BSc in Environmental Management with Professional Studies

In BSc in Environmental Management with Professional Studies, the growing changes affecting the natural environment, and the increasing role of environmental policies affecting businesses and organizations are creating new and challenging career opportunities for those familiar with issues of sustainable development, planning, and environmental protection and management.

The BSc in Environmental Management with Professional Studies explores the physical, social, economic, and cultural aspects of environmental management. It combines aspects of science, geography, and environmental planning with an environmental work placement to understand the environmental systems in which we live and work.

Students will be enabled to understand; issues of sustainable development, conservation, and environmental protection and management, the integrated and holistic nature of environmental management, and how to devise, manage and critically evaluate project work.

Environmental Management With Professional Studies Degree Highlights

Students on this course will undertake a 46-week placement in an organization which will help to develop the vital skills they will need to progress to employment.

Professional Accreditations

• Degrees accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Industry Links

• Students must complete a one-year placement between Stages 2 and 3. This placement will help students apply their degree to a workplace environment, and build a foundation for future career opportunities. Work placements take place in a wide range of organizations including Farrans, Northstone Quarries, SITA Waste Management, Ulster Wildlife Trust, Colin Glen, National Trust, Property developers, Property management companies, Environmental consultancies, and Councils. Work placement overseas is encouraged and students have worked in America, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and England.

World Class Facilities

• This program is jointly delivered by the School of Biological Sciences and by the School of Natural and Built Environment. Students will benefit from the facilities available in these two schools, including a Marine Laboratory in Portaferry. Environmental Management is linked closely to the Institute for Global Food Security, one of the three major research centers in the University, and it is primarily taught by members of the Institute.

Internationally Renowned Experts

• The course will include ‘Dragons’ Den presentations to external experts in the final year for the module Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Planning and Geography modules will host guest lectures from business practitioners. Site visits will be an important component of many modules, including Environmental Management, Environmental Assessment, Policies for Environmental Sustainability, Dynamic Earth, and Environmental Change.