Historic module selection data

Historic module selection data#

The table below shows the list of options selected by Natural Sciences students in 2025/26. The number of students who were accepted or rejected after applying is also shown. The overall rate of rejection for optional module selections was 2.25%. The most common reason given for rection was that the student does not meet the module requirements, pre-requisites or programme requirements, which accounted for more than half of the rejections.

This information is provided for guidance and transparency only, and it may not necessarily be a strong indicator of future module selection success. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your optional and elective module selections with the Stream Leaders.

If you wish to take a module that does not appear on the list of standard options, please also check the information in the UCL module catalogue and contact the module organiser to ensure that you meet the pre-requisites and that places may be available.

2025/26 selection success#

Table 1 Module selections for 2025/26#

Module

Title

Approved

Rejected

Total

Success%

ANAT0003

Human Neuroanatomy

6

3

9

67%

ANAT0013

Pain

5

0

5

100%

ANTH0060

Primate Behaviour And Ecology

2

0

2

100%

BASC0004

Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge Through Collections

1

0

1

100%

BASC0008

Science Meets Religion In A Global Context

1

0

1

100%

BASC0011

Migration And Health

1

0

1

100%

BASC0015

Interdisciplinary Psychology

0

1

1

0%

BASC0017

Interdisciplinary Game Theory

3

0

3

100%

BASC0028

Sustainable Energy

1

0

1

100%

BASC0038

Algorithms: Logic And Structures

1

0

1

100%

BASC0056

Quantitative Methods 3: Models And Inference

4

0

4

100%

BENG0008

Commercialisation Of Research Ideas

0

1

1

0%

BENG0027

Advanced Tech Journalism: Analysis And Commentary In Technology, Science, And Engineering

3

0

3

100%

BENG0040

Industrial Synthetic Biology

1

0

1

100%

BIOC0006

Essential Protein Structure And Function

1

0

1

100%

BIOC0016

Computational And Systems Biology

2

0

2

100%

BIOC0017

Cancer Biology

2

0

2

100%

BIOC0020

Molecular Mechanisms Of Gene Expression And Regulation

4

0

4

100%

BIOC0030

Advanced Molecular Biology Of Protein Regulatory Networks

6

0

6

100%

BIOC0033

Membrane Trafficking And Mechanisms Of Disease

4

0

4

100%

BIOL0003

Introduction To Genetics

29

0

29

100%

BIOL0006

Methods In Ecology And Evolution

15

0

15

100%

BIOL0008

Fundamentals Of Molecular Biology

1

0

1

100%

BIOL0010

Introduction To Human Genetics

2

0

2

100%

BIOL0012

Animal Biodiversity

1

0

1

100%

BIOL0013

The Biology Of Development

1

0

1

100%

BIOL0014

Fundamentals Of Ecology

2

0

2

100%

BIOL0020

Sex, Genes And Evolution

4

0

4

100%

BIOL0021

Advanced Human Genetics

3

0

3

100%

BIOL0022

Biology Of Ageing

3

0

3

100%

BIOL0025

Regulatory Genomics And Evolution

5

0

5

100%

BIOL0029

Computational Biology

4

0

4

100%

BIOL0032

Biodiversity Conservation And Ethics

3

0

3

100%

BIOL0035

Vertebrate Life And Evolution

2

0

2

100%

BIOL0042

Plant Evolution And Ecology

2

0

2

100%

BIOL0048

Behavioural Ecology For The Anthropocene

4

0

4

100%

BIOL0050

Advanced Computational Biology

1

0

1

100%

BIOL0053

Data Science Methods In Biology

2

0

2

100%

BIOL0057

Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Tropical Field Course

1

0

1

100%

BIOL0059

Genetics And Society

1

0

1

100%

BIOS0002

Computational Methods In Biodiversity Research

1

0

1

100%

BIOS0017

Msci Research Project In Life Sciences

12

0

12

100%

BIOS0019

Life Sciences Foundation

111

0

111

100%

BIOS0021

Science Communications For Biologists

2

0

2

100%

BIOS0040

Statistical Machine Learning For Biosciences

13

0

13

100%

BIOS0058

Neurobiology Of Decision-Making In Animal Model SystemsÂ

1

0

1

100%

CEGE0010

Introduction To Environmental Engineering

4

0

4

100%

CEGE0054

Environmental Modelling

1

0

1

100%

CELL0002

Mechanisms Of Development (Extended)

