Study Chemistry at Birmingham

• Join our community of chemistry enthusiasts, you will have access to industry-standard facilities in our £40m Collaborative Teaching Laboratory and a support network to help you get the most out of what the University of Birmingham offers.
• We pride ourselves on our commitment to offering you the most modern methods in teaching and learning, supported by cutting-edge facilities and technology-enhanced learning. Our innovative skills-based curriculum include new experiments designed by our own research groups and external industry collaborators turning you into top-quality practical chemists.
• Our experts are leading the way to help solve some of society's greatest challenges: improving the efficiency of renewable energy generation, developing the next generation of degradable plastics, improving early-stage detection of cancer, and developing faster, more sensitive diagnostics for viral infections.
• We are a university on the rise in all major league tables and were recently named University of the Year 2027 (Daily Mail)

Our Chemistry degree opens doors to numerous opportunities - whether that is applying your knowledge and research skills in chemical sectors such as pharmaceuticals and the energy industry or academic research, to transferring your analytical, project management, communication and teamwork skills into areas such as law, accountancy, teaching and investment analysis. Some of the top employers of our graduates are GSK, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Shell, AstraZeneca, NHS and Cancer Research UK.