Year two: Biochemistry or Cell for the Chartered Chemist (CChem) Multivariable Calculus Southampton. These projects will Biology and Physiology qualification. Ò Year three: Hilbert Spaces, Partial enable you to fulfil the requirements Ò Year three: Pharmacology, Differential Equations and options of the Royal Society of Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry and options Find out more You’ll develop the skills and knowledge including Complex Analysis and for the Chartered Chemist (CChem) including Cancer Chromosome Find out more For more details about your course you need to pursue a scientific career Nonlinear Optimisation qualification. Biology and Molecular Cell Biology For more details about your course such as module information and course in areas such as analytical chemistry, such as module information and course structure, visit programming and computational Ò Year four: Integral Transform The degree will provide you Ò Year four: Undertake your structure, visit www.southampton.ac.uk/ chemistry, nanotechnology and other Methods with a sound basis for further six-month research placement, www.southampton.ac.uk/ chemistry/maths chemical industries, or within research study or a successful career as a then choose from a range of chemistry/medicinal Or to have specific questions answered: in academia. professional chemist in areas such as advanced chemistry modules and Or to have specific questions answered: T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 pharmaceuticals, biological chemistry options from such as Biomedical T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 E: [email protected] and life sciences. Technology, Molecular E: [email protected] Pharmacology and The Molecular 20 and Structural Basis of Disease 21 Key information Key information UCAS code: F105 MCHEM SCIENCE UCAS code: F108 Start date: September Start date: September Duration: Four years Duration: One year Fees: Please see page 40 CHEMISTRY FOUNDATION Fees: Please see page 40 Typical offers require (DIGITAL METHODS AND Typical offers require the following the following S MODELLING) COMPUTATIONAL AND METHODS (DIGITAL CHEMISTRY MCHEM A levels: AAA, including COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING) A levels: BBB YEAR F cience chemistry and maths or AAB, BTEC National Extended including chemistry, maths Diploma: DDD and one additional science. Choose Southampton Choose Southampton IB: 30 points Accepted science subjects include Selection process: further maths, physics, human Ò Study both traditional chemistry and computational methods, Ò The Foundation Year provides a rapid introduction to chemistry, Y oundation biology, geology, geography and UCAS application psychology. Science practical preparing you for careers in the chemical industry or data science biology and mathematics Our typical entry requirements components must be passed. Ò Develop your knowledge of computational modelling and Ò You will study at our Highfield Campus and the National may be subject to change. IB: 36 points, 18 points at higher how we can use digital chemistry to analyse Big Data Oceanography Centre Southampton, our waterfront campus Before you apply, check our level, including 6 at higher level in website for specific requirements chemistry and 6 at higher level in Ò Our work with industries, ranging from pharmaceuticals to software Ò Students registered on the Science Foundation Year are and full details mathematics† or 34 points, with development, means that the training you receive will have direct industrial full-time members of the University of Southampton student ear 6,6,5 in three higher level subjects relevance - and provides opportunities for summer placements community, with access to accommodation including chemistry, mathematics† and one additional science subject Selection process: UCAS application Our typical entry requirements may be subject to change. Before you apply, check our website for specific requirements My favourite part of the and full details †Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches is Foundation Year was the preferred to Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation laboratory work. I found the experiments very interesting and writing reports helped On this programme you will me develop my scientific An example of a computational model of the E.coli outer membrane which helps us to English writing skills, which learn the traditional skills understand how the molecules are arranged and work together within the membranes associated with a chemistry that protect bacteria. Credit: Conrado Pedebos and Syma Khalid has proved crucial in my degree, augmented with further studies.” a rigorous training in the Course overview Typical course content Course overview Teaching and Sylwia Ostrowska programming, modelling and assessment Science Foundation Year, 2014; Digital skills are becoming more and Ò Year one: You’ll follow the MChem Our Foundation Year provides MChem Chemistry with Research data analysis skills required Project Abroad or Industry more in demand in the chemical Chemistry course structure. students from varied academic for the modern digital age.” Foundation Year students are taught Experience*, 2018; industries. Computational modelling Ò Year two: In addition to studying backgrounds with the knowledge and on campus with a high level of learning PhD Chemistry, second year Dr Russell Minns saves the need for laborious and costly skills to meet the challenges of our core areas of modern chemistry, support. You will study full time *Now Chemistry with External Placement Programme Director experiments, whilst digital chemistry you’ll be introduced to degree courses. through a combination of lectures, techniques enable us to analyse huge programming and complete a The course is aimed at capable and workshops, laboratory practicals and amounts of data quickly. computational practical module. motivated students who have not private study. Assessment is mainly by On this course you will train as a Ò Year three: Choose from taken the typical A level route or who written examination and a variety of chemist, but also develop advanced advanced optional chemistry have not studied the subjects required coursework assignments. digital and computational skills. modules, and study quantum and for direct entry to our degree courses, You’ll be taught by academics classical mechanical approaches to for instance mature or international Find out more who are working on these exciting problems ranging from the students. For more details about your course computational projects with industry, fundamentals of chemical bonding Find out more Providing you achieve the required such as module information and course which means that we know what skills through to the study of biochemical For more details about your course structure, visit grades on the Foundation Year, we such as module information and course employers look for and can ensure interactions. offer you guaranteed progression structure, visit www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/ you are receiving the best training to courses Ò Year four: Study artificial onto our BSc or MChem Chemistry www.southampton.ac.uk/sfy prepare for your future career. Or to have specific questions answered: intelligence and machine learning, programme, or one of a number of Or to have specific questions answered: T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 choose optional modules and other Southampton science degrees. T: +44 (0)23 8059 9699 E: [email protected] complete an in-depth research E: [email protected] project. 22 23 Key information BENG/MENG CHEMICAL UCAS code: BEng H800; BEng with Industrial Placement Year H802; ENGINEERING MEng H801; MEng With Industrial Placement Year H803 Start date: September Choose Southampton Duration: BEng three years; BENG/MENG BENG/MENG MEng four years Fees: Please see page 40 Ò Study a three-year BEng or a four-year MEng. Both courses include Typical offers require the an optional additional industrial placement year following A levels: AAA including chemistry Ò Gain sought-after skills in sustainable chemical engineering and

