BSc Immunology with Industrial/Professional Experience

• Spend the third year of your degree gaining valuable workplace experience to enhance your CV, choosing from placements all over the world.
• Understand how the immune system protects us, and also how it can go wrong and cause disease, as in autoimmune conditions and allergies.
• Learn about ways the immune system can be used to prevent disease and promote better clinical outcomes, as in vaccines and in situations of transplantation and cancer therapy.

Immunology is a highly dynamic field that impacts topical and emerging issues within both the biomedical and biological science disciplines.

Our BSc Immunology with Industrial/Professional Experience course will see you learn about the components, principles and mechanisms of a healthy immune system, and how they co-ordinate to mount safe and appropriate protection against infection. The course will also enable you to gain experience of the workplace on a year-long placement during your degree, making you more attractive to potential employers after graduation.

During your studies you will establish how the immune system can distinguish between healthy and damaged self and identify dangerous non-self, how it can tune responses to protect against different types of infectious agents and how responses vary in different anatomical sites, such as in the skin, gut and lung.

In addition to establishing the workings of a healthy immune system, you will also how the immune system can go wrong ad cause inappropriate or insufficient immunity, such as in cases of allergy, autoimmunity and immune deficiency. Other topics covered will include the current and emerging use of immune molecules in diagnostic and clinical intervention strategies, including therapeutic manipulation of the immune system for cancer treatment, vaccine development and transplant tolerance.

In Year 3, you will have the opportunity to go on a placement with one of our trusted partner organisations in the UK or abroad. Alternatively, you can choose to arrange your own placement (subject to approval from the School of Biological Sciences).

Placements range from research project work to roles in education, the biotechnology industry and science communication.

The flexible, modular nature of our course means you can follow special interests within the broader topic while you build your core subject-specific knowledge.

Our course has Advanced Accreditation from the Royal Society of Biology , which recognises academic excellence in the biosciences and highlights degrees that educate the research and development leaders and innovators of the future.

35-36 points overall with 6, 6, 5 to 6, 6, 6 at Higher Level including two science subjects, normally Biology and Chemistry.

All applicants to the University (from the UK and Overseas) are required to show evidence of English Language proficiency. The minimum English Language requirement for this course is either:

• GCSE/IGCSE English Language grade 4 or C;
• IELTS 6.5 (with no less than 6.5 in any component);
• an acceptable equivalent qualification.

Please note that if you hold English as a Second Language IGCSE qualification, we may also require you to offer one of our acceptable equivalent English Language qualifications or achieve a higher grade in your IGCSE than the one stated above. Please contact the academic School for clarification.

The UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires that every student from outside the UK and the EU must show evidence of a minimum level of English Language in order to be granted a UK visa (Student Visa) to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level. This level is often referred to as the B2 level.

Additionally, our individual Schools may ask for specific English Language proficiency levels that are necessary for their academic programmes. In most cases these requirements are likely to be higher than the B2 level. Further information about our English Language policy, including a list of some of the English Language qualifications we accept, can be found here .

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