MSc Environment and Global Development with a Placement Year at University of East Anglia

Our course provides an advanced understanding of the serious global environmental challenges that define our times: climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, waste and pollution, amongst others. We seek to understand the politics of environmental governance and identify equitable pathways to sustainability and resilience. The first-term core modules provide grounding in all the major aspects of global environmental change.

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences  |  Department: School of Global Development  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: Entry points: September; next start January 2027  |  Location: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You’ll be provided with a solid understanding of environmental change and thoroughly analyse a range of environmental and development problems. Compulsory modules by year: Year 1: Sustainability, Policy and Practice, Research Approaches for Dissertation or Analytical Report (spring Starters), Placement Preparation (faculty of Social Science), Understanding Global Environmental Change. Placement Year: Postgraduate Placement Year (faculty of Social Sciences).

Career pathways

With an MSc in Environment and Global Development with a Placement Year, you could launch a career in: International environmental agencies (UNEP, IUCN and so on) Local non-governmental organisations and advocacy groups Higher research (PhD) Private sector companies – e.g. supporting sustainability policies Social enterprises

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