Why study BSc Biology (Hons) at Middlesex University?

This programme allows you to tailor your module choices from a range of traditional and contemporary biological disciplines so you can explore and develop your scientific interests towards specific career aspirations. There is a placement opportunity as part of this course between the second and third year, or an internship in your third year, to build crucial practical skills. You will learn to think like a scientist through theory classes and practical experimentation in our state-of-the-art labs.

BSc Biology is part of a new suite of biology courses, designed to offer choice and flexibility in the modules you study. There is a common first year that focuses on covering the fundamentals of biology so you have the option of changing pathway at the end of the first year. The other courses in this suite are:

• BSc Biology (Biotechnology)
• BSc Biology (Molecular Biology)
• BSc Biology (Environmental Biology)

Course highlights

• We will support you with finding the best placement or internship for you and help with making your application
• The course emphasises options and flexibility, permitting you to design your own approach to the study of biology
• Our labs provide the next generation of scientific instrumentation for molecular analysis post the genomic era - in line with the focus in scientific research on protein-hunting rather than gene-hunting
• You can select modules across a range of traditional and contemporary biological disciplines, including those from other pathways as well as some from environmental science and some biomedical sciences modules
• As a student of this course you'll receive aÊfree electronic textbookÊfor every module.