Our postgraduate students use dedicated facilities within the School
All our taught postgraduate programmes are recognised by the Society of Biology.
Join CEC staff and students on their MSc field course in Kenya focussing on the biodiversity and conservation of this exciting region. Watch the video.Postgraduate Biosciences
As a highly research active discipline, we are in an excellent position to offer taught MSc courses focusing on a range of discipline-specific and generic skills, designed to enhance student employability.
- 7th in the UK for Biology in The Sunday Times University Guide 2012
- 90 per cent of Biosciences research classified as being of international quality with world leading research undertaken in all of our research groups (RAE 2008)
- Excellent facilities with a £25 million investment in state-of-the-art laboratories and platform technologies
- The current value of ongoing research within Biosciences is more than £40 million funded from Research Councils (BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC, MRC), charities (eg, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust), UK government (eg, DEFRA, Royal Society, DSTL), the EU Commission, and industrial companies (eg, Shell Research Ltd, Syngenta)
- Research regularly published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- 8th for Biology in the National Student Survey (2011)1
- High quality research supervision to develop and nurture the scientific potential of all graduates
- Opportunities to enhance your learning on a field course in Africa, onboard the Cefas research vessel, or working with biotechnology or conservation organisations
- Generous studentships available
Our taught Masters programmes
Find out about the taught Masters programmes available in the School of Biosciences
For additional information, you can also see the Postgraduate study website.
Funding for Masters degrees
We offer generous and widely-available bursaries, please see the our funding for Masters degrees page for further details.
Contact us
We welcome enquiries about our taught Masters programmes from interested students throughout the year. Please contact:
Research degrees
If you are interested in Research degrees in the School of Biosciences, please see our PhD study/Masters by Research page.
Coming to study in Exeter at a time like this was one of the best decisions I've made in my life. Apart from the School of Biosciences' impressive showing in the 2008 RAE* which has translated into millions of pounds for broadening our research base and wholly enhancing the learning experience, I have attended classes and worked together in the labs with some of the best people from the most diverse of cultural backgrounds. The variety of perspectives they each bring to discourse in and out of the lecture halls is simply amazing. The tutors are incredibly knowledgeable and world leaders in their fields: one of my most memorable moments was attending a seminar where one of our lecturers personally spoke about his work on ocean chemistry which had just been published in Science and one which was generating so much buzz in the scientific world! I am confident that I am receiving the best of education and couldn't have been better prepared to face the world anywhere else!
Ifeanyi Nwachukwu, MSc Biocatalysis student
*Research Assessment Exercise
1 based on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities
