Advance your career with a STEM masters degree

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A masters in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) can open doors to better job opportunities and higher salaries. STEM graduates are in high demand, and employers value the advanced skills you’ll gain. We offer postgraduate courses across all areas of STEM – explore and find the perfect course for you.

Why study your STEM masters at Sheffield?

  • Kick-start your career: Our STEM courses are carefully designed to support your career goals. We focus on hands-on experience and teaching the skills employers value most. So whatever your next steps look like, we’ll help you to get there.
  • Learn from the best: Our world-leading STEM research shapes real change, and you'll learn from the experts behind it. A key part of our courses is the independent research project, where you'll explore a STEM topic that matches your interests and career goals, putting what you’ve learned into practice.
  • State-of-the-art facilities: Get hands-on experience in amazing spaces, from working in hospital labs in collaboration with the NHS, to using industry-standard facilities on campus.
  • Professional partnerships for real experience: Depending on your chosen course, you could gain valuable experience working alongside industry leaders like Sheffield Teaching Hospitals or contribute to groundbreaking, life-changing research at SITraN, our institute for translational neuroscience.

These are just some of the things that make a masters from Sheffield so special. You can find out more about our specific STEM courses on this page. 

Science communication courses

Science Communication MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Science can change the world - but only if people understand it. Taught by experts across science and journalism, we’ll train you to use key media technology to effectively communicate science to – and for – the public, the media, business, and beyond.

Postgraduate Medical Sciences courses

Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Work with scientists and industry to study the genetics behind rare inherited diseases. Learn how discoveries in the lab are translated into innovative new stem cell and gene therapy treatments that offer precision and personalised medicine.

  • Funding available

Cancer Biology and Therapeutics MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

The programme provides research-led teaching in fundamental cancer biology, clinical oncology and the latest advances in modern therapeutics including immunotherapy and precision medicine. In addition, the six-month full-time research project is excellent preparation for a PhD and a career in healthcare or the pharmaceutical industry.

Reproductive and Developmental Medicine MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Explore the science behind reproductive and developmental processes and their clinical applications. Develop specialist knowledge as a scientist or clinician, or prepare for further training in IVF or embryology.

Translational Neuroscience MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Designed for students interested in gaining the practical, lab-based skills necessary to understand neurological diseases at the molecular and cellular level and how to apply this knowledge to benefit patients.

Clinical Neurology MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Understand neurological disease and how clinical research breakthroughs are translated into treatments. You’ll attend NHS clinics to learn from patients and clinicians.

Human Nutrition MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time
  • Accredited

Uncover the powerful links between diet, health, and disease, and explore advances in nutrition, sustainability, public health and clinical nutrition. We provide hands-on experience through lab work and public engagement activities and place a focus on getting you career-ready.

Postgraduate Biosciences courses

Biomedical Science MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Tailor your MSc training by choosing a specialist pathway in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, or Cell Biology and Drug Development, ready to make a difference across biomedicine in academia, healthcare and industry.

Biodiversity and Conservation MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Develop your knowledge about major conservation issues and their human and environmental drivers across a range of ecosystems. Gain the skills you’ll need to understand how we can balance human needs with efforts to address the biodiversity and climate crisis.

Human and Molecular Genetics MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Explore human genetics and develop an understanding of how human genetic diseases are diagnosed clinically at the chromosome and DNA levels.

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Gain in-depth knowledge and specialist molecular skills through extensive practical laboratory training, ready for a career in the biotechnology sector.

Postgraduate Physical Sciences courses

Chemistry MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Explore the topics at the cutting edge of chemistry that are most important to you, and develop the practical skills needed for a career in chemistry.

Drug Discovery Science MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Find out how scientists discover chemical candidates for new pharmaceuticals. You'll learn how to meet the pharmaceutical industry’s increasing demands for drugs that can treat illnesses safely and more effectively, overcome antibiotic resistance, and be produced at a lower financial and environmental cost.

Astrophysics MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Explore the key topics at the cutting edge of modern astrophysics, develop the practical skills used by professional astrophysicists and conduct your own astronomical observations.

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Expand your understanding of general relativity and quantum mechanics and work with researchers to tackle some of the biggest ideas in science.

Physics MSc

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2025 start
  • 1 year Full-time

Explore the key topics at the cutting edge of physics, develop the practical skills used by professional physicists and conduct your own research project.

Explore Masters courses in mathematics and statistics or Postgraduate courses within the Faculty of Engineering.

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Student profiles

Evie Gruszyk stood outside the SITraN building

If not for the MSc course I would not be where I am now

Evie Gruszyk MSc Reproductive and Developmental Medicine

Evie has always hoped to contribute to research within the field of fertility, with the aim of allowing everyone who wants children to be able to have them. After graduating from our MSc Reproductive and Developmental Medicine course, she’s now making that dream come true as she finalises her PhD in male infertility.  

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Part-time distance learning has allowed me to still have a full time job but study at the same time

Belle Kennett MSc Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration

Belle has always loved learning, and our distance learning MSc in Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration has helped develop her knowledge and better understand conditions which have affected a number of her close friends.

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My experience on the MSc has inspired me to pursue a PhD

Sruthi Kannel Suresh MSc Biomedical Science

Sruthi chose to study the Biomedical Science MSc to really hone her lab skills and get extra experience carrying out her own research projects. During her research project, Sruthi collaborated with PhD students in the school which has inspired her to take this route in the future.

Aidan, a graduating clinical neurology student, with his parents outside a Sheffield building.

I still use what I learned in clinical practice on a daily basis

Aidan Rossiter MSc Clinical Neurology

Aidan Rossiter chose Sheffield for its links to the great outdoors and the unique patient-facing clinic time our Clinical Neurology course offered. Aidan is now a Lead Physician Associate in Shropshire, and explains how the course gave him the ‘step up’ he needed to pursue his current career.