The broad aim is to enable and inspire graduates to pursue professional careers, nationally or internationally, in industry, commerce or academia. Programmes are designed to give students a thorough grounding in the principles and practices of chemical engineering as well as in the topics which underpin professional chemical engineering, ranging from the pure sciences through to information technology, communication, laboratory and design skills. Students will develop skills including: specialist scientific knowledge project management resource management health and safety problem solving decision making creativity communication Skills leadership skills IT business and legal knowledge.

There are a huge range of career options and job prospects are excellent. Chemical engineers are rated as the third highest graduate earners in the UK with an average graduate salary of £28,000. Our programmes develop the professional skills that are highly valued by employers worldwide in key areas such as developing new products, process design and optimisation. Recent graduates careers have included: Plant management - overall responsibility for a plant Project engineering - organising and running projects for other companies Operations engineering - ensure the process runs smoothly Plant commissioning - design and set up new processes Consultancy - developing specialised areas of processes Economic analysis - working in the financial sector Marketing and management - taking a new product to market Research - take a PhD and specialise in developing new technologies.