Program Overview

Kick start and enhance your career prospects with our degree in Plant Biology with integrated year in industry.  This course has been developed to give you a competitive edge in the jobs market by responding to employer expectations that you have some relevant industrial experience. Upon successful completion of this degree, you will have developed the knowledge, skills and the professional awareness that employers will want. The scheme focuses on plants as an essential foundation for life on earth; their value to our daily lives; the crucial future role of plant biology in helping to solve some of the most serious problems facing the humanity including food shortages and responding to rising greenhouse gas emissions. Never before has there been such urgency to train you the new generation of plant biologists who can develop future technologies and approaches to respond to these challenges.

Why study Plant Biology with integrated year in industry at Aberystwyth?

• A syllabus that includes an integrated year in industry in addition to identical content from the three-year sister course BSc Plant Biology (C200).
• The option to take on paid or voluntary work.
• You will be provided with guidance and advice from our Director for Employability on how you will find relevant work for a period of up to twelve months.
• The option of transferring to three year BSc Plant Biology C200 course if you do not find an opportunity that suits you.
• During your year in work experience, you will pay a discounted tuition fee of which the information can be found here
• Receive expert training in field and laboratory skills taught by world-leading experts in the field.
• Flourish and develop your skills in our modern teaching and research facilities.
• All students have access to the Biological Service Unit, Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Unit, Modelling laboratory, the Computational Biological laboratory, Advanced Microscopy and Bio-imaging Laboratory.