CHEMICAL

CHEMICAL with a pass in the chemistry work towards improving our environment practical and mathematics Ò Study in new chemistry teaching laboratories and over 10,000 m2 IB: 36 points, 18 points at higher of specialist engineering workshops level, including 6 at higher level in chemistry and either 6 at higher

ENGINEERING ENGINEERING level in Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches or 7 at higher level in Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation Typical course content Selection process: Course overview You’ll be working in new chemistry UCAS application 2 laboratories and over 10,000m of Ò Year one: Study the principles of Our typical entry requirements Demand is growing for chemical specialist engineering workshops, chemical engineering, as well as may be subject to change. engineers with the ability to design laboratories and testing facilities. modules in engineering and Before you apply, check our sustainable technologies and There’s also a dedicated computer chemistry covering topics such as website for specific requirements processes. Draw on our expertise in suite for chemical engineering. We’re design, mechanics and and full details low-carbon technology, fine chemicals, building bespoke chemical engineering thermofluidics. green energy and water/wastewater laboratories too which we’re working Ò Year two: Deepen your knowledge engineering, and gain the skills needed towards being ready in 2022 – of chemical engineering by studying to improve the impact that chemical complete with a virtual control room. more in-depth topics including INDUSTRIAL engineering has on the environment. You’ll be in a great position when you process control, reaction PLACEMENT YEAR Our chemical engineering graduate as chemical engineering is engineering, and heat and mass Design is embedded throughout the You can complete a paid industrial degrees have an one of the most stable and lucrative transfer. degree. In your third year you’ll take placement year as part of the employment sectors in the UK. intentional focus on part in a group design project, bringing Ò Year three: Study advanced BEng or the MEng; the placement together all of your theoretical chemical engineering modules and adds an extra year to your studies. sustainability. We aim to knowledge and practical skills to create complete your group design Your placement could be in an equip our graduates with a design solution – whether that’s a project. industry such as energy systems, simulation, a report to meet a brief Ò Year four (MEng): Study an pharmaceutical, food or emerging the skills to enable them to or even building part of a chemical individual research project, learn technologies. You’ll develop respond to the changing engineering plant. about the commercialisation of knowledge and skills to prepare landscape of chemical chemistry and choose optional you for the workplace, and remain modules in areas such as bioenergy, enrolled as a student during engineering.” wastewater process engineering the year, with access to all the University’s support services. Dr Mohamed Hassan-Sayed and artificial intelligence in Programme Leader, chemistry. Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Find out more For more details about your course Distinctive focus on such as module information and course Take part structure, visit

