MSc Environmental Sciences

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Sep 2026
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Overview

This programme is focused on developing high level student understanding of the physical environment, and how society interacts with it. Considerable flexibility exists affording applicants the opportunity to develop their own postgraduate degree programme; the degree draws on expertise from across the School of Environmental Sciences.

A variety of assessment approaches are used including, oral and poster presentations, reports, essays and field notebooks. Teaching is provided in a range of environments and formats, including field, seminars, lectures, small group and laboratory.

For a Diploma, students will complete and be assessed on eight months of work. For the MSc, an additional four months will be spent preparing and submitting a dissertation based either on a research project or a placement with an appropriate institution.

Career prospects

Our degrees provide pathways into rewarding careers and our graduates have found employment in a wide range of industries and organisations, both in the UK and abroad. Graduates of the Environment and Climate Change MSc have gone on to continue their studies towards a PhD, or are employed in a wide range of positions, including environmental, energy and engineering consultancies, multinational companies (energy), local government, environmental bodies, research positions and teaching.

PhD graduates are now working in academic life as lecturers in Geography, Environmental Science, Economic History, Development Studies and Statistics at universities in the UK and overseas. Others are employed in applied fields, working in Europe, Africa and across the world, for example as professional statisticians (one is now Director of Statistics in Zambia, another working in the Health Service in the UK), development professionals (including a member of staff on the WHO malaria programme in East Africa), and scientists at climate and environmental research centres around the world.

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Requirements

The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.





















Modules

  • Introduction to Environment and Climate Change
  • Project Design and Management
  • Dissertation - Environmental Sciences
  • Research in Anthropocene Environments
  • Coastal Environments: Spatial and Temporal Change
  • Physical Properties of Environmental Archives and Modelling Approach
  • Politics of the Environment
  • Environmental Assessment of Policies, Plans, Programmes and Projects
  • Marine Ecology: Theory and Applications
  • Conservation Management
  • Business and the Environment
  • Analysing Climate Processes and Variability
  • Introduction to Quaternary Micropalaeontology
  • Environmental Planning and Management Project
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Monitoring Urban Air Pollution
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    Use our magical AI system, to check your admission chances for this course.
    Tuition fee
    Apply by
    Start date
    Sep 2025
    Sep 2026
    Duration
    Campus
    Mode of study
    Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
    Offer response
    2 weeks after your application is submitted
    Backlogs accepted
    This course accepts backlogs