Benefitting from our research-active academics and strong professional links, you will gain the confidence to translate your ideas into practice. Our small and friendly department offers one of the best staff-to-student ratios in the country, ensuring that you will have an excellent, well-supported academic experience.

By the end of the Medicinal Chemistry (Hons) programme offered at the University of Surrey you will have the knowledge and skills you need to enter the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.

Careers and graduate prospects

We offer careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

Over the last decade, our employment figures have been among the best in the UK, with our graduates securing impressive salaries. We place 70-80 per cent of our graduates into graduate-level jobs, compared with the national average of 66 per cent.