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We have been LEARNING YOUR Customise your degree, explore beyond your chosen subject academics are and enjoy active learning at Southampton. We have the awarded silver Higher Education resources, staff and support you need to learn in your own for our teaching Academy Senior way and get the most out of your degree. excellence* Fellows demonstrating a commitment to teaching excellence

Learn beyond the lecture theatre Everything you need Space to think Get hands-on experience through We provide the tools you need to Whether you prefer working in groups field trips, laboratory studies, group get the most out of your studies. or independently, there is space for projects, excavations and placements you on campus. in both the public and private sectors. With access to the Southampton Virtual Environment (SVE) 24-hours- All our libraries provide a range of All this will take place alongside a-day, and wifi across all our UK digitally equipped study environments. thought-provoking lectures and campuses and halls of residence, We also have formal and informal seminars in our fully equipped lecture you can learn anytime, anywhere. areas for study, including computer theatres and modern learning spaces, workstations, communal study where you’ll be taught by leading We also provide a wide range of areas and even cafes, to help you academics and innovative lecturers. online resources that will enable work at your best. you to interact with experts in your Prepare to be intellectually challenged. field, and our five libraries contain around three million books, journals, An education as individual as you One-to-one support and other resources, including specialist collections of national Customising your learning can Motivating yourself and learning and international importance. ensure that your education independently is empowering, but reflects the truly interdisciplinary can often take time to get used Whenever you need help, our library nature of the world around us. to when you start university. teams offer wide-ranging support and Investing in your experience guidance online, in person, via chat Our flexible approach to your degree One of the most important people and over the phone. Online resources, means that you can combine your We are continuously updating you will meet during your time with tutorials and workshops run by our interests and study strengths to our campuses to ensure that we us will be your Personal Academic library staff will enable you to make the help you really stand out when you can give you the best possible Tutor (PAT), who will offer one-to-one best use of our collections and services. graduate, and to open up new student experience. support and advice throughout perspectives and possibilities. your studies. University laptops are also available Our brand new teaching and learning to borrow, with software, browsers Many of our programmes offer centre on Highfield Campus, the This relationship will be valuable and printers installed, to help you optional interdisciplinary modules Centenary Building, opened in autumn from your very first weeks here, access electronic resources easily. to help you expand your knowledge 2019, and we are investing £12m in right up until you graduate. and take on a new challenge. Why not our chemistry facilities. We’ve also grow your business skills, or tailor your recently transformed facilities for education towards sustainability? Health Sciences and Electronics and Computer Sciences to ensure you have the resources and spaces you need.

Our students have their say in how we Find out more: develop, and we value and listen to www.southampton.ac.uk/ student feedback to provide a sb/flexible world-class education and learning environment. 26 *Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), awarded June 2018, valid for three years until June 2021 27 MAKING AN IMPACT WITH RESEARCH RESEARCH WORLD-CLASS

Thanks to our research, facilities, experts and connections, you have the opportunity to have unique, hands-on experiences and join us in changing lives around the world.

Joining a Russell Group university Here’s a flavour of some of the Chemistry is ranked has many benefits for your research we’re working on: education. Russell Group universities are committed to the Ò Developing the next generation of joint 1st highest standards of research and lithium-ion batteries which could in the UK for teaching; here at Southampton improve the power and range research intensity we’re focussed on changing the of electric vehicles My best experience so far was, hands down, my summer Complete University way the world and society works. Ò Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Guide, 2020 internship. It was within Professor Bruno Linclau’s (NMR) to test drugs which could research group, Organic Chemistry: Synthesis, Catalysis For you, that means being surrounded reduce the need for laboratory and Flow. I was very interested in the topic that Bruno by trailblazing research. As you’re animals learning from the people who Ò that was teaching that semester, so I had a chat with Bruno are making the discoveries, you’ll Creating smart fabrics harness energy to power our tech and he managed to get me an internship position. The be taught the most up-to-date aim was to synthesise targeted compounds and purify knowledge in your lectures and Ò Accurately diagnosing them. This internship has familiarised me with work in a seminars. You’ll have access to the Huntington’s Disease using same facilities that we use for our spectroscopy which could also research lab. I have learned how to work under pressure research. And there are opportunities accelerate the assessment and and stay positive if things do not go exactly as planned!” for you to get involved through your tracking of treatments Gabija Poskaite projects and summer placements. Ò Identifying antibiotic MChem Chemistry, third year resistance much faster using unique Raman techniques

