与博士学位课程非常相似，您将在经验丰富的学术人员的指导下从事研究项目，并产生独特的知识以造福科学界。候选人选择一个专门的研究领域，并根据他们的发现发表独特的研究论文。根据您的研究领域，您的工作量将包括一系列实践和理论研究，以及为学术出版物做出贡献并在研讨会和会议上展示您的发现。该计划提供对研究和工业专业至关重要的技能，并且可以轻松地转移到非研究型职业。毕业生对于解决问题，技术写作和表达能力以及对工作的分析方法非常理想。该计划还可以作为通往高等教育的绝佳途径，例如研究博士学位。
This program is designed primarily as a training course in advanced work. The candidate learns the fundamentals of research in an area of Chemistry and acquires skills in new chemical techniques. The candidate must undertake an original investigation but this would normally be more limited in scope than for a Doctorate. Although originality is to be encouraged as much as possible, careful supervision is necessary at all times: the work should be closely supervised in the early stages and wherever a new technique is being used. Most Masters research programs require a minimum of two years full-time study and the preparation of a thesis. The length of an MSc thesis should normally not exceed 75,000 words of text.