Chemistry vs Material Science and Engineering

I think you should take some time and figure out what you are most passionate about.
It would be better to take a year out, take A-level maths or a foundation year and study what you want rather then compromise the rest of your career (40+ years).
There are lots of opportunities for both chemistry & materials scientists/engineers. From what ive seen if you want to work as a professional chemist (in a lab), you may well need a PhD as well as your undergraduate qualification.

Hi, thanks for the help. Unfortunately the uni I'm at wont let me do a foundation year because I have already completed a year of my course. There is no way to get around not having done maths A level is there? Like summer programs or whatnot. Do you think unis would be slightly flexible as I have done some math courses in my first year? I also am not sure what I want to do but I am sure I want a science degree at uni.
Thanks for the help

Do you have to stay at your current university? If so why?

Nope! I don't have to stay at my current uni (UOM) but they rank well for chemistry and engineering + I have housing arrangements. However, if i get accepted onto a better course I may switch but unfortunately my options without A level maths are quite limited for science degrees.

Nobody in the real world cares about university rankings.
You are better off spending an extra year/year out and studying what you want, where you want to move after uni, rather then compromise.

Chemistry is a solid degree, though prospects within chemistry aren't great... not in terms of salary anyway. Lab work tends to pay surprisingly poorly for the skill and education required.
Materials science is quite a niche degree - certainly within the engineering field. Materials engineers - and the various subfields that you can also go into, such as metallurgy, corrosion engineering, welding engineering, etc. - are certainly extremely useful in industry and sought after, though you may not find that many graduate positions compared to the main engineering disciplines.

Thank you for answering! I went to the chemistry open day and I don't think that is really my passion unfortunately. I am going to apply to material science and hope I get an offer. When I looked at jobs though many would be like accepting physics, chemistry, other engineering, material science etc. When I am in the engineering building looking at all the sciency stuff the engineers are building and stuff made me realise that I want to study engineering. I'm just worried that material science is less designing and building and more theoretical and like u said less graduate positions. However it does seem really interesting and I have seen that the prospects after graduating are quite broad. Its soo hard making a decision that would impact the whole trajectory of my life its so stressful.

In the context of designing things, the materials engineer's contribution is typically in the selection of appropriate materials. This requires a great deal of knowledge of material properties, performance, etc. Opportunities also exist to do failure analysis, or even develop new materials or improve existing ones.

Thanks for helping once again. May i ask if u studied this degree? Do you know the job prospects/pay/demand for this because I can enter other engineering disciplines if I take a foundation/gap year.