1

0

1

100%

CELL0003

Cellular And Developmental Neurobiology

2

0

2

100%

CELL0008

Introduction To Cell Biology

50

0

50

100%

CELL0012

Stem Cells And Regenerative Medicine

3

0

3

100%

CELL0013

Functional Genetics Of Model Systems

5

0

5

100%

CELL0015

Mitochondrial Biology, Bioenergetics And Metabolism In Human Disease

1

0

1

100%

CELL0016

Advanced Molecular Cell Biology

9

0

9

100%

CELL0018

Research Techniques In Cell Biology

4

0

4

100%

CELL0022

Advanced Practical Cell Biology

1

0

1

100%

CELL0024

Tissue Biology

1

0

1

100%

CELL0026

Cancer: Cause To Cure

4

0

4

100%

CELL0027

Computational Cell Biophysics

1

0

1

100%

CENG0026

Energy Systems And Sustainability

2

0

2

100%

CHEM0003

Introduction To Quantitative Chemistry

1

0

1

100%

CHEM0005

Chemical Foundations

137

2

139

99%

CHEM0008

Basic Organic Chemistry

72

0

72

100%

CHEM0009

Basic Physical Chemistry

75

0

75

100%

CHEM0012

Chemistry Of Materials

7

1

8

88%

CHEM0013

Basic Inorganic Chemistry

79

0

79

100%

CHEM0015

Inorganic Chemistry For Physical Science

1

0

1

100%

CHEM0017

Fundamentals Of Organic Chemistry

3

0

3

100%

CHEM0020

Physical Chemistry For Life Sciences

3

0

3

100%

CHEM0022

Elements Of Physical Chemistry

2

0

2

100%

CHEM0024

Synthesis And Characterisation Techniques In Chemistry

15

0

15

100%

CHEM0025

Instrumental And Computational Techniques In Chemistry

9

0

9

100%

CHEM0026

Synthetic Chemistry And Instrumentation

10

0

10

100%

CHEM0031

Inorganic Rings, Chains And Clusters

12

0

12

100%

CHEM0033

Principles Of Drug Design

19

0

19

100%

CHEM0039

New Directions In Materials Chemistry

13

4

17

76%

CHEM0067

Advanced Topics In Environmental And Energy Materials

1

0

1

100%

CHEM0077

Topics In Modern Chemistry

5

0

5

100%

CHEM0078

Topics In Modern Chemistry

7

0

7

100%

CHEM0079

Topics In Modern Chemistry

4

0

4

100%

CHEM0080

Advanced Chemical Research Project

9

0

9

100%

CLNE0003

Higher Functions Of The Brain

1

0

1

100%

COMP0015

Introduction To Programming

4

3

7

57%

COMP0081

Applied Machine Learning

1

0

1

100%

COMP0105

Financial Institutions And Markets

0

2

2

0%

ECON0008

History Of Economic Thought

1

0

1

100%

ESPS0057

Why Things Happen: Understanding CausalityÂ

0

1

1

0%

GBSH0048

Accounting And Finance For Managers

0

1

1

0%

GENE0006

Understanding Bioinformatics Resources And Their Application

1

0

1

100%

GEOG0083

Politics Of Climate Change

3

0

3

100%

GEOL0001

Earth Materials

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0003

History Of Life

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0004

Dynamic Earth

7

0

7

100%

GEOL0006

Surface Processes

5

0

5

100%

GEOL0007

The Earth

39

0

39

100%

GEOL0008

Geochemistry

4

0

4

100%

GEOL0009

Vertebrate Palaeontology And Evolution

2

0

2

100%

GEOL0011

Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0013

Principles Of Climate

6

0

6

100%

GEOL0015

Maps, Images And Structures

2

0

2

100%

GEOL0017

Isotope Geology

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0021

Biodiversity And Macroevolutionary Patterns A

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0022

Ocean Physics And Climate Change

3

0

3

100%

GEOL0024

Geological And Environmental Mapping

0

1

1

0%

GEOL0026

Earth And Planetary Materials

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0027

Groundwater Science

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0031

Environmental Geochemistry

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0036

Advanced Biodiversity And Macroevolutionary Studies

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0039

Earth And Planetary System Science

2

0

2

100%

GEOL0041

Physical Volcanology And Volcanic Hazard

3

0

3

100%

GEOL0044

Oceans, Life And Climate

2

0

2

100%

GEOL0045

Paleoclimate And Paleoenvironmental Change

3

0

3

100%

GEOL0061

Statistics For Geoscientists

4

0

4

100%

GEOL0062

Geological, Geotechnical & Hydro-Meteorological Hazards

3

0

3

100%

GEOL0066

Meteorological And Hydrogeological Hazards

1

0

1

100%

GEOL0068

Applied Geoscience For Mineral Resources And The Environment

1

1

2

50%

GEOL0069

Artificial Intelligence For Earth Observations (Ai4eo)

