MSc Environmental Modelling and Data Analysis

You will take the following compulsory units:

• Environmental Modelling Applications
• Earth Systems Modelling
• Introduction to Scientific Computing
• Mapping and Modelling Geographic Data in R or Introduction to Geographical Information Systems/Remote Sensing.

You will choose a further two units from the list of postgraduate units offered by the School of Geographical Sciences. For example:

• Data Science and Machine Learning in Geography
• Climate Change: Science and impacts
• Quantifying Climate Risk
• Urban Analytics and City Science.

A key component of the programme is the dissertation. The bulk of the dissertation work will take place during summer months. The dissertation provides students with practical experience of formulating, designing, and undertaking a substantive and original piece of research in environmental modelling and/or satellite observation. Students are introduced to key principles of research design and research ethics through intensive training in this unit.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc in Environmental Modelling and Data Analysis.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in an Engineering, Mathematics or a Physical Science subject. Applicants with non-standard degree subjects are required to have achieved 60% (or international equivalent) in a module taken in the final two years of study focussing on:

• Environmental, Climate, Hydrological or Urban Modelling
• Remote Sensing
• Earth Observation
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Geographic Data Science

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date. We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing details of your relevant qualifications:

a relevant postgraduate qualification in Engineering, Mathematics or Physical Sciences.

• evidence of relevant work experience with minimum of 2 years full-time or 3 years part-time (internships also considered) in one of the relevant sectors: Environmental consultancy/management/monitoring with particular focus on numerical modelling, GIS, data science and/or satellite observations.

If this is the case, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / resume;) when you apply, showing details of your relevant work experience and/or qualifications.

Specific module requirements would still apply.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.