MSc Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology at Keele University

As a student on the MSc in Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology, you will benefit from learning on a campus featuring a Low Carbon Energy Generation Park which is supporting Keele University's pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030, featuring two wind turbines, 12,500 solar panels and an industrial-sized battery to store the generated energy. You will access on-site energy projects such as the recent HyDeploy project and the HyDEX project, which are driving forward demonstration of low-carbon hydrogen technology, and the Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) project. SEND, a European first, is an at-scale environment providing a platform that allows energy generation, distribution, storage, forecasting and energy balancing to be intelligently carried out across different energy sources using the Keele University campus as a genuine ‘living laboratory’.

Faculty: Faculty of Natural Sciences  |  Department: Environment  |  Duration: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time; part-time  |  Intake: September, January  |  Location: Keele, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The MSc in Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology can be studied as either a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course, with a September or January start date. You will complete 180 credits to obtain the master's qualification, comprising of 120 credits of taught modules (60 credits core and 60 credits optional) and a 60 credit dissertation.

Career pathways

This course is designed to prepare you for a successful career in environment and sustainability, in research and development, teaching, management, regulation or consultancy, guiding activities such as energy or waste management, recycling, air quality, flood risk and other effects of climate change. Previous graduates of this course have secured roles, for example, as an environmental sustainability specialist, sustainability and wellbeing consultant, project manager, innovation associate or assistant engineer.

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