With your ambition and our support and expertise, you can achieve anything.
We are committed to helping you to make the best possible start in your career. To do this, we offer an array of opportunities to develop your skills and confidence, setting you up for success - from before you get here, while you’re here through to when you graduate - and beyond.
All our programmes now offer you the opportunity to spend a year on a work placement – a great way to boost your employability prospects by putting your learning into practice and making contacts in industry. We also offer a year abroad, a year in a language and a year in computing.
To help you make the transition to university, we offer our applicants tips and resources such as reading material and public talks. We know that this year in particular has been hard, and making the transition to university can seem daunting.
From sample lectures and talks - giving you an insight into our academics, their research and the subject more widely - to recommended reading lists and tips for making the leap, we are here to help you feel confident to make the most out of your time with us.
We put on a range of events in the first term - Welcome Week and beyond - to give you the chance to meet your fellow students and staff, get to know campus and our services, and settle into life at Kent. We also have access to a number of learning resources, such as Learning Science Worksheets and the Catch up compendium - a series of online resources that provide the essential Biology, Chemistry and Maths & Stats - which we share with our new students before you arrive.
Our dedicated Careers and Placements Team are here to help you develop employability skills and confidence.
This starts with Welcome Week activity in your first term, where we introduce you to our Employability Team and start to show you the steps and skills you will develop while at Kent.
Workshops are run at the start of every year for each stage, with a focus on the key skills and things you should be thinking about at every step of your degree, such as preparing for a Professional Placement and our departure lounge for graduates, to best equip you for life after Kent.
Even after you graduate, we are here to support you and help you with your career.
You can access the services offered by our Careers and Employability Service for two years after graduation - but you’ll always be part of our Chemistry and Forensics family.
Joining our Alumni Network opens up a range of further career and professional development opportunities and networking events.
Read more about our current students and alumni
Chemistry MChem
Within our first few weeks of being in the lab, we were able to use cutting-edge equipment.
Forensic Science BSc
Kent is really well recognised as a place to take this degree, so it just seemed like the best fit for me.
Fiep shares her experience on a Professional Placement Year at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), building further in-depth knowledge and experiencing what life could be like after graduating.
Forensic Science MSci
We have experts from different areas, very strong chemists, specialists in ballistics, DNA and crime scene investigation.
Experience a different culture, develop your language skills, establish international contacts and enhance your employability.
Develop your creativity and expand your knowledge with our range of free short-term, non-credit-bearing courses.
The Employability Points Scheme rewards students for active engagement with co-curricular activities with experiences of work.
Our specialist self-contained, one-year programmes will equip you with extra skills and knowledge to succeed in key growth industries.
Further your understanding of computer science and gain skills that are highly sought after by employers.
Develop your understanding of a tool that is revolutionising the way we work.
Learn the skills needed to challenge fake news and get work in a 21st-century newsroom thanks to our award-winning Centre for Journalism.
Gain a new skill and open the door to world of career opportunities.