Bachelor of Natural Sciences (NatSci)

My classes will start next month and I chose the course because it doesn’t just cover one area. But now I’m confused when the career… I don’t know what the person can do or not. I was interested in the field of Pharmacobotany, but wouldn’t a person with a degree in pharmacy be more suited to working with it? And if it really is possible to work in this area, what would differentiate me and what would I do there?

I’m very lost… To top it off, I don’t see much talk about the course anywhere, much less direct job possibilities.

Hi there,

I'm a 4th year student on an integrated masters in Mathematics & Statistics. I agree that it can often be hard to find people talking about natural sciences and part of that may be because how varied the degree can be.

In terms of job prospects, it is hard to really give any advise when I don't know what subjects your natural sciences degree contains. However, I have friends who do natural sciences with maths as one of the subjects within the degree and they are looking at similar jobs to me who will just have a maths degree.

I would advise you to go and talk to your careers department at university, especially since you are interested in quite a specific field. They may be able to advise you on potential work experience, the best modules to take later on, further study you could do that is more specialised in what you are interested in or generally what career you could do in future.

Please feel free to ask me any questions.

Amy (Lancaster University Ambassador) 🙂