4

0

4

100%

GEOL0070

Volcanoes, Society And The Environment

2

0

2

100%

GEOL0072

Independent Msci Project

4

0

4

100%

GEOL0076

Introduction To Environmental Geoscience

7

0

7

100%

GEOL0077

Introduction To Mineral Resources

1

0

1

100%

GLBH0007

Anthropological Perspectives On Global Health

0

1

1

0%

HEBR0006

Religion, State And Society In Modern European History

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0002

Disease In History

3

0

3

100%

HPSC0004

Philosophy Of Science 1

4

0

4

100%

HPSC0008

Science Communication And Public Engagement

3

0

3

100%

HPSC0009

Introduction To History, Philosophy And Social Studies Of Science

35

0

35

100%

HPSC0010

History Of Modern Science

5

0

5

100%

HPSC0012

Policy Issues In The Life Sciences

3

0

3

100%

HPSC0013

Science In Popular Culture

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0014

Philosophy Of Science 2

7

0

7

100%

HPSC0017

Science And Ethics

5

0

5

100%

HPSC0022

Science And Religion

2

0

2

100%

HPSC0033

Special Topics In History And Philosophy Of Science

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0034

Special Topics In Science And Society

2

0

2

100%

HPSC0036

Engaging The Public With Science

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0037

Thinking About Technology

4

0

4

100%

HPSC0039

Science, Warfare And Peace

12

0

12

100%

HPSC0042

Advanced Sociology Of Science

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0044

Science And The Publishing Industry

4

0

4

100%

HPSC0050

Philosophy Of Natural Sciences

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0065

Philosophy Of Information

2

0

2

100%

HPSC0067

Science In The Ancient World

6

0

6

100%

HPSC0080

Early Modern Science

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0084

Causality And Evidence In Science

4

0

4

100%

HPSC0092

Responsible Science And Innovation

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0107

Science Journalism

4

0

4

100%

HPSC0110

Medicine, History And Society

5

0

5

100%

HPSC0111

Science, Art And Philosophy

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0124

Science In Government

5

0

5

100%

HPSC0139

History Of Science 2

8

0

8

100%

HPSC0157

Science Technology And International Development

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0158

Realising Utopia Science And Technology For A Better World

1

0

1

100%

HPSC0162

Social Epistemology Of Science

1

0

1

100%

INIM0004

Mathematical Modelling In Biomedicine

2

0

2

100%

INIM0005

Immunology

23

0

23

100%

INIM0006

Immunology In Health And Disease

10

3

13

77%

INIM0011

The Immunological Basis Of Autoimmune Disease - From Experimental Models To Clinical Practice

