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

Postgraduate Medical Sciences courses


Postgraduate Biosciences courses


Postgraduate Physical Sciences courses

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


Student profiles

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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.