This course offers an additional year of study on top of the Natural Sciences BSc. Students have the opportunity to deepen and extend their knowledge by taking advanced optional modules and completing a major project. The Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are intensive one-year foundation courses for international students of high academic potential who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree programmes at UCL and other top UK universities. While the programme offers a high level of flexibility, the core streams offer you a structured pathway to enable specialisation. A variety of teaching methods are employed including lecture classes, practical sessions and small-group tutorials. The programme provides an all-round scientific education in its own right. On completion of your course, you will have cultivated transferable skills and the ability to solve problems in a quantitative way and to see science in a modern context. You could choose to specialise in a defined, but usually interdisciplinary, science field and proceed to study for a wide range of possible postgraduate degree and doctoral programmes. Alternatively, you will be equipped to pursue many career options, for example, as a scientific journalist, in science teaching, as a management consultant or in finance and banking.