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Your future doesn’t start when you graduate; it begins CAREER YOUR SHAPING the moment you join us at Southampton. Southampton Chemistry graduates are successfully employed at high-profile organisations such as: Accenture AkzoNobel AstraZeneca BAE Systems BP Calor Gas CooperVision Fast track your ambitions Deloitte Ò Whether you have a plan in mind, Our Chemistry graduates Dstl or you are unsure about where life go into careers in a Envirochem may take you, our Careers and European Space Agency Employability Service can guide variety of fields including GKN Aerospace and support you at every stage. those in the chemical GSK Ò Our strong links with business industries such as Ilika and highly valued reputation in medicinal chemistry, Jaguar Land Rover industry means that we provide John Lewis and Partners numerous opportunities to environmental science, Johnson Matthey help you discover and realise nanotechnology, and JP Morgan your potential. environmental, KalVista Pharmaceuticals Ò Take advantage of work sustainable and green KPMG placements, internships and chemistry; teaching and Merck voluntary roles, and attend our Mesophotonics careers fairs, one-to-one advice lecturing; patent law; Met Office sessions, and employer-led events. accounting and audit Ministry of Defence Ò We offer Career Coaching to management; and National Physical Laboratory first-generation students, and the Nationwide Building Society marketing and brand Novartis chance for under-represented management. They also students to improve social mobility Peptide Protein Research through our Advance Programme. go on to study for a Pfizer PwC Ò higher degree such as an We have everything you need to ProMetic achieve your entrepreneurial MSc or PhD. QinetiQ goals: make the most of available Sun Chemical At the end of my third year, I secured the funding, attend workshops and Syngenta summer schools and access our opportunity to undertake a placement with NASA extensive expertise. in Silicon Valley, California. I’m still working with NASA now; they recently awarded me funding to develop a method forthe 3D printing of life support systems which remove carbon dioxide 96% from a spacecraft atmosphere. The technique Top 20 2nd should work on the Moon!” of our graduates in the Russell Group UK university targeted were in employment for graduates in Jamie Thompson by the largest number or further study Find out more: employment*** BSc Chemistry, 2016; of top employers* within six months** www.southampton.ac.uk/ PhD in Material Science at Imperial College London sb/ careers

*Graduate Market in 2019, High Fliers Research ** (within six months of completing their degree); DLHE, 2016/17 30 ***HESA DLHE 2016/17, Table 13a (includes both undergraduate and postgraduate graduates) 31 Our unique waterfront campus, based Social life at the National Oceanography Centre Run for students by students, the YOUR Southampton (NOCS), is one of the Students’ Union aims to unlock the world’s leading research centres for potential and enrich the life of every the study of ocean and Earth science. student. Its main purpose is to look after the academic interests of all STUDENT Winchester School of Art (WSA) students, through their representation is located 12 miles north of system, elections and Advice Centre. Southampton, in Winchester city

