MEnv, BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management (International) is a four-year variant of our BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management programme, and the first two years are common to both. This Integrated Masters degree forms part of the School’s long-established International Study Year Abroad programme.  Students enjoy the unique opportunity of spending a year in North America or Australia, and take a final year of Masters-level modules and research activity back in Leeds. You will benefit enormously from your year abroad as it broadens your horizons and demonstrates a high degree of independence, attributes that are highly valued by prospective employers.

The course focuses on decisions and actions at the interface between human activity and the environment. You will explore the environmental, economic and social implications of decision making, and the strategies involved in finding sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

Throughout your studies you will draw on the disciplines of environmental science and ecology, developing the knowledge and skills that underpin our understanding of sustainability and environmental management. Optional  learning opportunities in politics, policy, economics and law also help you to understand and evaluate societies’ roles in, and interaction with, changes in the natural world.

Reasons to Study MEnv, BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management at Leeds

• This course is part of the UK’s leading Earth and Environment Integrated Masters programme, and allows you to take exciting classes overseas that are fully credited in your degree
• Real value added to your degree and your CV via a year in the USA or Australia and your direct experience of cutting-edge research in Years 3 and 4
• Research-led teaching across the breadth of environmental science, social science and management provided by academics involved in the Earth Energy Environment Institute and the Centre for Low Carbon Futures, and others who are investigating challenges which include the management of UK uplands, and resource governance in sub-Saharan Africa
• You will obtain transferable careers skills, a solid training in data collection and analysis, and independent research via a major project
• Excellent employment prospects with more than 93% of graduates employed six months after graduation
• A fantastic route into relevant employment or a research career for students with a strong interest in the environment

Why study MEnv, BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management?

Governments, societies and researchers now put sustainability at the heart of their thinking about the environment and our place in it. Although the importance of these issues is widely accepted, our demand for natural resources and the waste generated by our lifestyles put the environment under increasing pressure. The health of our planet relies on literate and numerate graduates with a thorough understanding of the environmental, economic and social implications of policy decisions, and the ability to devise strategies and sustainable solutions for environmental problems.

Three aspects make this Integrated Masters programme especially distinctive:

• Your year abroad counts academically towards your degree and can offer the opportunity to carry out independent research
• You gain in-depth knowledge and experience while studying sustainability and environmental management in the context of another continent
• Your final year in Leeds consists of Masters-level modules that reflect the interests you have developed during your degree, and opportunities for independent research from the very wide selection of topics on offer

The Leeds School of Earth and Environment is one of the largest and most vibrant Schools in the UK. Only Leeds has brought Environmental Social Science under the same banner as the full range of related disciplines from Environmental Science and Geology to Meteorology and Geophysics.

Leeds offers state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and new computer clusters in a £23.5 million building that opened in 2010. We are a research-led School where teaching draws on the expertise of academic staff who work at the cutting edge of their international fields. More information on our approach to learning and teaching can be found here.

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