Our Biological Sciences degree is a broad-based programme which allows you to combine a wider range of subjects than a single Honours degree. Royal Society of Biology Accredited Degree The huge breadth of biology offers a corresponding wealth of opportunities for students who choose to study it to follow many paths through to a final degree. Biological sciences is the growth industry of the 21st century, with increasing capacity for humans to intervene in, control and perhaps repair defective biological systems. Genetic manipulation of plants and animals, in particular, offers enormous possibilities for improving our lives but, at the same time, there are inherent dangers present in the unthinking application of these techniques. The next generation of professional biologists will have to play an important role, not only in the continued development of such methods, but also in deciding how they can be responsibly and safely applied. Our relationship with the rest of the natural world is one which has been established over many hundreds of millions of years, and the early modules of the biological sciences programme have a strong evolutionary theme. They emphasise the fact that it is impossible to understand any aspect of biology unless you have a clear understanding of its most important general theory – evolution by natural selection.

Statistics for recent years show us that our graduates find employment in a very wide variety of destinations. Perhaps most importantly, our graduates consistently figure close to the top of national league tables of graduate employment in life sciences. Examples of recent employment destinations for Dundee life sciences graduates include government research institutes, teaching and research in universities, teaching in primary and secondary schools, the pharmaceutical and food industries, and conservation bodies. Throughout your studies you will also be developing transferable skills such as: information processing use of computers problem solving experimental design analysis and critical evaluation of scientific literature report writing making presentations communication time management These will help to ensure that you have the skills to make you attractive to a wide range of employers.