Chemical Engineering - Biology Necessary?

Hi all,

I am now going into my highers having chosen to study Maths, English, Chemistry, Physics and French.

Maths and Chemistry are two of my favourite subjects and I would ideally like to study Chemical Engineering and would love to work in the oil & gas industry.

I hope to get into a good Scottish University like Edinburgh but am now worrying that not having Biology will hold me back.

Any information regarding this would be greatly appreciated

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No, if your going specifically for the oil and gas industry,you don't need biology.
All you need is chemistry, Maths and preferably further maths.
Physics would serve you better than biology.

Posted from TSR Mobile

No, if your going specifically for the oil and gas industry,you don't need biology.
All you need is chemistry, Maths and preferably further maths.
Physics would serve you better than biology.

If i dont do further maths...will my application to do chem eng. be ignored (want to keep my options open doing maths and the 3 sciences)

If i dont do further maths...will my application to do chem eng. be ignored (want to keep my options open doing maths and the 3 sciences)

You won't need biology, unless you want to go into pharmaceuticals later on or something similar. I'll be studying biomedical engineering and you don't even need biology past SG/Higher level so I definitely don't think you'd need it for chemical

Ah okay, well I don't have it at National level either (Standard Grade) let alone higher, do you think that should be a problem?

Thanks

I'm considering either Biomedical or chemical engineering, or chemistry at uni so I wondered if you could tell me what grades got to get into the course and what uni you'll be studying at?

Not that necessary. There's some bio in bio reactors in 2nd year maybe but maths is the important one.

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My friend got into Strathclyde for Chem Eng. with the same subjects but geography instead of French. Her grades were AABBB.

Ah I see, thanks a lot for that!

Any ideas of what sort of advanced highers she took and how she performed in them? Just wondering, I often like think about 6th year and what sort of subjects I'll need to take when I get to that stage, and it's not very long until I'll be choosing them!