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Neuroscience at University of Nottingham - UCAS

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2025 - 20262026 - 2027
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This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

University of Nottingham has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Would you like to understand neurological diseases such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s? Accredited by the Royal Society of Biology, in this course you'll study the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, as well as neurological diseases and disorders. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the brain, spinal cord, and neurological diseases, with an accredited Neuroscience degree, preparing you for a career in clinical research, pharmaceuticals, or academic science. Course overview Our degree programme convers concepts from the genome through to human based clinical neuroscience. Topics studied will include:

  • behaviour
  • cellular and molecular biology
  • experimental design
  • genetics
  • pharmacology
  • physiology
  • neuroanatomy
  • neuroimmune interactions
  • environmental neuroscience
BSc or MSci? MSci degrees are undergraduate-level courses which last for four years and have an integrated master's qualification. They are the equivalent to a BSc plus a master's level qualification. The MSci provides additional intensive laboratory research and the opportunity for you to add in industrial experience to enhance your future career prospects. Why choose this course?
  • Tailor your course to your unique interests with a range of optional modules
  • Study in one of the UK’s major teaching hospitals on a course with a strong clinical and pharmacological emphasis
  • Student feedback - excellent track record in student feedback on quality of teaching
  • Student support - a personal tutor assigned to you to provide academic and pastoral advice throughout the degree
  • Employability - good record in our students securing employment or postgraduate education
  • Laboratory experience begins in term one. You will benefit from cutting-edge labs, a personal tutor, advanced research labs and opportunities to work with imaging (SLIM, MRI, 3D), genomics, deep-seq, nanopore, flow cytometry and single-cell RNA sequencing
  • Capstone experience - in your final year, you can undertake a capstone project, applying your expertise to real-world challenges in a collaborative working group. Teaching is research-led, meaning you'll learn from academics actively working in cutting-edge research
  • Research - be trained by tutors who are active in real world research, giving you the skills necessary for your future career
  • Travel while you learn - opportunities through studying abroad at our campus in Malaysia or with our other partners

Modules

For detailed information about the modules you will study, please visit the course page: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus/ugstudy/courses/UG/Neuroscience-BSc-Hons-U6UNERSC.html

How to apply

This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

14Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
B140
Institution code:
N84
Campus name:
University Park Campus
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Neuroscience is one of the progression pathways for our Science with a Foundation Year course. Requirements for progression are: Foundation Biological Science - 55% Foundation Chemistry - 55% Overall pass - 40%

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus/ugstudy/courses/UG/Neuroscience-BSc-Hons-U6UNERSC.html

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5no less than 6.0 in any element
TOEFL (iBT)90Minimum of 22 in Speaking, 20 in Reading and 19 in Writing and Listening

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Channel Islands £9535* Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535* Year 1
England £9535* Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535* Year 1
Scotland £9535* Year 1
Wales £9535* Year 1
International £30750* Year 1
EU £30750* Year 1

*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Neuroscience at University of Nottingham - UCAS