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MSc Materials Science or MSc Advanced Composites & Polymers

Would anyone here have an opinion on whether either of these MSc courses is better to have when looking for employment later? I'll already have a BSc Physics.

1) MSc Materials Science (at a much better ranked university than below, and includes some programming)
2) MSc Advanced Composites & Polymers (includes no programming)


I was thinking perhaps Materials Science because it's more general.

Perhaps Advanced Composites & Polymers is too specialised, though fine if you know you want to work specifically in that area (which I don't as yet know)?
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Unless you know for sure that you want a job "specifically in that area" then I would sway towards the course at the "much better ranked university" purely because I think people outside your field are going to care more about the difference in university prestige than they are about the differences between two fairly similar postgraduate degrees that arent directly relevant to what you're applying for.

I'm not a physicist though, so take this with a grain of salt.
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Original post by Schaeler2014
Would anyone here have an opinion on whether either of these MSc courses is better to have when looking for employment later? I'll already have a BSc Physics.

1) MSc Materials Science (at a much better ranked university than below, and includes some programming)
2) MSc Advanced Composites & Polymers (includes no programming)


I was thinking perhaps Materials Science because it's more general.

Perhaps Advanced Composites & Polymers is too specialised, though fine if you know you want to work specifically in that area (which I don't as yet know)?


Materials science, because it's more broad and hence is less likely to pigeon hole you into a specific area.

Is this a pure materials science MSc or is it a materials and engineering science MSc?
Go for oxbridge or the top unis!!!

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Original post by Smack

Is this a pure materials science MSc or is it a materials and engineering science MSc?


Thank you Smack.

To give the course its full title:

MSc in Materials Science for Innovative Engineering

Is this good/bad...?
Original post by Schaeler2014
Thank you Smack.

To give the course its full title:

MSc in Materials Science for Innovative Engineering

Is this good/bad...?


Yeah, sounds good.

Does it also cover, however briefly, things like welding and NDT/NDE?
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Original post by Smack
Yeah, sounds good.

Does it also cover, however briefly, things like welding and NDT/NDE?


I think it's unlikely to cover welding. What is NDT/NDE?

Below are the modules:

Core modules:
Fundamentals of Materials Science
Materials Characterisation
Materials Science Case Study
Magnetic and Electronic Materials

Optional Modules:
Materials Science Research Project
Plasmonic and Optical Materials
Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
Thin Film Techniques and Sensor Technology
Materials Modelling and Simulation
Original post by Schaeler2014
I think it's unlikely to cover welding. What is NDT/NDE?

Below are the modules:

Core modules:
Fundamentals of Materials Science
Materials Characterisation
Materials Science Case Study
Magnetic and Electronic Materials

Optional Modules:
Materials Science Research Project
Plasmonic and Optical Materials
Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
Thin Film Techniques and Sensor Technology
Materials Modelling and Simulation


NDT/NDE stands for non-destructive testing/examination, i.e. methods of ensuring material integrity, e.g. that there are no internal cracks, without actually destroying the sample. It includes things like ultrasonic testing, and many more.

Just asking about those, because at the companies I have worked at, they've both came under the scope of a materials engineer.

Although I appreciate that there is a difference in materials science and materials engineering.
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Thanks again.

Original post by Smack
NDT/NDE stands for non-destructive testing/examination, i.e. methods of ensuring material integrity, e.g. that there are no internal cracks, without actually destroying the sample.


I suspect that won't be covered.

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