Why Choose Us?
The School of Biosciences is one of the largest and strongest Schools of its kind in the UK and provides an ideal environment for your postgraduate study with excellent career prospects. The School has consistently achieved high ratings in independent UK assessments of both research and teaching quality (RAE top in UK, December 2008 and TQA 23/24 respectively).
The School undertakes research and teaching in the fundamental and applied sciences behind diverse issues such as the growth, development and reproduction of plants, animals and microbes, the environment and its protection and the production and preservation of agricultural and food commodities, including food structure and quality, nutrition and safety.
Research and teaching within the School are organised into five groups: Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Animal Sciences, Food Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Plant and Crop Sciences. In addition, the School has extensive national and international research links with companies and institutions working in the field of bioscience.
The School is located on the Sutton Bonington Campus, a self-contained sixteen-hectare site in the beautiful countryside of South Nottinghamshire, ten miles south of University Park. Students have access to all facilities within The University of Nottingham and there are free and frequent shuttle buses to and from Sutton Bonington, the University Park Campus and Nottingham city centre. Commercial bus services also stop at the Sutton Bonington Campus and on-site parking is free.