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My son has a conditional offer for graduation in Chemistry. If his grdades are good, he may wish to change over to Chemical Engineering instead. His A level subjects are Chemistry , Biology and Literature. Yes he dod not have maths at A level, but I think the same University has a foundation year followed by graduating in Chemical engineering ( 3 years ). Is that the right path

What does your son think he would get from a chemical engineering degree that he would not get from a chemistry degree?

A foundation year can be quite an expensive option- it uses up a year of student finance and means your son wouldn't get finance if he needed to resit a year. He'd also obviously have all the additional expense of being at uni for another year.

If he does go for a foundation year he needs to research his options carefully- not all foundation years automatically guarantee progression onto the undergrad course, and students can end up left in the lurch.

Personally, if he's got good A-levels grades, I'm not sure going for a foundation year at this stage would be a good choice.

Firstly thanks for your quick response. the answer to your question :-I suppose to land him a job quicker as a Chemical Engineer, compared to being a Chemistry graduate