Harness biotechnology to address society's biggest challenges, like disease and food production. Our biotech degree covers the creation of synthetic human insulin and the production of genetically modified foods. It's based in genetics and microbiology and their related laboratory techniques, but its uses go well beyond these disciplines, covering medicine, agriculture and environmental management.
You'll visit biotech companies to learn how this sector works and spend a lot of time in practical sessions. Plus, you'll get to use resources like our fluorescence and scanning electron microscopes, DNA extraction equipment, and climate-controlled insectaries.
Edge Hill is close to some of the UK's best nature reserves. So expect to visit locations including limestone woodlands, hay meadows and dune systems. Biotechnology is one of the fastest developing areas of science. Getting a degree in this subject will help you secure work in many biology-related fields.