Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry at Imperial College London

About

Course overview

Build your appreciation of the chemical sciences and the drug development process in this four-year course.

Designed to prepare you for a career in the pharmaceutical industry or biomedical research, this course will help you develop an interconnected understanding of core chemistry topics.

You'll deepen your knowledge of key topics relating to inorganic, organic, physical, analytical, synthetic and computational chemistry. You'll also focus on the identification, development and production of new drugs.

Extensive laboratory-based work will help develop your practical skills. You'll learn to synthesise chemicals and study chemical systems and build expertise in experimental measurements and computational models.

As the course develops, you'll study strategies for targeting diseases and work with complex portfolios of data. This includes opportunities to specialise across a series of advanced topics in your third and fourth year.

Part of your studies will see you analyse emergent ‘industry 4.0’ approaches and technologies such as rapid prototyping, biohacking and machine learning.

Your study reaches Master's level in your final year, where your work will culminate with a substantial research project.

Teaching is primarily delivered at our South Kensington campus, as well as the state-of-the-art Molecular Sciences Research Hub in White City.

Build your appreciation of the chemical sciences and the drug development process on this five-year course.

Incorporating a year in industry, this course will prepare you for a career in the pharmaceutical and related industries, or in biomedical research.

You'll develop an interconnected understanding of core chemistry topics, and deepen your knowledge of inorganic, organic, physical, analytical, synthetic and computational chemistry.

You'll also focus on the identification, development and production of new drugs.

Extensive laboratory-based work will help develop your practical skills. You'll learn to synthesise chemicals and study chemical systems and build expertise in experimental measurements and computational models.

As the course develops, you'll study strategies for targeting diseases and work with complex portfolios of data. This includes opportunities to specialise across a series of advanced topics in your third and fourth year.

Part of your studies will see you analyse emergent ‘industry 4.0’ approaches and technologies such as rapid prototyping, biohacking and machine learning.

Your fourth year is spent in industry. During this period, you'll place chemistry in an industrial context on an extended placement with a leading industrial partner. Previous placement partners have included GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

Your study reaches Master's level in your final year, where your work will culminate with a substantial research project.

Teaching is primarily delivered at our South Kensington campus, as well as the state-of-the-art Molecular Sciences Research Hub in White City.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum entry standard

AAA

To include:

A in Chemistry
A in Mathematics
A in a third subject (Biology, Economics, and Physics are preferred)

Not accepted: General Studies and Critical Thinking
Science Practical Endorsement: If you are made an offer you will be required to achieve a pass in the practical endorsement in all science subjects that form part of the offer.

Typical offer

A*AA (applicants studying three A-levels)

Offers made to at least 50% of 2024 entry A-level applicants to this department.

Support for widening participation applicants

Our contextual admissions route for UK applicants may entitle you to additional considerations within the application process to help us form a more complete picture of your potential to succeed at Imperial.

Find out more about who is eligible and what support you may receive.

Minimum entry standard

AAA

To include:

A in Chemistry
A in Mathematics
A in a third subject (Biology, Economics, and Physics are preferred)

Not accepted: General Studies and Critical Thinking
Science Practical Endorsement: If you are made an offer you will be required to achieve a pass in the practical endorsement in all science subjects that form part of the offer.

Typical offer

A*AA (applicants studying three A-levels)

Offers made to at least 50% of 2024 entry A-level applicants to this department.

Support for widening participation applicants

Our contextual admissions route for UK applicants may entitle you to additional considerations within the application process to help us form a more complete picture of your potential to succeed at Imperial.

Find out more about who is eligible and what support you may receive.

Minimum entry standard

38 points

To include:

6 in Chemistry at higher level
6 in Mathematics at higher level
6 in a third subject at higher level (Biology, Economics or Physics are preferred)

Preferred Mathematics syllabus: The Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or the Applications and Interpretation syllabi will be accepted at higher level with no preference.

Typical offer

39 points

Offers made to at least 50% of 2024 entry IB applicants to this department.

Support for widening participation applicants

Our contextual admissions route for UK applicants may entitle you to additional considerations within the application process to help us form a more complete picture of your potential to succeed at Imperial.

Find out more about who is eligible and what support you may receive.

Minimum entry standard

38 points

To include:

6 in Chemistry at higher level
6 in Mathematics at higher level
6 in a third subject at higher level (Biology, Economics or Physics are preferred)

Preferred Mathematics syllabus: The Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or the Applications and Interpretation syllabi will be accepted at higher level with no preference.

Typical offer

39 points

Offers made to at least 50% of 2024 entry IB applicants to this department.

Support for widening participation applicants

Our contextual admissions route for UK applicants may entitle you to additional considerations within the application process to help us form a more complete picture of your potential to succeed at Imperial.

Find out more about who is eligible and what support you may receive.

English Program Requirements

Duolingo English Test

Standard Level	Higher Level
115 overall with no less than 105 in any band score	125 overall with no less than 115 in any band score
*Test scores are only considered valid if taken within 2 years of the intended course start date.

Find out more on the Duolingo website.

IELTS – Academic (Test-Centre/UKVI SELT/Online)

Summary **of the table's contents**
Standard	Higher
6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all elements)	7.0 overall (minimum 6.5 in all elements)

*IELTS single score re-takes are not accepted. Candidates must meet the IELTS requirements on a single test sitting.

Imperial College London considers IELTS scores to be valid for 2 years.

Scores must be valid at the beginning of your studies at Imperial if your application is successful.

Find out more on the IELTS website.

LanguageCert International ESOL

Standard level	Higher level
ESOL B2 Test (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking) with grade High Pass	ESOL C1 (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking) with grade pass in all components

*Test scores are only considered valid if taken within two years of the intended course start date.

Find out more on the LanguageCert website.

Occupational English Test

Standard Level	Higher Level
Grade C+/300 in all elements	Grade B/350 in all elements
Test results must be within 12 months of programme start date in order to be treated as valid and subject to online verification. OET Paper/Computer at test centre and OET@Home accepted.

Standard Level

Higher Level

Grade C+/300 in all elements

Grade B/350 in all elements

*Test results must be within 12 months of programme start date in order to be treated as valid and subject to online verification.

*OET Paper/Computer at test centre and OET@Home accepted.

Find out more on the Cambridge website.

PTE – Academic (Test-Centre/UKVI SELT)

Summary of the table's contents
Standard	Higher
62 overall (minimum 56 in all elements)	69 overall (minimum 62 in all elements)

Imperial College London considers Pearson (PTE) scores to be valid for 2 years.

Scores must be valid at the beginning of your studies at Imperial if your application is successful.

For more information regarding Pearson, please visit the Pearson website.

PTE Academic online test results are only accepted (where valid) for entry for those starting courses up to 31 December 2023.

TOEFL (iBT) and (iBT Paper)

Summary of the **table's contents**
Standard	Higher
92 overall (minimum 20 in all elements)	100 overall (minimum 22 in all elements)

*ETS at Home accepted for admission

Imperial College London considers TOEFL scores to be valid for 2 years.

Scores must be valid at the beginning of your studies at Imperial if your application is successful.

You must meet the entry requirement in one test from your scaled scores ('My Best Scores' reported by TOEFL will not be considered).

For more information relating regarding TOEFL please visit the ETS website.

You must email your TOEFL scores to the relevant admissions teams.

Score reports sent via post will not be processed.

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

GBP 45,500

Application Fee

GBP

Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry

Imperial College London

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