The MSc crystallography course has a new purpose-built dedicated X-ray laboratory allocated for its sole use during academic term. During vacations, MSc students still have priority access over the PhD students to the equipment within the laboratory. The room is currently equipped with 3 X-ray generators for camera work: one of the X-ray sets is dedicated to a pair of precession cameras while the other two are setup with four oscillation/Weissenberg cameras. The annexe room is dedicated as a dark-room for wet-film processing. In addition, one of the two departmental CAD4 diffractometers has been setup in the MSc X-ray laboratory so that students can have first priority in its use. During the vacation, use of this machine usually reverts to PhD student research.

More recently, a STEM electron microscope has been setup for MSc use within the laboratory so that students can be given more hands-on use of microscopy facilities so as to avoid interference with the main departmental research equipment.

The PC computer room is equipped with 12 pentium computers running DOS, Windows 3.11, or Linux as required. Students have access to this room when it is not is use for face-to-face teaching by other courses. In addition, much of the MSc practical work on the computers is carried out here.

The Glaxo-Welcome Seminar Room is the college's flagship teaching room equipped with state of the art projection equipment capable of displaying the top end workstation screens (up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) without loss of resolution. The room is used extensively for teaching, especially for course material that has been transferred to the local Intranet. Course material on the local Web is displayed with a browser such as Netscape to the whole class and face-to-face discussion. This has the advantage that students may peruse such material later at their leisure. The room has seats for 38 people and can, with a few minutes notice, be easily opened up and extended to seat 60 people.

Students are expected to use the suite of Silicon Graphics computers for project work, especially in the area of protein crystallography. Students also have full access to the Brookhaven Protein database.

This laboratory is equipped with two powder diffractometers (Siemens D500 and a Stoe STADIP) using both flat plate and capillary geometries. One can be setup with a high-temperature furnace while the other is being setup with cryogenic capabilities. MSc students make use of this research equipment in one of the MSc practicals and may also use them for project work.

In addition to the above hardware, students have access to various databases belonging to the industrial materials group, namely the JCPDS powder diffraction file and Cambridge Crystallographic Structural Database from CCDC.

The X-ray laboratory is equipped with three rotating anode generators, two Mar image plates, the second departmental CAD4 diffractometer, and ancillary computer and cryogenic equipment. Practical data acquisition using the Mar image plates is demonstrated to all students. Students may be given more hands-on experience in the use of this equipment through project work in protein crystallography.

Students are given practical demonstrations in the electron microscopy research laboratories. Students who choose projects involving the use of electron microscopy get further practical hands-on experience in the use of these expensive instruments.

MSc Crystallography students who choose projects involving protein purification & crystallization are given access to this laboratory.

The students have full access to extensive selection of crystallographic journals stored in the departmental library.

The college library provides several copies of the most popular course textbooks. There is excellent access to this facility for part-time students both during the evenings and at weekends.