1

0

1

100%

INIM0018

Infectious Diseases In Resource Poor Settings

2

0

2

100%

INIM0030

Immunodeficiency And Therapeutics

2

0

2

100%

INIM0031

The Immune System, Cancer, And Its Treatment

4

0

4

100%

LCAR0003

Arabic Level 2

1

0

1

100%

LCAR0004

Arabic Level 3

1

0

1

100%

LCDU0002

Dutch Level 1

1

0

1

100%

LCFR0005

French Level 3

3

0

3

100%

LCFR0006

French Level 4

2

0

2

100%

LCFR0007

French Level 5: Business And Current Affairs

2

0

2

100%

LCGE0002

German Level 1

1

0

1

100%

LCIT0003

Italian Level 1

1

0

1

100%

LCIT0004

Italian Level 2

1

0

1

100%

LCJA0002

Japanese Level 1

4

0

4

100%

LCMA0002

Mandarin Level 1

1

0

1

100%

LCMA0010

Mandarin Levels 2+3

1

0

1

100%

LCSP0003

Spanish Level 2

2

0

2

100%

LCSP0009

Spanish Levels 1+2

1

0

1

100%

LCUL0002

Applied Cultural Theory

1

0

1

100%

MATH0025

Mathematics For General Relativity

1

0

1

100%

MATH0029

Graph Theory And Combinatorics

1

0

1

100%

MATH0030

Mathematical Ecology

4

0

4

100%

MATH0031

Financial Mathematics

1

1

2

50%

MATH0038

History Of Mathematics

2

0

2

100%

MATH0042

Mathematical Methods In Chemistry

5

0

5

100%

MATH0043

Mathematics For Physics And Astronomy

4

0

4

100%

MATH0088

Quantitative And Computational Finance

0

2

2

0%

MATH0101

Linear Algebra For Data Science

1

0

1

100%

MATH0103

Algebraic Structures

9

0

9

100%

MECH0007

Fundamentals Of Materials 1

1

0

1

100%

MECH0032

New And Renewable Energy Systems

2

0

2

100%

MECH0038

Biomechanics And Biostructures

1

0

1

100%

MECH0092

Financial Engineering

1

0

1

100%

MPHY0006

Introduction To Biophysics

1

0

1

100%

MPHY0016

Medical Imaging With Ionising Radiation

3

0

3

100%

MPHY0018

Biomedical Ultrasound

4

0

4

100%

MPHY0020

Computing In Medicine

1

0

1

100%

MPHY0030

Programming Foundations For Medical Image Analysis

1

0

1

100%

MPHY0038

Treatment With Ionising Radiation

4

0

4

100%

MPHY0039

Applications Of Biomedical Engineering

4

0

4

100%

MSIN0004

Accounting For Business

1

1

2

50%

MSIN0029

Digital Conversations And Marketing

0

1

1

0%

MSIN0039

Corporate Financial Strategy

1

0

1

100%

MSIN0051

Digital Strategy And Transformation

0

1

1

0%

MSIN0059

Managerial Accounting For Decision Making

0

1

1

0%

MSIN0061

Global Marketing Strategy

1

1

2

50%

MSIN0270

Marketing And Consumer Analytics

0

1

1

0%

NEUR0014

Neural Basis Of Motivation And Learning

6

1

7

86%

NEUR0016

Neural Computation: Models Of Brain Function

8

0

8

100%

NEUR0017

Visual Neuroscience

1

0

1

100%

NEUR0019

Foundations Of Neuroinformatics

1

0

1

100%

NEUR0020

Integrative Systems Neuroscience

16

0

16

100%

NEUR0022

Scientific Thinking For Real-World Problems

2

0

2

100%

NEUR0023

Essential Cellular Neurophysiology

2

0

2

100%

NSCI0005

Mathematics For Natural Sciences A

71

4

75

95%

NSCI0006

Mathematics For Natural Sciences B

94

1

95

99%

NSCI0024

Research Project In Natural Sciences

1

0

1

100%

NSCI0026

Undergraduate Research Project In Natural Sciences

2

0

2

100%

NSCI0027

Linear Algebra And Vector Calculus

64

0

64

100%

NSCI0033

Classical Mechanics And Electromagnetism

20

0

20

100%

NSCI0034

Dynamical Systems

37

0

37

100%

NSCI0036

Programming For Scientists

78

0

78

100%

NSCI0038

Science For All

31

0

31

100%

NSCI0039

Science Communication

18

0

18

100%

OPHT0097

Business For Bioscience

2

0

2

100%

PALS0039

Introduction To Deep Learning For Speech And Language Processing

1

0

1

100%

PHAR0011

Molecular Pharmacology

6

0

6

100%

PHAR0012

Receptor Mechanisms

7

0

7

100%

PHAR0013

Pharmacology Of Inflammation (Extended)

2

0

2

100%

PHAR0014

Drug Design And Development

12

1

13

92%

PHAR0018

Synaptic Pharmacology

1

0

1

100%

PHAR0019

Pharmacology Of Inflammation

2

0

2

100%

PHAR0027

Drug Design And Development (Extended)

14

0

14

100%

PHAS0005

Waves, Optics And Acoustics

24

0

24

100%

PHAS0006

Thermal Physics And The Properties Of Matter

61

0

61

100%

PHAS0011

Modern Physics, Astronomy And Cosmology

71

2

73

97%

PHAS0019

Planetary Science

1

0

1

100%

PHAS0021

Electricity And Magnetism

11

0

11

100%

PHAS0022

Quantum Physics

1

0

1

100%

PHAS0023

Atomic And Molecular Physics

29

0

29

100%

PHAS0024

Statistical Physics Of Matter

13

0

13

100%

PHAS0025

Mathematical Methods Iii

11

0

11

100%

PHAS0036

The Physics Of Stars

4

0

4

100%

PHAS0037

Physical Cosmology

5

0

5

100%

PHAS0038

Electromagnetic Theory

7

0

7

100%

PHAS0040

Nuclear And Particle Physics

23

0

23

100%

PHAS0041

Solid State Physics

20

0

20

100%

PHAS0043

Practical Astronomy 1 - Technique

5

0

5

100%

PHAS0046

Interstellar Physics

3

0

3

100%

PHAS0047

Astronomical Spectroscopy

1

0

1

100%

PHAS0049

Theory Of Dynamical Systems

3

0

3

100%

PHAS0050

Climate And Energy

2

0

2

100%

PHAS0053

Lasers And Modern Optics

3

0

3

100%

PHAS0054

Practical Physics 3 (For Natural Sciences)

