BSc (Hons) Human Biology and Infectious Diseases

  • Part-time study available
  • Industrial Placement
  • International students can apply
  • Work placement opportunity

This degree is ideal for careers in biomedicine, sports science, health care, health promotion, pharmaceutical and food industries and forensic science, both in the UK and internationally. Many of our students continue onto postgraduate taught and research degree courses.

Career Prospects

This degree is ideal for careers in biomedicine, sports science, health care, health promotion, pharmaceutical and food industries and forensic science, both in the UK and internationally.

Many of our students continue onto postgraduate taught and research degree courses. Our graduates become employed in bioscience with companies such as AstraZeneca, research establishments such as the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, or carry on to further study within six months of finishing the course.

Alumni Profile

Yvette Merga - 2004 graduate

Yvette went on to Masters level study at Salford, a PhD at Liverpool and is now working as a research scientist on an EU-funded project on food-borne infection.

"I really enjoyed my time at Salford Uni, and I feel that the Human biology and infectious diseases course provided me with very interesting and useful knowledge about public health, infectious diseases and microbiology from experts in these fields, which other biology degrees simply don’t offer, as well and many transferable skills essential for a variety of careers. It gave me a great background from which to start my career as a research scientist."

Industry Links

We encourage all of our students to take up an additional industrial placement year, which we will help to arrange, between years 2 and 3 of the full-time course, making a four-year course overall. In many cases this can be a salaried position with a major company or have financial support linked to a public health laboratory or hospital (such as the Respiratory Physiology Unit at the Royal Aintree Hospital in Liverpool).

In our experience, final degree results and employability are enhanced for students who undertake a placement year. The placement also counts towards the final degree classification as part of the year 2 mark.

Placements

Recent Human Biology and Infectious Diseases students have undertaken placements at the Wolfson Imaging Centre in Manchester, the Clinical Epidemiology unit at Manchester and at TSC Ltd in Heywood.

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