Explore a Master’s in Natural Sciences at Loughborough! Gain interdisciplinary skills, hands-on experience, and mentorship. Apply now!
The Natural Sciences Master of Science (Hons) course offers flexibility to study a combination of physical sciences including chemistry, bioscience, mathematics, geography, physics and materials. Building on the University’s established reputation in the fields of biosciences, chemistry, materials, mathematics and physics, course is a broad-based single honours degree that combines a variety of pathways from a range of life and physical science, as well as opportunities for interdisciplinary study. Developing the powerful skills needed to work between disciplines and communicate across them, the Natural Sciences degree is taught by academic staff who are internationally renowned experts in their respective fields and active in interdisciplinary research. Students will be mentored to work independently and across the disciplines, conducting their own laboratory-based project. The program concludes with a major research project and advanced level training in the student's own chosen subject. Advances in the sciences are much more prevalent at the interface between the disciplines. This course offers students the chance to learn how to capitalize on the knowledge from multiple disciplines, with a focus on working and communicating across the sciences. These transferable skills are extremely relevant, and needed more and more for tackling real-world challenges.
