Industry links
We enrich our industry-focused curriculum through our connections with industry experts. Their input includes guest lectures, mentoring, and offering visits to their companies.
Placements
We also encourage you to undertake a one-year industrial placement between your second and final year. Placements provide an invaluable opportunity to put your learning into practice. They also help you to understand the context for your new knowledge. Our students have gained placements with multinationals such as GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and Sanofi-Aventis.
"We have had a number of undergraduates and graduates from the University of Sunderland over the past 25 years. Because of the usual high standards found in the candidates we will continue to recruit from the University. We can rely on a Sunderland graduate to have the experience and knowledge needed to begin the essential and rigorous training programme that Onyx conducts. This has been the case for a number of years now, reflected in the fact that there are a lot of Sunderland graduates who occupy senior positions within the current analytical team."
Simon Olley, Analytical Services Manager, Onyx Scientific
"As an employer of Sunderland graduates, we recognise the quality of teaching in pharmaceutical sciences at the University, as well as the readiness to translate into an industrial setting following graduation. In recognition of this excellence, we offer continued support through visiting lectures which will enhance the student experience and employability of Sunderland graduates."
Stephen J Byard, Principal Research Fellow (Science and Technology), Quotient Sciences
Facilities and techniques
Our Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Sciences courses are based in the John Dawson Sciences Complex at City Campus.
