Chemistry is a very wide-ranging science, seeking to understand matter at the atomic and molecular level. It features intrinsically in many areas of today’s world and daily life, topical issues, and current events. Important facets of Chemistry at Oxford are synthesis, structure, microscopic mechanisms, properties, analysis, and transformations of all types of materials.
Subject Intake: Six.
Course Duration: Four Years (MChem).
Course Listing and Admissions Criteria: Chemistry at Oxford.
Chemistry at Oxford is a four-year course, leading to a Masters degree. All students are provided with a solid grounding in core topics, tools, and techniques, but you are also given significant flexibility to specialise in their own individual areas of interests, and even to venture into related disciplines (most obviously Biochemistry, but this is just one example).
Year four of the Oxford Chemistry course comprises full-time work with an established research group, culminating in a research report/dissertation.
Practical laboratory sessions, teaching essential experimental skills, are key aspects of this degree, and practical skills are assessed throughout the course. 'Labs' take place in the Department of Chemistry’s excellent facilities.
Nearly all tutorial teaching is 'in-house', ensuring continuity and close co-ordination
Merton's chemists do well in examinations, with a consistently high proportion achieving First Class degrees
Merton provides generous academic grants and funding for research projects and travel
Merton’s student-run chemistry society, the Frederick Soddy Society, holds a variety of events, social activities and talks throughout the year, which are ever popular.
Merton Chemistry brings together chemists from all three Common Rooms (undergraduates, postgraduates, and tutors). They are a sizeable group, which makes for lively discussion and debate, and a strong sense of community.
Undergraduates at Merton typically spend a year or two living in Holywell Street, only five minutes from the Department and its lecture theatres and labs.
