Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Conserve our environment for future generations – work within the sector on an eight-week placement to reduce human impacts and provide solutions to today's environmental challenges across the globe. This MSc programme helps launch your career, giving you the skills and knowledge required for a job in the environment sector.
Maximise your career prospects by learning the latest desk, laboratory and field techniques used in the management and assessment of environmental impact.
You will normally be a graduate with a second class (2:2) degree or higher from an environmental, geographical, chemistry, marine, geology or biological subject discipline who is looking for environmental sector training. If you apply with equivalent qualifications and/or relevant environmental management experience, this would also be acceptable.
Equally, you could be a graduate from related disciplines who have worked within the environmental sector and is looking to gain a specialist qualification. If you apply without recent formal qualifications, you may still be accepted.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
From scholarships and loans, to grants from charitable trusts, you can fund your postgraduate study at Plymouth in a number of ways.
We pride ourselves on our proven track record of getting our students into jobs. Our degree is focused on maximising your
careers prospects
, facilitated via networking opportunities during the taught programme, an 8 week placement, and a dissertation project which you can complete in collaboration with partners including NGOs, consultants, industry and charities.
Core module:
Professional Practice in the Environmental Sector
Environmental Assessment
MSc Dissertation
Environmental Knowledge: From Field to Stakeholder
Optional modules:
Climate Change: Science and Policy
Professional Placement Experience
Geohazards and the Built Environment
Site Investigation and Land Quality
Water Management and Sustainability in Mining
Ecological Survey Evaluation and Mitigation
Big Data Visualisation and Analytics
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