The Neuroscience MSci course offers an extra year on top of the Neuroscience BSc, to extend your specialized knowledge of brain function and conduct original neuroscience research. 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. The multidisciplinary structure allows you to draw on expertise across all life sciences. As you progress, lectures will increasingly be given by specialists who are actively involved in related research. The programme puts particular emphasis on preparing you for careers that directly involve research or require a sound understanding of its methods. The programme trains you to be literate, numerate, and a critical thinker, which can help you gain success in fields that do not require your specific subject knowledge, as well as in neuroscience itself. Your teaching and learning will include lectures, tutorials, workshops and practical classes. Around half of our graduates choose to pursue further studies in neuroscience or a related life science. Some join one of UCL own MSc or PhD programmes, while others obtain PhD scholarships at major research centres worldwide. Among other potential advantages, the MSci programme is intended to make it easier for graduates to enter future PhD programmes at European centres of research excellence. Some other possibilities are mentioned in the Neuroscience BSc Prospectus entry.