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From the crime scene to the courtroom, experience the full investigative process while using cutting-edge facilities and advanced laboratory technologies to analyse and interpret forensic evidence to professional standards.

• Postgraduate
• Pontypridd

Explore this foundational science in-depth, discovering the evolutionary, physiological, molecular, and ecological processes driving all life on Earth. Combining outstanding field work opportunities with cutting-edge facilities, you’ll go broad, then choose to specialise in this well-rounded degree.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Dive into the processes that drive life, including evolution, physiology, molecular biology, and ecology. Develop the knowledge and skills to ask questions, solve problems, and make sense of the natural world.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Explore the remarkable human body, from different organ systems to biochemistry, genetics, and cellular biology.  

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

You will study how diseases develop, how they are investigated, how treatments work, and how new therapies can be researched and developed to improve lives.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

The only way to gain the broad and dynamic skillset needed to solve crimes is through practical experience. Our Forensic Investigation BSc prepares you for action in the CSI world as you investigate simulated crime scenes, use industry standard lab equipment and give evidence as an expert witness.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Explore real-world forensic investigation through immersive learning, expert teaching, and hands-on experience.

• Postgraduate
• Pontypridd

You’ll build a strong understanding of the criminal justice system and the laws that shape it. You’ll learn how evidence is examined and challenged, developing the skills to think clearly, question assumptions, and make responsible decisions in real situations, with science used as a practical tool along the way.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Accredited by The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, the Forensic Science BSc teaches you how to apply a range of advanced science to criminal investigation. The skills you develop using industry-standard equipment are a springboard to a variety of careers across scientific fields.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

The Forensic Science course offers hands-on experience from crime scene to court. You’ll learn key techniques in investigation, evidence collection, and laboratory analysis, building the confidence and skills needed to interpret findings and contribute effectively in real-world forensic scenarios.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

This degree is the perfect foundation for proceeding into graduate-entry medicine, developing clinical skills alongside biomedical theory and health policy.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

You will study chemistry, toxicology, biology, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology to understand the links between human disease and its prevention and treatment through drug design. To prepare you for the workplace this course involves a significant amount of simulated work-based learning.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

You will study chemistry, toxicology, biology, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology to understand the links between human disease and its prevention and treatment through drug design. To prepare you for the workplace this course involves a significant amount of simulated work-based learning.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Designed with a focus on employability and skilling graduates for roles within the pharmaceutical sector- one of the largest area of employment in the UK and the world, utilising the specialist facilities and staff at USW.

• Postgraduate
• Pontypridd

The complex world of pharmaceutical science needs graduates who not only have outstanding knowledge and know their way around a lab, but can confidently navigate the industry’s processes and frameworks. Learn all you need to secure a role within pharmaceutical companies that suits your career goals.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

The pharmaceutical industry needs graduates with strong scientific knowledge, practical lab skills, and a clear understanding of industry processes. This degree builds your expertise and problem-solving ability, giving you the confidence to adapt, innovate, and succeed in a fast-moving, real-world environment.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

The renewable energy master’s is based in USW’s Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC) - a leading and internationally recognised centre for more than 30 years. SERC is also home to The Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion and the University of South Wales Centre for Renewable Hydrogen Research and Demonstration.

• Postgraduate
• Pontypridd

Get a step ahead in your career as you gain a variety of key skills including survey techniques, monitoring systems and geographical information systems application, conservation principals and legislative systems.

• Postgraduate
• Pontypridd

Immerse yourself in wildlife ecology and conservation with hands-on fieldwork on three continents. Develop skills to understand, manage, and sustain wildlife in a changing world.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd

Immerse yourself in wildlife ecology and conservation through fieldwork across three continents. Develop the skills to study, manage, and sustain wildlife, and build the confidence to make a real difference in a world where environments and species are constantly changing.

• Undergraduate
• Pontypridd