Undergraduate Biotechnology 2026-2027

• A pre-requisite for all students intending to apply for a year’s industrial placement.
• This course covers the skills necessary to complete placement applications by exploring CV preparation, writing covering letters, completing application forms, identification of your skill sets and good interview technique.
• The course will prepare you for the workplace by making you aware of general employability skills and by helping you identify your own transferable skills.

“The central theme of this second Biobusiness course is preparing you for a future as an innovative problem-solver, whether you choose a career in big pharma, medium biotech, a micro startup or in research. It isn’t so much about being an entrepreneur as being entrepreneurial.

In the world of biomedicine and biotechnology, it is the individual who sees opportunities where others see challenges who drives innovation…and goes on to change the world.

When you make that discovery or invention, will you be prepared to seize the opportunity and change the world?

In the world of biomedicine and biotechnology, it is the small, nimble, dynamic, entrepreneurial companies who drive innovation…and go on to change the world.

When you go to work for that dynamic start-up company, will you have the right mindset and skills to ensure that the product reaches the patient or the customer?”

• this is the final course of 3 on Bio-Business and deals in depth with finance, corporate governance and business models;
• the major assessment involves the students working together in teams to set up a virtual bio-business and to pitch this business to a group of experts in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector;
• the team will adopt the roles of senior management team and present to the experts their part of the business

• an industrial placement allows students to experience workplace culture and makes them more effective employees following graduation;
• placements vary considerably but in general terms, students are placed in an industrial, commercial or research environment where they obtain a breadth of practical experience to complement their degree programme;
• students are employed by their host company and can expect to work a normal 40 hour week, possibly on a number of projects, over a full calendar year;
• tutorial assistance from a member of the University academic staff is available via email and / or telephone throughout the year