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Chemistry

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Careers Network is here to support you by providing information, advice, guidance, events and opportunities to enable you to secure placements, work experience, self-employment and graduate careers.

Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice.  As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and Loughborough alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles. 

To find out more about what we do and how we can support you, visit Meet the teams. 

Details of the Placements Officers for your school can be found here.

We look forward to supporting you throughout your Loughborough journey.

Key skills developed during your degree

  • Scientific and technical understanding of organic, inorganic, analytical and physical chemistry concepts
  • Laboratory skills and experience, designing and conducting experiments, sample collection, instrument calibration, monitoring and recording data
  • Mathematical/numerical ability, including manipulating, interpreting and analysing data
  • Strong analytical skills and problem solving and good reasoning using knowledge of chemical science
  • time management and organisation
  • attention to detail
  • Written and oral communication, with the ability to present, share findings and research clearly
  • Ability to work effectively in teams
  • IT and technology
  • Project management: designing and undertaking scientific investigations including research, problem definition, goal-setting, experimental design and execution to evaluation and conclusion

Career options

Careers directly related to Chemistry:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

Further study

Further study at Loughborough University:

Postgraduate students are part of a stimulating and inclusive academic community within the Chemistry Department. They are regularly engaged in high-profile, high-impact research projects which continue to address real world problems in vital areas such as energy and the environment, defence and security, and health and medicine. Academic and research staff are nationally and internationally recognised as experts in their fields.

For more information please visit the Department of Chemistry Postgraduate study page

Further study elsewhere:

Find a Masters in Physics across the UK and Europe

Find a PhD across the world

 

Where do graduates go?

What do Loughborough Chemistry graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Google, Mondelez, 3M, Glaxo Smith Kline, NHS, Astra Zeneca, IBM, Cooper Parry, Johnson Matthey, Shell, PepsiCo, Pharmaron UK Ltd, Industrial Fragrances Ltd, Experian PLC, Nucleus Global, Thermal Fisher, Alliance Healthcare, Anglian Water, Deloitte, FDM, National Nuclear Laboratory, PWC

Roles Included:

Laboratory Technician, Science Teacher, Trainee Accountant, Cosmetic Chemist, Laboratory Analyst, Teacher of Science, Associate Scientist, Graduate Data Analyst, Research Scientist, Quality Control Scientist, Full Stack Developer, Process Development Chemist, Associate Medical Writer, Microbiology Lab Technician, Recruitment Consultant

Further study destinations included:

Loughborough, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Strathclyde, Oxford, Imperial, and Durham Universities

Further Information:

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

Resources to research career areas

Websites:

Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further. You will receive talks in your department and one-to-one appointments to help you with the recruitment process for this.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

Find a selection of useful job sites below.

Industry specific websites:

There are many specialist recruitment agencies, some of which are listed below:

You can find information on using recruitment agencies on the Prospects website here.

Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information:

Target Connect
Target Connect for Graduates & Researchers

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