Your Biology offer

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Offer Holder Events
Why Lancaster?
Meet our students
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Congratulations

Congratulations on your offer to study at Lancaster. You’ll dive deep into the fascinating science of living systems, from molecular biology to ecosystems, gaining the practical abilities and critical-thinking mindset needed to make a real impact. It’s this diverse suite of skills and knowledge that makes Lancaster such an exciting place to study biology. In joining Lancaster, you'll find a thriving, close-knit and supportive community where you can share your experiences, socialise and make friends for life.

Professor Martin McAinsh, Director of Undergraduate Biology

Offer Holder Events

Discover Lancaster University for yourself at one of our events exclusively for Biology offer holders and guests.

  • Saturday 14 February
  • Saturday 14 March
  • Saturday 11 April

These events are a chance to experience our friendly and inclusive teaching environment first-hand. You’ll get to know our Biosciences team and current students through subject talks, taster sessions and informal chats over a complimentary lunch.

At your Offer Holder Event, you will:

  • Learn more about the structure of your degree and our approach to teaching and learning
  • Experience life as a Biology student through a hands-on laboratory taster session
  • Have the opportunity to chat with current students and staff, and find out answers to any questions you may have

We also host a variety of online events designed to give you a closer look at life within our Biosciences community - whilst also exploring exciting career paths that could shape your future.

View Offer Holder Event programme

Once you have received an offer to study Biology, you will be emailed a unique booking link to the email address used on your UCAS application. You can book your place on both the in-person and online events. If you have any questions, or haven't received your personal booking link, please email us.

Tailor your degree to match your specific interests by choosing from a wide variety of modules with the option to specialise, for example, in the biomedical, biochemical or environmental aspects of biology. You can develop your knowledge of a range of skills required to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our planet, whether it's researching underlying scientific principles, the development of new treatments for disease or helping to protect endangered species.

Why Lancaster?

In joining Lancaster, you will become a part of our Biosciences community. Taught by internationally renowned academics, you will develop the skills required to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our planet, whether it’s researching underlying scientific principles, the development of new treatments for disease or helping to protect endangered species.

Study in the great outdoors

We make the most of Lancaster’s fantastic location. Our local surroundings are a ‘living laboratory’ of coasts, moorland, mountains and rivers which provide an unrivalled environment for studying diverse ecosystems. Current field trips include:

  • Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland
  • Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
  • Great Rift Valley, Kenya

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Research with impact

We talk a lot about ‘research-led teaching’ but what does that really mean? It means that the academics you will learn from, the people taking your labs and tutorials and standing at the front of the lecture theatres, are experts in their fields. Their research is shaping our understanding of the world and their work feeds into our degree programmes, ensuring that your education is informed by cutting-edge thinking.

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A career in the making

One of our degrees will give you the skills to pursue a career in your chosen area of the biosciences and will give you the transferable skills valued by a wide range of future employers. In addition to subject-specific knowledge you'll gain numerical, analytical and other transferable skills required for scientific careers but equally applicable elsewhere.

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Keep exploring

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Meet our students: Briony

I chose Lancaster because of the choice of modules from first year onwards; no other university that I looked at seemed to give quite as diverse a choice.

Settling in at Lancaster was easy; the campus has a great atmosphere, and there is support from everywhere if you need it. I really enjoy my studies and I’ve chosen a lot of ecology-based modules this year. Through all the work and research I’ve done for these modules, I would say I have renewed hope for the future of the planet.

Outside of my studies, I worked for the Children’s and Young People’s Ambassadors scheme with the Students’ Union. I’m planning on doing teacher training after I graduate, and this experience alongside the employability module helped me practice writing cover letters and completing interviews specific to a career in teaching. 

Briony Johnson, Biology graduate

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