MSc Chemistry (Negotiated Learning)

The MSc Chemistry (Negotiated Learning) is a flexible course that offers a diverse array of modules in a variety of chemistry topics. The course is suitable for you if you wish to sample different sides of the discipline ranging from the mathematical, physical and materials disciplines to the biological end of the scientific spectrum.

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Duration

1 year (Full – time)
2 years (Part – time)

Starting Date

September

Tuition Fee

For information about tuition fees, please contact UCD using the enquiry form.

Location

Dublin, Ireland

About the programme

The MSc Chemistry (Negotiated Learning) from the University College Dublin offers initial academic advice to ensure that your module choices can match your career aspirations or areas of interest. 

If you wish to broaden your understanding of chemistry, you could choose a range of modules across the discipline. If you are interested in progressing to a PhD programme, or into particular industries, you may choose to concentrate on a specific area, e.g., chemical biology, nanochemistry, medicinal, sustainable or materials chemistry.

The UCD School of Chemistry has vibrant research in areas such as catalysis and new transformations, bionano interface, advanced spectroscopy, new materials for magnetic, medicinal, and electronic applications, and carbohydrate chemistry.

Career opportunities:

The MSc Chemistry (Negotiated Learning) provides a basis for graduates to enter the chemical, pharmaceutical, bio-pharmaceutical and materials industries. Analytical services, environmental protection and primary and secondary school teaching present other possible opportunities.

Furthermore, through judicious choice of modules within one particular sub-discipline of chemistry, the programme is an attractive route for some students into a PhD programme.

Programme Structure

Sample Modules and Topics (Subject to change and are not guaranteed by UCD):

  • Advanced Synthetic Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Advanced Spectroscopy
  • Advanced Crystallography
  • Commercialisation of Laboratory Research
  • Biological, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  • Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry
  • Nanochemistry
  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry

Admissions Requirements

  • This programme is intended for applicants with an honours undergraduate Chemistry degree, or a degree with a significant component of chemistry (NFQ Level 8 or equivalent). An upper second-class honours or international equivalent is required. However, all applicants will be assessed on a case-by-case basis and relevant or extensive work experience will be taken into account, so that in certain exceptional cases an award at a lower level or a 2.2 classification may be considered.
  • Applicants whose first language is not English must also demonstrate English language proficiency of IELTS 6.5 (no band less than 6.0 in each element), or equivalent. Students meeting the programme’s academic entry requirements but not the English language requirements, may enter the programme upon successful completion of UCD’s Pre-Sessional or International Pre-Master’s Pathway programmes.
  • These are the minimum entry requirements – additional criteria may be requested for some programmes 

Student Testimonial

I chose to undertake the MSc Chemistry (Negotiated Learning) course as a pathway to both refreshing and improving my chemistry knowledge with hopes that it would lead to further career and postgraduate opportunities. In my time at UCD, I was challenged by a broad range of topics in organic, inorganic and physical chemistry, whilst interacting with lecturers and professors and gaining insight to the requirements of further postgraduate study in a PhD. The climate in UCD School of Chemistry was welcoming and supportive, with the Chemistry Society providing a way to meet peers and colleagues that are still in my life to this day. The final lab project is an important aspect of the course and helped to reintegrate me into a research environment and eventually led to undertaking a PhD in chemistry. This has helped me in my career by allowing me to travel to France and Germany in a research capacity and find an exciting role as a Process Development Scientist in Ireland.

Cillian O’Beirne, Process Development Scientist

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