MSc Materials Science

A master's on how the structure of materials determines their properties and how to design new ones. Students study thermodynamics, crystallography, solid-state physics and mechanical behaviour, then specialise across metals, polymers, ceramics, soft matter and functional materials. Laboratory work covers electron microscopy, diffraction and mechanical testing, and computational work includes density functional theory. It suits graduates in materials science, physics, chemistry or engineering who want to research or develop materials, and it ends with an experimental or computational thesis.