Chemistry Degrees Online

Entry requirements
100 points entry onto the foundation level.

This will normally include chemistry and at least one other subject at A-level/Vocational A-level. This tariff may include level two or three Key Skills qualifications.

Applicants with equivalent qualifications – those who have completed an Access course, a suitable foundation year or have appropriate prior experience – are welcome. International qualifications are assessed for acceptability based on the UCAS guide to international equivalence and on an appropriate English qualification e.g. IELTS 6.5.

Students must complete the Foundation degree before undertaking the BSc (Hons) Chemical Sciences pathway.

Reasons to choose this course
This course is recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry for Associate Membership. Obtaining this additional professional qualification is likely to enhance your value to future employers.
The foundation degree offers an alternative route onto BSc (Hons) Chemical Sciences.
This course is flexible in structure, and students can choose to specialise in pharmaceutical chemistry, materials chemistry or environmental chemistry in the second year.
Modules contain significant amounts of practical work and directed assignments relevant to employers.

Purpose built facilities
Our laboratories are modern and well-equipped. They offer you access to up-to-date scientific, electronic and computing equipment, a state-of-the art electron microscope suite and facilities for:
gas and liquid chromatography
mass spectroscopy
atomic absorption spectroscopy
structure determination including powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction
solution and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
infrared spectroscopy and UV-visible spectroscopy.

Employability and careers

Chemistry graduates have excellent employment prospects and possess a wide range of academic and transferable skills. For example, IT, communication, presentation skills, time management and research techniques. These prepare students for careers where problem solving, wealth creation and improving the quality of life are important.

Studying chemistry at Nottingham Trent prepares you for employment in the chemical, pharmaceutical and related industries, for a higher research degree, or for a variety of careers in other science and non-science areas such as: the public sector; sales; marketing; computing; and teaching. Chemistry courses at Nottingham Trent have an excellent record of graduate employment.

Professional recognition
All our chemistry courses are recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry for Associate Membership. Obtaining this additional professional qualification is likely to enhance your value to future employers.

Nottingham: Science City

One of just six Government designated Science Cities in the UK, Nottingham is a hub of groundbreaking scientific work and opportunities. The city is already an international centre for research, home to some of the most important breakthroughs of recent times and the UK’s largest bioscience and innovation centre, BioCity. With students directly benefiting from investment in local science and technology projects, your future at NTU looks bright.

Applied chemistry is an exciting and interdisciplinary program that incorporates theory with practical techniques and gives students a deep foundation of knowledge and problem-solving ability on which they can build a variety of careers. Our department excels in providing basic and advanced undergraduate and graduate chemistry education. We offer a broad variety of courses, newly expanded facilities, and an active faculty with a reputation for excellence. In particular, the department prides itself on the quality of its teaching while also maintaining vigorous collaboration programs with industry, an imperative link to the advancement of high tech development.

The Department embodies the government’s industrial policy goals and southern Taiwan’s regional needs in nurturing today’s students into tomorrow’s outstanding chemistry professionals for the 21st century.

The Department focuses on developing applied technologies for major industries, such as the electronics, optoelectronics, and biotechnology industries. In order to achieve these goals, the Department focuses on synthetic chemistry, materials chemistry, and environmental analytic chemistry.

Synthetic Chemistry: Synthesis of new chemical compounds and its applications, development of new special chemicals from organic and inorganic materials.

Materials Chemistry: Characterization, research, and application of nanomaterials, semiconductor materials, high efficiency battery materials, and catalytic materials.

Environmental Analytic Chemistry: Development of new analytical procedures in improving environmental and drug analysis.

Goals

The collaborations between companies at the Hsinchu Science Park and its nearby universities have played a vital role in the nation’s economic success. The demand for the expertise in electronic, optoelectronic, and biotechnology industries concentrated in the southern Taiwan Science Park is growing exponentially. Moreover, the traditional chemical industry in the Kaohsiung region has been in decline and urgently needs qualified professionals for the turnaround. Therefore, the Department actively initiates close collaborations with industries, engages in challenging research in the applications of synthetic, materials, and environmental analytic chemistry, and nurtures tomorrow’s leaders for academia and industry.

Postgraduate Opportunities

Chemistry graduates are in demand in both academia and industry. Graduates may work in industries, such as cosmetics, petroleum, environmental protection, semiconductors, information technology, materials science, technology trend analysis, biochemistry, drug, food, or energy, and they may apply their education in industry, academia, or government agencies. Job functions of chemistry graduates are varied, including such job titles as chemical researcher, chemical analyst, quality assurance engineer, environmental analyst, processing engineer, chemical engineer, patent analyst, industry analyst, teacher, and others.

Future Outlook

Our University is centrally located in southern Taiwan’s traditional industrial region, and is adjacent to the Tainan Science Park. With this geographical advantage, the Department will play a vital role in producing caring communities and vibrant economies by nurturing future leaders, establishing collaborations between industry and academia, and assisting in the transformation of traditional industries.

Chemistry consists of two courses, Fundamental Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Chemistry, and offers excellent programs in inorganic, organic, physical, macromolecular, biological, theoretical, and computational chemistry. The department has faculty renowned in these fields. Sharing their excitement about chemistry, all of the faculty members are committed to both research and teaching. About 30 students are engaged in the pre-doctoral programs, and research in the laboratories equipped with modern instrumentation while attending classes on many areas of expertise within chemistry. Appropriate size and intimate atmosphere of the department lead to close interaction between faculty and students, thereby supporting not only the highest quality of education and research activities but intellectual and social life as well. Students who also want to study other fields of science such as biology, physics, and computer science can take those classes in view of these interdisciplinary approaches.

Course of Fundamental Chemistry
This course deals with the fundamental and frontier subjects in inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. It offers research programs in structural chemistry, chemical reactions, organic and inorganic syntheses, molecular dynamics, and physical chemistry of solutions. A wide variety of compounds such as metal complexes, organic heterocycles, liquid crystals and biopolymers are targeted for research in this course both experimentally and theoretically.

Course of Interdisciplinary Chemistry
This course covers extensive fields of chemistry that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries: coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, biological chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, quantum chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Synthetic, kinetic, genetic, and physicochemical approaches are adopted to analyze the structure of complex molecules, elucidate reaction mechanisms in biological systems, and develop novel functional molecules and materials.