Environmental Science University of Copenhagen

Overview

The Environmental Science MSc programme gives you knowledge and competences which society is increasingly demanding.

The specialisation Chemistry, Toxicology and Health (ChemTox) is composed of the subject areas atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, human toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment. The subject areas provide you with the interdisciplinary knowledge required to link the presence of pollutants in the environment with their possible hazardous and environmentally harmful effects.

Soil and Water is centred around physical, chemical and biological processes and their interactions in the environment. You'll learn strategies and methods for solving environmental problems and ensure good quality of soils and freshwater systems.

Career opportunities

As a graduate with expertise in Environmental Science from University of Copenhagen, you have many career opportunities, and you are generally highly sought-after in the labour market. For instance in an international perspective where new and ambitious EU legislation in the chemicals area is creating many jobs within the EU administration and in companies required to comply with the new legislation.

You can be employed in similar places with the four specialisations. With the ChemTox specialisation, however, your main focus will most likely be on challenges concerning chemical pollution identification, remediation, prevention, and legislation. The Model-specialisation enables you to collaborate with developers of the models used for regulation of land use and chemicals, whereas the Soil and Water as well as the EnvEuro specialisation gives you a broader profile including more environmental issues where chemicals are not necessarily the main problem.