MSc Environmental Assessment and Management
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Key Details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Science
- Course Length
- 1 year
- Course Start Date
- September 2023
Course Overview
Prepare for a career in environmental management with this vocational course that focuses on the key skills involved.
You’ll learn from international experts how to properly evaluate the potential impacts of proposed policies, plans or projects, drawing on best practice from around the world. Learn through doing, based on an approach of applying theory in practice on a weekly basis, and through a field course.
This course is ideal for anyone who values the socio-ecological environment and wishes to contribute to sustainable development.
You will develop your research, communication, teamwork, and analytical skills – giving you the necessary skills for a career with environmental consultancies, decision-makers, regulators, statutory consultees, and NGOs, amongst others.
On this MSc course, you’ll explore why and how we use environmental assessment, the consequences of good and bad practice, and what different stakeholders expect from it.
You’ll investigate case studies to clearly illustrate how environmental assessment works to deliver more sustainable outcomes. These include (amongst others):
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Planning a strategy for a new deep coal mine
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Planning a stakeholder engagement strategy
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Working out the likely impacts of a biomass power station
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Conducting a phase 1 habitat survey
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Carrying out a sustainability appraisal of a land use plan
You’ll learn to connect the environmental process with the operational stages of development by examining environmental management plans to ensure the findings are implemented. And you’ll experience the challenges associated with developing and applying practical skills by conducting fieldwork in all weathers, interviewing members of the public, presenting findings in front of your peers, and writing environmental management plans including allocating responsibilities and timings.
This course is relevant whether your background is earth sciences or social sciences. There are no specific prerequisites, as the focus is on understanding and improving environmental assessment through the core modules, and a wide range of optional modules that offer additional employability skills associated with specific impact-prediction practice.
Accreditations
This course is accredited by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), the professional body for careers in this field. This gives you one year’s free IEMA membership. After your course you can upgrade to associate level. For more details visit IEMA’s website.
The IEMA accreditation will be relevant to all of these career paths if your employment is based in the UK. The accreditation is independent of the course provision so the outcome doesn’t have any implications for any learning outcomes or skills taught.
Entry Requirements
- Degree Classification
- Bachelors degree - 2.1 or equivalent
- Degree Subject
- Environmental Science or related disciplines across the Social Sciences, Arts and Science.
- English Foreign Language
We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English. To ensure such students benefit from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:
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IELTS: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in two components only, with 6.0 in the other two)
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PTE (Pearson): 64 (minimum 59 in only two components with 64 in the others)
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
Other tests, including Cambridge English exams and the Trinity Integrated Skills in English are also accepted by the university. The full list of accepted tests can be found here: Accepted English Language Tests
INTO UEA also run pre-sessional courses which can be taken prior to the start of your course. For further information and to see if you qualify please contact intopre-sessional@uea.ac.uk.
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- Intakes
This course is open to UK, EU and International applicants. The annual intake for this course is in September each year.
Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2023/24 are:
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UK Students: £10,500 (full time)
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International Students: £21,250 (full time)
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,023 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.
Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Your Environmental Assessment Effectiveness module includes an eight-day field course. This involves two days of travelling, food, and board. The School of Environmental Sciences subsidises half of the field course costs, which cannot be exactly predicted in advance, and covers travel costs. (The cost to students of the most recent trip, after our subsidy, was £235 per student.)
How to Apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk
International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.
Employability
After the Course
This course is essentially vocational, but can lead to PhD-level study if you wish to advance your academic skills in the subject area. Most of our graduates go into the environmental management field working with environmental consultancy companies, regulators, developers or NGOs.
Careers
A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.
Examples of careers you could enter include:
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Environmental consultancy
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Non-governmental organisation (e.g. RSPB)
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Statutory consultee (e.g. Environment Agency or Natural England)
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Decision maker (e.g. local planning authority in the UK)