Qualification Acronyms

Each of these acronyms refers to a type of higher education qualification –what do they stand for?
What is each qualification? In what subject? Is it undergraduate or postgraduate (what do these two
terms mean?)? How long does it usually take to gain this qualification?

ACA Association of Chartered Accountants – 3 years – accountancy, finance and business - postgraduate

BA Bachelor of Arts – 3 to 4 years – business, theatre, education, recreation, tech, writing, history, design -
undergraduate
BM Bachelor of Medicine – 6 years – Biology and Chemistry - postgraduate

BSc Bachelor of Science – 3 or 4 years - Maths, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Statistics, Psychology, Nutrition,
Forestry, Computer Science, Home Science, Microbiology, Genetics, Agriculture - undergraduate
DPhil Doctor of Philosophy – 3 to 4 years – philosophy

MA Master of Arts – 18 to 20 months – Arts, Humanities and Some social sciences – postgraduate

MBA Master of Business Administration – 1 year - Managerial Economics, Accounting for Management, Business
Communication, Information Technology Management, Marketing Management - postgraduate
MD Doctor of Medicine – 2 years -

MEng
MPhil
MRes
MSc
PGCE
PGDip
PhD
PMQ

Chemistry related careers

 What’s the difference between a pharmaceutical chemist and a pharmacist? What is the
qualification route for each of these roles?
https://www.abpi.org.uk/what-we-do/working-with-industry-and-academia/careers-in-the-
pharmaceutical-industry/
https://www.rpharms.com/careers

 How is Chemical Engineering different to Chemistry?

https://www.icheme.org/education/whynotchemeng/

 Give three different routes to qualify as a doctor

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/career/studying-medicine/becoming-a-doctor/introduction

 What is a materials scientist?

https://www.iom3.org/information-school-and-college-pupils

 Who won this year’s Nobel prize in Chemistry, and for what discovery?
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/
 Check out http://www.futuremorph.org/ and find three other career paths that would use
chemistry.