LIFE centre. With creative ambition at its Ò Experience Freshers’ – a full LIFE STUDENT YOUR core, WSA supports students with programme of activities to help cutting-edge resources including you settle in. 05 specialist computer suites, studios, 3D Ò Join one of more than 300 clubs printing, industrial sewing and knitting Ò and societies, and try everything Get free, independent and machines, and more. from archery and performing arts confidential advice from the to debating and quidditch. Advice Centre on matters Set within the EduCity Iskandar including student finance, housing Ò development in Johor, Southampton Volunteer your time with RAG and academic issues. Malaysia offers split degrees in (Raise and Give), a student group Ò Run for one of the positions in the several undergraduate Engineering that organises fundraising events Students’ Union’s elections and programmes. Students benefit from to benefit local, national and become the voice of students our world-class teaching and course international charities. across the University. content in a safe and supportive Ò Enjoy food from a Michelin-trained international environment with chef at student prices in The Sport excellent facilities. Bridge, try delicious vegan and Ò Swim in our six-lane, 25-metre pool vegetarian food in The Plant Pot, or 03 or use the varied fitness equipment socialise with friends in The Stag’s across our nine gyms: six on sports bar. campus and three more in the city. Ò Catch a film in the Union’s 260-seat Ò Compete on over 20 grass and cinema, run by student volunteers. synthetic pitches or use our Ò Dance the night away in the martial arts studio or indoor Your time at Southampton will Union’s venues for large events, climbing wall. such as gigs and student balls. make your degree a lot more Ò Your subsidised Sport and Ò Become a DJ or station manager than just a qualification. Wellbeing membership gives you at Surge Radio and SUSUtv. access to a host of facilities and Ò Try out journalism with one of the activities across the city including Union’s award-winning magazines, a dry ski slope, athletics track, and 01 Wessex Scene or The Edge. free watersports. Ò Join one of the student sport Campuses Just a few minutes’ walk from teams or Athletic Union clubs. We have five campuses in Highfield, and on the edge of 04 Southampton, one in Winchester Southampton Common, Avenue and one in Malaysia. Each has its own Campus is where you’ll find most of distinct personality and community. our humanities subjects. Avenue houses our state-of-the-art £3m Highfield is our main campus; it is Archaeology building. home to historic buildings, cutting- 01 Socialising at bars and restaurants. edge research and teaching facilities, Boldrewood Innovation Campus is 02 Make the most of our sports facilities and opportunities. and the Students’ Union, as well as our the base for engineering studies and research. Facilities include a driving 03 An evening out at Hollywood Bowl. beautiful green spaces. Highfield is a 04 Students performing at live hub of activity and the perfect place to simulator, design studios, a 138m music events. study, relax, and socialise. towing tank and our £48m National 05 Westquay shopping centre. Infrastructure Laboratory.

One of the UK’s leading teaching hospital trusts, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Find out more: uni_southampton is the base for the study of medicine www.southampton.ac.uk/ Follow us on Instagram to see and healthcare. sb/life more pictures of our campuses 02 32 33 02 OUR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Join our vibrant and diverse international student community; study, make lifelong COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL OUR friendships and socialise on the south coast of the UK.

We welcome students from over 130 Meet and Greet We also offer a wide range of countries, including around 7,450 We organise a free Meet and Greet support programmes to help you EU and international students. service for all new international and EU prepare for learning in a British students in September each year. Our academic environment and meet 01 02 Support and advice representatives meet you at Heathrow your English language requirements. Our pre-sessional courses help Living and learning in a different or Gatwick Airport and transport you directly to our campuses. you prepare before you start country is a big step, so we ensure your course, and there is ongoing that our international students You can register for the Welcome academic English language support have all the support they need. Programme and Meet and you can access while you study. From ensuring a straightforward Greet service from July. entry process, to offering International Student attractive scholarships to eligible English language requirements Accommodation Guarantee applicants, we can help you settle and support If you are an international student, in to your new life in the UK. You will need to demonstrate that we guarantee you a place in you have sufficient knowledge of University accommodation, as long as you fulfil the full criteria Meet us in your country the English language in order to be able to benefit from all academic of the guarantee, which includes www.southampton. activities at the University. applying before 1 August each year, ac.uk/sb/meetus and continuing to be classified as For details about English international for fees purposes. language requirements for our Our International Office courses, visit our website. Wherever you are in the world, it is easy to discover how to become 03 04 a part of our community. Our friendly International Office staff Our specialist visas team can help 01 Enjoy the buzz of events on regularly travel overseas and within Explore our University advise and support you; you can find Highfield Campus. the UK to meet potential students Staying in university halls helped from home out more on our helpful website. 02 Meet with friends between lectures at exhibitions and events. on Highfield Campus. me to integrate easily. I had a Explore our campuses from 03 Buy fresh food at the weekly market anywhere in the world using our on Highfield Campus. We are always happy to help and can great time getting involved with Fees Virtual Open Day: 04 Have fun at the silent disco at answer any questions you may have social events such as cinema We offer fixed fees for international www.southampton.ac.uk/ the Freshers’ Ball. about living and studying here. evenings, board games nights students, so you pay the same sb/virtualopenday and Halloween. I made friends annual fee for the duration of Welcome Programme who are still the people I spend your course. We also make it Visas easy to pay your fees online, or Every September, we arrange a free most of my time with!” from your sponsor or funder. Welcome Programme for international Gabija Poskaite Before you join us, you will and EU students, which is designed to MChem Chemistry, third year need to find out about the UK’s More information on fees and funding help you settle into life in the UK and immigration procedures well in can be found on our website. at the University before your studies advance of your arrival in the UK. Find out more: begin. Meet other undergraduate www.southampton.ac.uk/ students, attend talks, explore our sb/international campuses and the city, and more. 34 35 ACCOMMODATION 01

