Postgraduate

Environmental Sustainability

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Overview

This page covers Environmental Sustainability across the departments we work with, including what each asks for and what it charges. It is a one year postgraduate programme, so the pace is quick and the dissertation carries real weight.

Teaching in Environmental Sciences combines field work with laboratory analysis, and several departments have their own farms or field stations.

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Entry requirements

Careers opportunities

Most of this sector's work sits with land managers, consultancies and regulators rather than with laboratories, and a great deal of it is field based. Employers weigh a placement year or a season of practical work as heavily as the degree classification.

Roles graduates go into

  • Environmental consultant
  • Agronomist
  • Sustainability officer
  • Conservation officer
  • Land or estate manager
  • Environmental compliance analyst

Where they work

  • Environmental consultancies
  • Farming and agri-supply businesses
  • The Environment Agency and Natural England
  • Water and utility companies
  • Conservation charities and trusts
After the course

Chartered status through the Institution of Environmental Sciences or a licence to practise from a sector body is the usual next step, and both count a year of logged practice.

Fees and funding

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Where you will study

Durham University

It is the only university we work with in Durham, so what is on this page is the whole of our list there.

The region
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Courses there, all told
242 across every university we list in it
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