Biomedical Science MSc
University of East LondonStratford Campus, London
Course overview
This course offers you an ideal opportunity to enhance your career prospects in a range of specialist areas within biomedical science. You will enrich and update your knowledge, gaining a postgraduate qualification which will help you achieve progression at work. This IBMS-accredited course is carefully tailored to maximise your employability within bioscience and offers an unrivalled range of professional expertise and top-class facilities.
You will learn both practical and theoretical aspects of clinical chemistry, medical microbiology, cellular pathology, and haematology. It will offer you the chance to study a core MSc alongside a specialisation within different areas of biosciences. This course is designed and tailored to your own preferred specialism in either of the following: Clinical Biochemistry and Toxicology, Health and Disease of Physiological Systems, Clinical Microbiology and Infectious disease control, and Immunology and Immunotherapy.
You will learn about research methods and how to use diagnostics when detecting diseases or other medical conditions in order to assess potential treatments. Teaching will be based on lectures, seminars, workshops, independent web-based learning, and laboratory-based learning in our state-of-the-art facilities. The broad field of learning also suits people who are simply interested in furthering their knowledge of the subject.
The course can be worked around a full-time job and there are intermediate awards available - a Postgraduate Diploma and a Postgraduate Certificate.
Key highlights
- Accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)
- Covers clinical chemistry, medical microbiology, cellular pathology and haematology
- Choose a specialism, including Immunology and Immunotherapy or Clinical Microbiology
- Laboratory-based learning in state-of-the-art facilities
- Research methods and disease diagnostics for assessing potential treatments
- Intermediate Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate awards available
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — to include relevant subject; or above
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
Early Payment Discount
If you are starting your postgraduate course in academic year, you can save 5 per cent on your course fees by paying them in full.
Careers this course leads to
- Biomedical scientist
- Clinical biochemist
- Clinical microbiologist
- Immunologist
- Research scientist
- Toxicologist
Cost of study
UK/Home: £11340 per year | International: £11340 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of East London, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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