Biomedical Sciences

Entry requirements

Academic requirements

Minimum second-class (2:2) Honours degree or overseas equivalent in a biological or chemical discipline.

English language requirements

You must have an English language minimum score of IELTS 6.0 (with no component below 5.5).

We offer comprehensive English language courses for students whose IELTS scores are below 6.0. Please see ELTD for full details.

As a university, we now accept many more English language tests in addition to IELTS for overseas applicants, for example, TOEFL and PTE Cambridge. View the full list of accepted English language tests here.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Firstly, unlike many Biomedical Sciences Masters courses, we offer you dedicated training in a broad suite of bioinformatics and practical laboratory skills. These will not only be great preparation for future research careers, but also a way to make the most of your summer research project.

Secondly, our taught classes capture the excitement of cutting-edge research fields.

The substantial choice of classes means that you'll get to select a clinical-oriented or basic life science research pathway to suit your future aspirations.

The course provides the perfect springboard to future training at PhD level or gives you a range of experience that will prove attractive to employers from industry or the health-care provision sector.

This course will provide training on fundamental techniques for the four disciplines:

• biochemistry
• immunology
• microbiology
• pharmacology

Aligned with the taught component of this course, these disciplines will form the grounding for your summer project.

You'll also learn vital transferable skills in statistics, communication, ethics, science writing and critical analysis of data – the perfect way to prepare for any future career.

Postgraduate Webinars

Join one of our postgraduate taught webinars to find out about the different courses in our Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and ask Department staff and our Admissions Team any questions you have. View all webinars.

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

Further info on fees and funding.