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BSC vs MCHEM

Hi...i'm in two minds over choosing a BSC or MCHEM ?

Is anyone currently doing a MCHEM and would like to share their thoughts on it. MCHEM's are worth just a little below a masters and can be completed in the same time span as a BSC.

Are there any drawbacks ?

Reply 1

Fluffy

15

Just to reitterate PQ's comments.

The MChem is 4 years - I have several friends who did the MChem at UMIST. they usually invovle a year in industry too.

Reply 2

shiny

12

Is it just the same course but one with a fourth year and one without?

Reply 3

Mysticmin

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shiny

Is it just the same course but one with a fourth year and one without?

would MChem not be a higher qualification? Master of chemistry? :confused:

Reply 4

shiny

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Mysticmin

would MChem not be a higher qualification? Master of chemistry? :confused:

I meant the MChem is just the BSc course + an extra year. In which case it doesn't really matter what you choose now as entry into the fourth year is usually based on performance whilst at university and normally you will get another opportunity to choose (or not choose) after your first/second year results.

Reply 5

Fluffy

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Mysticmin

would MChem not be a higher qualification? Master of chemistry? :confused:

no - it's an 'advanced' degree. They were designed to give people a working knowledge of the subject was well as an academic one and preen peeps ready for a life down t'pit.. I mean in industry.

Reply 6

Mysticmin

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Fluffy

no - it's an 'advanced' degree. They were designed to give people a working knowledge of the subject was well as an academic one and preen peeps ready for a life down t'pit.. I mean in industry.

Heh heh... :biggrin:

Reply 7

halc

If you take a year's industrial experience, BSc and MChem's are both 4 years...

Reply 8

Fluffy

15

The courses are fundamentally different:

check out
http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/mchem.htm

Reply 9

Chicken

12

I'm doing the MChem, however have just PM'd you back so if there's anything I didn't mention in it then feel free to ask here!

Reply 10

hihihihi

Chicken

I'm doing the MChem, however have just PM'd you back so if there's anything I didn't mention in it then feel free to ask here!

hey, MChem is something i've recently been intrested in.
do you do much applied chemistry? eg pharmaceuticals involved in medicine etc and is it quite diverse (eg do you do some biochem too?)?
what kind of things can you do in the 4th year(industry)?

Reply 11

Chicken

12

hihihihi

hey, MChem is something i've recently been intrested in.
do you do much applied chemistry? eg pharmaceuticals involved in medicine etc and is it quite diverse (eg do you do some biochem too?)?
what kind of things can you do in the 4th year(industry)?

I don't do any pharmaceuticals, medicinal or biochemistry - my degree is in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry - so I do some applied analytical chem, but thats all, and I don't intend to take any biochemistry at all as thats not particularly part of my course. In your 4th year you do a research project (not a big one like for a PhD but you work as a group with some PhD students I think). Usually if you are doing an MChem program which incorporates a year in industry or abroad, it will be in your 3rd year (I intend to spend my third year in Canada).

Reply 12

Random.Girl

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I've got mates doing Chemistry (at Cardiff) and they pick after their first year of doing Chemistry whether they want to do a BSc or a MChem ... I think ... but they have to get 60% in the first year to be able to do MChem ... maybe the uni you're thinking of going to does something like that too?

Reply 13

Chicken

12

-Emmz-

I've got mates doing Chemistry (at Cardiff) and they pick after their first year of doing Chemistry whether they want to do a BSc or a MChem ... I think ... but they have to get 60% in the first year to be able to do MChem ... maybe the uni you're thinking of going to does something like that too?

Yup I have to get 50% overall on the year to do the MChem, though have to get 60% on the 3 core units (all the other units need 35% to pass, but obviously I need to do better than that really). Uni's are pretty flexible with the course throughout the first year - you are all doing the same thing for the first year and there's no real difference until you get to your second year, the uni will probably ask for a decision when you come back for your second year.

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