MSc Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Reconstruction at University of Manchester

Develop your practical expertise, environmental data handling and analysis skills at master's level. Gain the scientific skills to investigate environmental change, understand how landscapes and ecosystems respond over time, and inform evidence-based responses to future environmental challenges. Learn from internationally recognised experts tackling contemporary and long-term climate change and environmental challenges.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities  |  Department: School of Environment, Education and Development  |  Duration: 1 year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

A master’s degree is formed of 180 credits. 120 of these credits are made up by a mix of mandatory and optional course units, with 60 credits taken in each semester. The availability of individual course units may be subject to change. Compulsory units include Environmental Change & Reconstruction 1: Concepts in Stratigraphy and Geochronology, Environmental Change and Reconstruction 2: Palaeoecology in Practice, Dissertation Support, Dissertation MSc in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Reconstruction, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Practice, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Concepts.

Career pathways

You will gain practical, analytical and research skills relevant across environmental, scientific, public, private and third-sector roles. Graduates go on to shape environmental policy through positions in the public and private sectors, and the dissertation also provides a strong foundation for PhD research.

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