University of East Anglia (UEA), BSc (Hons), Environmental Sciences

Every person alive is profoundly influenced by their environment every day, but how well do you understand your environment and how it is affecting you? This degree programme provides you with the opportunity to understand how the components of the natural environment function and analyse the complicated social, political and cultural processes that impact upon it.

Our knowledge in this sphere is constantly evolving and the environmental science degree at UEA provides the opportunity to engage with experts at the forefront of this evolution. UEA houses the oldest and largest school of environmental sciences in the UK with specialists that span atmospheric, oceanographic, geological, social and ecological disciplines. Studying Environmental Sciences at UEA will enable you to learn from experts who have contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and access world class facilities such as the Weybourne Atmospheric Laboratory.

Throughout this three year course you will acquire a wide range of skills, enabling you to apply the most rigorous scientific analyses to current problems caused by the way in which mankind is changing our environment at a greater rate than ever before.

This course is accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Students will be eligible for Associate Membership of the IES upon graduation, with the opportunity of achieving Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) or Chartered Scientist (CSci) status.