Postgraduate study

Our programmes have been developed in collaboration with industrial, professional and educational partners to enable you to make a positive impact in your chosen field. Our programmes have extensive industry links and contributions that result in excellent employment opportunities for our students.

We offer the following postgraduate programmes:

Practical experience

A number of our programmes offer opportunities to gain valuable work experience in industry-based or research roles taken as an additional term of study. External experts and industry practitioners also deliver lectures on key topics – meaning you’ll learn directly from professionals already working within your chosen profession.

First-class facilities

The newly-developed facilities at our Lanarkshire Campus include technology-enhanced bioscience teaching labs, specialised zoology laboratory facilities and a microbiology suite. Our cutting-edge teaching facilities also include genomic, biochemical, cell biology and advanced image analysis systems.

Research to improve our world

Being taught by staff who are research active means that you’ll benefit directly from our extensive expertise, experience and knowledge across a breadth of disciplines.

Our research is internationally recognised and was rated as producing world-leading and international standard research in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF). 


“This programme opened up opportunities for higher study. The course content and practical training made me confident enough to do research and teaching on advanced reproductive biotechnology".
“While studying at UWS, I was given the opportunity to do a PhD at Kyushu University in Japan on a Japanese Government Scholarship. Now I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kansas Medical Centre, conducting research on female reproductive physiology, i.e. placental biology.”

Md. Rashedul Islam, PhD, MSc Biotechnology graduate

Last updated: 11/02/2025