Natural Sciences

Natural sciences is a programme designed for students who refuse to be confined to a single scientific discipline. All around us the world faces complex problems that increasingly require scientists to adopt a multidisciplinary approach in the search for solutions. Natural sciences gives you the freedom and the framework to combine two or more of the sciences at degree level, developing real depth across multiple disciplines rather than the superficial coverage of a single-subject degree with optional modules.

At Loughborough University, this four-year full-time programme allows you to combine subjects from the natural sciences according to your interests and strengths, covering areas such as biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics in combinations that reflect the genuinely interdisciplinary nature of contemporary science. You will develop the specialist knowledge of each discipline alongside the ability to move between scientific frameworks, which is increasingly the kind of thinking that research and applied science require. A year abroad is built into the programme, giving you the experience of studying in a different national and scientific context.

Entry typically requires around 136 UCAS tariff points.

Natural sciences graduates go on to work in research and development, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, environmental science, data science, science communication, education, and a very wide range of roles where breadth of scientific knowledge is an advantage. The combination of multiple scientific disciplines at a high level makes graduates unusual and adaptable in a job market that increasingly values people who can work across disciplinary boundaries. Many continue to postgraduate study in a specific scientific field.