14

2

16

88%

PHAS0055

Materials And Energy Materials

8

0

8

100%

PHAS0056

Practical Machine Learning For Physicists

24

0

24

100%

PHAS0057

Physics Of The Earth

5

0

5

100%

PHAS0058

Physics Of Advanced Materials

0

1

1

0%

PHAS0059

Theoretical Condensed Matter

2

0

2

100%

PHAS0061

Advanced Topics In Statistical Mechanics

4

0

4

100%

PHAS0065

Galaxy Dynamics, Formation And Evolution

2

0

2

100%

PHAS0067

Advanced Physical Cosmology

2

0

2

100%

PHAS0068

Physics Of Exoplanets

5

0

5

100%

PHAS0069

Advanced Quantum Theory

13

0

13

100%

PHAS0070

Quantum Computation And Communication

7

0

7

100%

PHAS0072

Particle Physics

7

0

7

100%

PHAS0073

Quantum Field Theory

6

0

6

100%

PHAS0075

Symmetry And Phase Transitions

1

0

1

100%

PHAS0097

Physics And Astrophysics Project

11

0

11

100%

PHAS0099

Molecular Physics

4

0

4

100%

PHAS0102

Techniques Of High-Performance Computing

6

0

6

100%

PHAS0103

Molecular Biophysics

1

0

1

100%

PHAS0105

Atom And Photon Physics

4

0

4

100%

PHIL0003

Knowledge And Reality

1

0

1

100%

PHIL0013

Philosophy Of Mind

0

1

1

0%

PHIL0160

Philosophy Of Space And Time

0

1

1

0%

PHIL0196

Paradoxes

1

0

1

100%

PHOL0002

Introductory Mammalian Physiology

56

0

56

100%

PHOL0006

Respiration In Health And Disease

3

0

3

100%

PHOL0007

Heart And Circulation

1

0

1

100%

PHOL0008

Cell Signalling In Health And Disease

1

0

1

100%

PHOL0009

The Cellular Basis Of Brain Function

1

0

1

100%

POLS0079

Middle East Politics

0

1

1

0%

POLS0090

Theories Of Justice And Injustice

0

1

1

0%

POLS0099

Politics Of Nature

0

1

1

0%

PSBS0003

Current Research In Dementia

2

0

2

100%

PSBS0005

Current Research In Psychosis And Bipolar

1

0

1

100%

PSYC0002

Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach

1

0

1

100%

PSYC0010

Social Psychology

4

0

4

100%

PSYC0017

Perception

2

0

2

100%

PSYC0023

Topics In Clinical Psychology

1

0

1

100%

PSYC0025

The Social Psychology Of Risk

4

0

4

100%

PSYC0026

Topics In Developmental Psychology

1

0

1

100%

PSYC0030

Human Learning And Memory

5

0

5

100%

PSYC0031

Cognitive Neuroscience

10

0

10

100%

PSYC0032

The Brain In Action

8

1

9

89%

PSYC0039

Introduction To Psychology

20

0

20

100%

SEEV0001

Slovene A

1

0

1

100%

SESS0009

Applied Game Theory For Economics And Business

0

2

2

0%

SESS0111

Basics Of Financial Markets

0

1

1

0%

SPCE0005

Space Plasma And Magnetospheric Physics (Ss109)

1

0

1

100%

SPCE0010

Planetary Atmospheres (Ss4)

2

0

2

100%

SPCE0011

Solar Physics (Ss6)

6

0

6

100%

SPCE0012

High Energy Astrophysics (Ss7)

1

0

1

100%

STAT0002

Introduction To Probability And Statistics

111

0

111

100%

STAT0003

Further Probability And Statistics

62

0

62

100%

STAT0005

Probability And Inference

18

0

18

100%

STAT0007

Introduction To Stochastic Processes

6

1

7

86%

STAT0008

Statistical Inference

5

1

6

83%

STAT0010

Forecasting

4

0

4

100%

STAT0011

Decision And Risk

14

0

14

100%

STAT0014

Medical Statistics 1

3

1

4

75%

STAT0021

Introductory Statistical Methods And Computing

2

0

2

100%

STAT0042

Statistical Machine Learning

1

0

1

100%

SURG0058

Applied Tissue Engineering

1

0

1

100%