Biology VS Biomedical Science

Heya! Biology is essentially a lot more broader than biomedicine as you study ecology and topics like evolution as well as the human body and can specialise in a particular area later on in your degree. Biomedical science has a key focus on the human body and disease.
For more in depth view on topics and units both subjects entail I would check out course content on some uni websites or ask on open days 💙

Hi, ok thats great thank you! so doing a biology degree allows me to specialise later on? my problem is, is that I am not a big fan of ecology and so I was thinking I should stick to the human bio side. do you think many unis will do a human biology degree? I know bath spa does. Thank you for your help

Happy to help! 💙 If you prefer the human biology then I would go for that, I recall when I went for open days and the modules for all the bioscience degrees were being presented, biology offered the most choice in modules as you have a pretty broad first year and choose what you find interest in later on. If your looking for human biology specifically I would go on websites like which uni to find and compare unis that suit your preferred grades.

Most Biomedical Science courses are non-clinical, and purely academic. There are some clinically oriented courses in this vein, but they are normally NHS sponsored programmes to prepare for the NHS BMS programme. If you want to learn about human biology a BMS course would be the normal approach. There isn't that much to human biology vs general mammalian biology if you disregard disease pathologies, or human sport/exercise science.

Alternately if you're more interested from a evolutionary point of view, Biological/Physical Anthropology (often only covered as part of an Archaeology course, as it's a rare degree on it's own - although it may be possible to specialise purely in this area in latter parts of an Archaeology degree, e.g. at Cambridge) or Human Sciences (which is only offered by three universities in the true sense, and by ~5 in name only). Human Sciences normally consider the evolution of humans as a species, and the development of modern human anatomy as a result of this. They usually balance the biological aspects with social/cultural considerations.