Welcome to your home from home. Our accommodation is the ideal place to make new friends, experience student life, grow your confidence, and learn to be independent. ACCOMMODATION

All of our halls provide excellent Just some of the benefits of facilities, a guaranteed offer of living in halls include: *Our guarantee to you accommodation* in your first year at Ò a friendly student community and If you are a registered first-year the University, and 24-hour support competitive prices (which include undergraduate student, new to and advice. utility bills, internet, contents the University, starting a full-time insurance and, for halls in course, with no dependants, you Enjoy living in great locations in Southampton, a Unilink bus pass) will be guaranteed an offer of halls Southampton, with easy access to accommodation as long as you our campuses and facilities. Some are Ò great transport links with our campuses fulfil the full criteria of the within walking distance of Highfield guarantee, which includes Ò Campus, while others are closer to the on-site facilities including common applying before 1 August. vibrant city centre. rooms, launderettes, study and social spaces To uphold the guarantee, in years Stay in one of over You can choose from a range of room Ò year-round, 24-hour support from of exceptional demand, we may types, including en suite or non-en our Student Life team offer accommodation in a twin 01 Work or relax in communal spaces. suite, and catered or self-catered. Ò 24-hour security and CCTV shared room at the start of the 6,400 02 Spacious accommodation at Mayflower Halls. on all sites academic year for a short period 03 There are plenty of communal areas in halls. We also have rooms to suit all 04 Outside space at Glen Eyre. of time. You also have the student rooms needs, including accessible Ò catered and self-catered options opportunity to apply for adapted rooms, couple and family continuing years in halls. accommodation, and spaces 02 03 specifically for mature undergraduate Although this cannot be and postgraduate students. guaranteed, we will always offer students accommodation if we How to apply have availability. You can apply for your accommodation when applications have opened and you have received your formal offer of study with your student identification number (the eight-digit number given to you by the University).

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JUNE/JULY 2021 04 Allocation and offer of 1 AUGUST 2021 FEBRUARY/ MID Watch our video ‘Accommodation – MARCH 2021 rooms starts for deferred New students must have students and students with applied for accommodation SEPTEMBER your home away from home’ at Accommodation unconditional offers, who have before this date to be eligible 2021 www.southampton.ac.uk/sb/ application opens applied for accommodation for our accommodation Allocation of lifeinhalls and goes live online before 31 May 2021 guarantee rooms completed

APPLICATION TIMELINE MID AUGUST 25–26 2021 SEPTEMBER Find out more: 2021 www.southampton.ac.uk/ After A level results, sb/accommodation allocation of rooms Arrivals weekend to all students begins 36 37 EMBRACE YOUR NEW WORLD

Taking chemistry into the automotive industry WORLD NEW YOUR EMBRACE

“I joined Jaguar Land Rover on its “My other responsibilities all focus Manufacturing Graduate Scheme on cost saving and efficiency nearly three years ago. I have since improvements, through root cause moved into a role within the Material analysis, implementing material Quality Assurance team of Tooling and changes and finding resolutions for Pressed Parts. quality issues. The approach we take to these seemingly daunting problems “As a group, we are responsible is similar in mindset to how I would for pressing shaped parts from approach a small-scale problem in the sheet aluminium or steel. I use the laboratory. In this respect my degree knowledge I gained through my gave me fantastic training for the role degree to investigate the chemistry I now work in. of different alloys, their mechanical properties and how this influences the “I love the hands-on nature of my job. shapes we can engineer in a part. I am It’s rewarding to see, touch and drive currently leading a significant project the products we make. Despite being introducing new aluminium suppliers called an engineer, I use chemistry into our supply chain. I validate their every day. My degree at Southampton product offerings to ensure that gave me the knowledge, training and we can use multi-sourced material confidence to push the boundaries of without impacting on quality or press- where and how chemistry is used to line performance. develop new technologies.”

