Applicants who have not had their secondary or tertiary education through the medium of English are expected to have attained the equivalent of an IELTS score of at least 6.5 from an IELTS provider, which is approved by Keele University. Applicants are invited to contact the University before taking the IELTS test.
It is expected that applicants will already hold an honours degree in a scientific discipline appropriate to the chosen research project area that includes a good basic understanding of analytical chemistry and instrumentation, although each application will be considered on an individual basis.
The minimum degree category for entry onto this programme is lower second class degree, in line with the 50% pass mark required for successful completion of this course.
Consideration will be given to candidates who do not meet these criteria, but can evidence appropriate, alternative professional qualifications and/ or experience.
Students offered a place on the MSc Analytical Science for Industry course will be interviewed for a place at their preferred placement.
As a student on the programme, you will benefit from our research expertise and our links with industries that provide the foundation for work placement opportunities.
All students on this MSc will undertake a 30 week placement with an industrial context, either in Keele University’s laboratories or at the industrial partner’s premises, which will ultimately boost your employability skills.
The focus of this master's degree is very much on each student acquiring the scientific knowledge, the technical skills and the wide range of professional skills to enable them to start their career working with confidence in an industrial or international laboratory context.
This one-year master’s programme (if full-time) aims to provide highly employable graduates who not only have a broad education in analytical sciences but also in the industrial context (commercial awareness and IP matters; science and technology transfer; entrepreneurship), together with a theoretical and practical understanding of the selected analytical techniques used in industry.
AIMS OF THE COURSE
Students on the MSc Analytical Science for Industry programme will benefit from the expertise of staff at Keele in analytical chemistry, analytical biochemistry, environmental analysis and forensic analysis, as well as from the distinctive scientific and analytical interests of the industrial partners. The programme is delivered in two stages (if full-time): the first semester comprises study of modules at Keele while for the second and third semesters, students undertake extended industrial project work either at Keele or with an industrial partner in the UK.
In addition to the development of discipline-specific research and technical skills, students will be supported in enhancing key professional and employability skills through developing critical thinking, innovation, reflective writing, autonomous learning and written and oral presentation skills: all vital skills for future employment, lifelong learning and continued professional development irrespective of the student’s chosen career path.
The focus of the MSc Analytical Science for Industry programme is learning through research and the substantial ‘hands-on’ research training with industrial partnership makes this a distinctive course in the UK Higher Education Sector. Plus, the students can choose between either industrially-based research projects or Keele-based research projects with industrial input. The programme title encompasses the distinctive conjunction of industrial context for analytical science.
TEACHING FACILITIES
The Lennard-Jones analytical teaching laboratories are fully equipped with multiple sets of FTIR spectrometers, UV-VIS spectrometers, fluorescence spectrometers, HPLC and GC-MS instrumentation, NMR spectrometers (with probes for both solid- and liquid-state), an Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES), and a Raman microscope. Analytical Science for Industry students also have access to XRD (powder and single crystal diffraction), XRF and a scanning electron microscope (with EDX analysis) within the School, but also a range of electron microscopes (SEM and TEM) within the Faculty.
Further specialised analytical instrumentation can be found within the research laboratories either at Keele University (e.g. the research Analytical Science Laboratories, the Birchall Centre, which comprise various state-of-the-art equipment such as several mass-spectrometers, an atomic absorption spectrometer with graphite furnace, numerous chromatography-based instrumentations, a near-IR spectrometer) or within the premises of the industrial partners.
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1 YEAR FULL-TIME
SEMESTER 1
Research Skills for Analytical Science - 15 Credit
Analytical Science: Principles & Practice - 30 Credits
Research in Industry - 15 Credits
SEMESTER 2 AND 3
MSc Independent Research Project: Research Communication ) – 30 credits
MSc Independent Research Project: Report – 60 credits
MSc Independent Research Project: Portfolio – 30 credits
The programme will enable all students to evidence professional experience which will significantly raise their employability potential.
Please view our student case studies - Jodie Wright and Richard Berrisford.
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