This is a two year part-time or one year full-time postgraduate programme offered by the Department of Chemistry to candidates with BSc (Hons) or equivalent qualifications. The aims of the programme are two-fold: (1) to provide an opportunity for further education for working professionals in the field of analytical chemistry and related areas, and (2) to offer a programme of study relevant to the need of public and industrial laboratories as well as research organizations. Students graduated from the programme will possess a more integral view on real life problems of analytical nature and the ways and means at their disposal to solve them. The programme also provides training in laboratory management, quality assurance, computer applications and laboratory automation and help to instil an integrated analytical mind in students so that they can comfortably assume supervisory or managerial positions in establishments dealing in chemical analysis or related fields.

Part-time and full-time students will be required to spend two evenings (about four hours per week) and four evenings (about eight hours per week) respectively on lectures and seminars. In addition, both part-time and full-time students have to devote one Saturday and weekday respectively, every alternate week, for laboratory and dissertation. As an integral part of a professional training process, each student is also required to complete an independent dissertation related to chemical analysis.

The distribution of lectures, laboratory and dissertation hours is given below: