The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science brings together academic staff from the College of Science and Engineering in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology and Physics & Astronomy to deliver high quality, research led, interdisciplinary degree programmes.

Our degrees can be seen as 'Natural Sciences Plus' degrees as they go further than other combined science degrees by integrating all of the science strands in purpose designed modules with an emphasis on relevant, real world scenarios. Academic staff teaching on the Interdisciplinary Science degrees are experts in their field and are based within their own specialist departments at the Univeristy of Leicester. This means you are working with people who are pushing back the boundaries of their fields of research.

However, our biggest assets are our students. Interdisciplinary Science is a demanding course; it isn't enough to be good at just one subject. Because we are training researchers, students need to be flexible and inquisitive. Because we are also training people capable of managing projects we also need our students to be motivated and enthusiastic. If you apply for the course, then you'll find we interview applicants. We're don't teach by rote and good grades are not enough. If you want to succeed on this degree then you'll find it's not about accepting answers but about identifying questions.

The Interdisciplinary Science Degree is supported by the HE STEM Programme.

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