About Msc Environmental Practice in Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

The impact humans make on the environment has never been so pressing, or so high profile. Governments, researchers and private organisations are still grappling with the potential solutions for global challenges. Our MSc Environmental Practice provides an answer. It’s your chance to look beyond the headlines and explore the scientific, political and practical realities of protecting the environment.

As such, you’ll cover a diverse range of units throughout the programme. On one hand, you’ll develop skills in assessing, monitoring and modelling pollution in the air, water and land, as well as measuring ecosystem degradation. On the other, you’ll learn to apply environmental management tools, impact assessment procedures and carbon management methods.

Finally, you’ll also learn about sustainable development principles and environmental policies – and how to evaluate their implementation. This mix of policy, practice and science will take you from the classroom to the field to the lab. While you’ll develop desk-based assessment approaches, explore key concepts and analyse evidence in lectures and seminars, understanding the environment means getting out into the environment.

So, as well as various opportunities for field trips, you’ll get out into the field for a residential course where you’ll conduct an interdisciplinary environmental assessment. To help you develop your practical skills, you’ll learn in an altogether more cutting-edge environment – with high-spec teaching and research labs equipped with state-of-art analytical and computing equipment.

Features and Benefits

• ractical focus – Explore a range of in-depth case studies and learn from practitioners in the field, giving you a real-world understanding of environmental management. 
• Cutting-edge equipment – Learn the latest analysis and monitoring techniques, with everything from a Cray supercomputer for climate modelling and GIS facilities for spatial modelling, to spectrometer, spectroradiometers and particulate meters.
• Research expertise – We’re home to leading research groups like the Ecology and Environment Research Centre, and the Centre for Aviation Transport and the Environment, which was part of the Nobel Peace Prize winning team for work on climate change.
• Professional impact – With a mix of practical skills, latest science and industry-standard equipment, this programme offers the professional tools you’ll need for your career in the field.
• Award-winning standards – Our Department has won several Green Apple awards, recognising the quality of our environmental education and practice.

Career prospects

This is a specialist course, designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you’ll need for a career in environmental management or science at a strategic level. That could include consultancy roles in analytical chemistry (i.e. air, water, soil), carbon management, ecosystem services management, environmental management systems, impact assessment or in strategic impact assessment.

As such, it’s a masters qualification that could take you into a range of different organisations, from public sector environmental agencies and charitable sector environmental companies to private businesses and research organisations. Today, you’ll find previous graduates from our Department working in organisations including the NHS, Natural England, Stockport Homes, Sefton Council and the Environment Agency.  

Once you leave us, you should be equipped with the knowledge and career readiness skills to support the transition to a more sustainable future for a wide range of potential employers.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Bachelor degree (awarded by a recognised university); or BA, BCom, BBA, BBM, BMM; or BE (Engineering), BTech.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS      :      6.5, with no component below 5.5 for MA or MSc.
• TOEFL    :      Overall score: 89 With no individual test score below:Listening: 17,Reading: 18,Speaking: 20,Writing : 17
• PTE         :       61, with no less than 51 in any section

Manchester Metropolitan University Highlights

Manchester Metropolitan University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• The estimated cost of attendance while studying in the UK depends on several factors like the program applied for, tuition fees, books and supplies, housing, dining, transportation etc.
• Estimated Tuition Fees for 2020-2021 academic session at Manchester Metropolitan University are:

• Tuition Fees for some courses can vary depending upon any additional cost such as field trips or expense of equipment.
• Tuition Fees for postgraduate research courses (Ph.D., MPhil, MRes) are categorized into 5 Tuition bands,
• Students can expect an average cost of living ranging from 7,500 - 8,500 EUR per year, based on the minimum expenses.