A Master’s degree from the Faculty of Science at SDU provides you with skills that go beyond your academic knowledge. In addition to the subject-specific competences that your particular degree programme offers, you also gain what we call 21st century skills.

This means that you will learn to initiate and carry out projects as part of your education. You will learn how to approach tasks analytically and think critically from start to finish in a process.

You will find that you develop your creative abilities during your studies and become adept at imagining new solutions to problems and tasks. You will also become proficient at managing your time and working well with others. You will learn to communicate clearly and share your knowledge in a way that others pay attention to and understand.

With a Master’s degree in Medicinal chemistry you will have knowledge of:

• basic theoretical concepts and experimental methods based on international research at the highest level in the field of medicinal chemistry
• subject matters within the medical-chemical and related research
• the development process for a new drug
• expert knowledge in a defined field of research pertaining to the subject area of medicinal chemistry

Additionally, you will be able to:

• understand, and on a scientific basis reflect on, knowledge pertaining to the subject area of medicinal chemistry
• identify scientific problems
• plan and perform advanced medicinal chemical experiments, including synthetic organic chemistry
• identify and describe modern computational chemical methods
• apply structural chemical characterisation techniques
• elucidate proposed hypotheses against a qualified theoretical background
• investigate concrete phenomena theoretically and/or experimentally, thus contributing to generating new scientific insights or creating new applications of medicinal chemical research

With the international dimension of the programme, you will also acquire competences to handle academic and personal relationships in intercultural contexts and to understand that the approach to the subject’s key matters and methods is independent of national borders.