Emma Atkins MChem Chemistry with One-Year Placement, 2016; Project Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover

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FUNDING Tuition fees and funding How and when to apply The University will set fees for 2021/22 Ò Applications should be subject to any conditions imposed by submitted via UCAS government. Currently the tuition fee (www.ucas.com). is £9,250*, but we offer a large number Ò Our institution code is S27 of generous fee waivers and bursaries and our code name is for eligible students. For students from SOTON. lower income families, these financial Ò The applications open in packages will be based on household early September. income supplied to us by the Student Loans Company. Ò The deadline for medicine is Channel Islands/ Students commencing a Foundation We also provide free online support on Denis Henry Desty 15 October. If you are funding your own studies, Isle of Man student fees Year will pay less for their Foundation developing EPQ research projects. Undergraduate Scholarship Ò The equal consideration date you will need to pay your fees in Year than for the rest of their The Denis Henry Desty Undergraduate for all other programmes is 15 advance, or you can choose to pay Channel Islands and Isle of Man students integrated degree. Scholarships and bursaries will be charged the same tuition fee as Scholarship programme supports January. (Please note that your fees in three instalments on the We offer a variety of scholarships UK students. students from under-represented this does not apply to first day of each term to help spread EPQ and progression awards to the most international applicants.) the cost across the year. backgrounds in their chemistry International student fees for Our research-led approach to learning talented students across our subject studies. Ò The deadline for applications Visit our website for the latest 2021/2022 is reinforced in the value we place on areas. is 30 June, although we an Extended Project Qualification. Students on our four-year MChem information on tuition fees before you Foundation Year in Engineering and We also offer a range of bursaries strongly advise you to apply submit your UCAS form for entry in the programmes who meet the Physical Sciences, and Environmental As the first university to formally designed to help UK undergraduate as early as possible as some 2021/22 academic year. Students who University’s contextual admissions and Life Sciences: £19,500 per year recognise the EPQ in its admissions students in the most financial need.** courses may no longer have have applied for a deferred place in criteria will have the opportunity to offer scheme, we have always apply for a scholarship of £2,000 per vacancies after the January 2020/21 will be eligible for the 2021/22 All programmes in Engineering and Excellence in Chemistry recognised that skills gathered year, for each year they are studying at equal consideration date. tuition fees and support. Physical Sciences: £22,760 per year Scholarship through independent project work Southampton. If you are a UK student starting a higher International student and research will enhance and prepare Chemistry is able to offer a £1,000 education course in 2021/22, you can fixed fees you for your university experience. scholarship to any UK or EU applicant For full details of our Chemistry achieving A*AA grades in their A scholarships, visit apply for loans to help pay for both International students commencing Equivalent to half an A level, an EPQ levels (or equivalent in alternative www.southampton.ac.uk/ fees and living costs. For more details, their programme of study in 2021 will requires students to complete a self- qualifications), with the A* in chemistry/scholarships visit www.southampton.ac.uk/sb/ pay the same fixed fee for each year of directed and self-motivated project on chemistry. fees their programme, with the exception a topic of their choice. of programmes where a combination EU student fees of clinical and nonclinical fees apply. In On most of our courses applicants At the time of print the UK government these instances, the non-clinical fixed offering an EPQ will be made two has not confirmed whether students fee will apply for years one and two, offers – our typical offer based on from the EU will be eligible for UK and the clinical fixed fee will apply for three A levels, and an alternative or international fees. Up-to-date the remainder of the programme. As where, in exchange for an A or A* in information about fees can be found with other UK medical courses, these the EPQ, we will reduce the A level on our website. fees may be subject to an additional requirements by one grade. For example, a typical offer of AAA would charge for clinical placement in the Find out more: NHS, decided by the UK Government be made alongside an offer of AAB, plus an A in the EPQ. www.southampton.ac.uk/ sb/fees

*Annual increases, which are also subject to UK Parliament approval, will apply to institutions demonstrating high-quality teaching and are likely to be in line 40 with inflation. The measure of inflation to be used is Retail Price Index (RPIX) (excluding mortgage interest payments). It is anticipated that increases will apply **This statement is correct at the time of publication, but is subject to change 41 at the commencement of the second and subsequent years of the degree programme. HOW TO FIND US TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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