Environmental Science

Kingston University

**Reasons to choose Kingston**- Kingston is ranked in the top 5 in the country and top in London for Geography (Guardian League Table 2025).- This course is accredited by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).- You’ll put your theory into practice through fieldwork in the UK and overseas.- There’s the opportunity for a year’s paid work placement. This will give you valuable experience and help prepare you for a career in an environmental role.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories. **About this course**We’re facing huge environmental challenges such as climate change, development pressures, resource use and pollution. Are you interested in working to find sustainable solutions to these challenges? If you are, this degree could be ideal. You’ll gain the skills to investigate, monitor, evaluate and understand environmental systems and to predict and respond to environmental challenges. The course is highly practical. You’ll continually apply your studies to real-life situations through fieldwork and paid work placement opportunities.**Future Skills** Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it. **Career opportunities**We have excellent links with industry, business and environmental organisations. Graduates work as environmental consultants, analysts or technicians with local authorities, in waste management, wildlife conservation, and in teaching and administrative roles. Many students progress to our MSc in Environmental Management.

Environmental Sciences