Undergraduate Courses

Chemistry

Chemistry BSc (with optional year in industry)
Full-time, 3-4 years | UCAS code: F100
Discoveries in chemistry can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs in fields like health and medicine, energy and the environment, technology and materials – to name just a few. This degree is about learning and training across a range of areas, to give you more choice in where your career can go.

Chemistry MChem (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
Full-time, 4 years | UCAS code: F105, F107, F106
This four-year degree expands on the Chemistry BSc to prepare you for high-level entry into the industry. It’s also a solid base for pursuing PhD research.

Chemistry with Foundation Year BSc (with optional year in industry)
Full-time, 4 years | UCAS code: F991
If you would love to study chemistry here at Leicester, but you don’t quite have the entry requirements, this Foundation Year degree is your path to making it happen.

Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal Chemistry BSc (with optional year in industry)
Full-time, 3-4 years | UCAS code: F120
Every infection-fighting and disease-treating drug owes a great debt to chemistry. In this degree, you’ll be given a solid grounding in chemistry and its role alongside drug development.

Medicinal Chemistry MChem (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
Full-time, 4 years | UCAS code: F121, F122, F123
This four-year degree expands on the Chemistry BSc to prepare you for high-level entry into the industry. It’s also a solid base for pursuing PhD research.

Pharmaceutical Science

Pharmaceutical Science BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
Full-time, 3 years | UCAS code: F160, F161, F162
You’ll explore the entire journey of a medicine, from initial discovery to large-scale manufacture.

Environmental Science 

Environmental Science BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS code: F840
This degree provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the Earth, its living systems, and the complexity of environmental-societal interactions. As an Environmental Scientist, you will investigate the most pressing global and environmental challenges of our time. You will study a diverse range of topics, delivered by staff from Geography, Geoscience and Biological Sciences. Key topics include climate change, conservation, ecology, sustainable development and natural resources. You will gain key skills for monitoring environmental processes and for managing the critical environmental challenges faced by society.

Environmental Science with Foundation Year BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
4-5 years, full-time
There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study Environmental Science at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.

Geography

Geography BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS code: F800
This degree programme involves a mix of physical and human geography in Year 1. In Years 2 and 3 you specialise in physical geography studying landscape processes, biogeography and climate change focussing on some of the most fascinating environments around the world.

Physical Geography and Geology BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS code: F8F6
This is for you if you have a broad interest in Earth Science and our environment and want to study at the boundary of the disciplines of physical geography and geology.

Geography with Foundation Year BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
4-5 years, full-time | UCAS code: F992
There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study geography at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.

Geology

Geology BSc (with optional year abroad or in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS Code: F600
We’re walking on billions of years of history. And in this geology degree, you’ll learn how to piece it all together, to understand how our planet works, and what it takes to carve out a career working on it. 

Geology MGeol (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
4-5 years, full-time | UCAS code: F601
Gain a broad training in geoscience as for our BSc Geology degree, and then develop masters-level expertise, including a research project on a topic of interest to you.

Geology with Palaeontology BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS Code: F641
Life. Evolution. Extinction. They might be huge concepts, but you can easily break them down through the lens of palaeontology. If you love fossils, and what they can tell us, this geology degree is for you.

Geology with Palaeontology MGeol (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
4-5 years, full-time | UCAS code: F642
Fossils reveal the history of life on Earth, but each new fossil discovery – and new analytical approaches – can change our understanding forever. In this degree, you will develop masters-level expertise, and undertake your own research on a palaeontological topic of interest to you. 

Physical Geography and Geology BSc (with optional year abroad or year in industry)
3-4 years, full-time | UCAS code: F8F6
This is for you if you have a broad interest in Earth Science and our environment and want to study at the boundary of the disciplines of physical geography and geology.

Geology with Foundation Year BSc (with optional year in industry and optional year abroad)
4-5 years, full-time | UCAS Code: F993
There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study geology at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.