Environmental Science for Sustainability King's College London

Overview

This Environmental Science for Sustainability programme at King's College London will enable you to learn skills that are actively sought by employers as environmental science training is now critical to ensure environmental sustainability across all industries. You will also get the opportunity to tailor your studies to your particular career and/or research interests. 

Key Benefits

• Enjoy a leading programme from a world class university that is highly practical providing training laboratory skills, computer skills and field skills

• Establish a cutting edge understanding of the environmental science needed to evaluate environmental sustainability and change critically and to identify  appropriate solutions and their societal and business implications.

• Learn quantitative research skills including Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, modelling and monitoring, applied to environmental sustainability.

• Offers a flexible and blended approach to learning enabling you to fit the programme around other commitments and maximises the use of class time for critical engagement, discussion and reflection.

• Develop independent critical judgment in identifying, analysing and solving problems at an advanced level guidance by world-leading academics and practitioners.  

• The programme also offers an internship module* that can be taken in-person or online with one of more than 60 environmental organisations

• Complement technical skills with highly employable skills in communication, data analysis and interpretation, evidence-based decision making, practical problem-solving, leadership, and team working.

• Learn sustainability science in a sustainable way - King’s College London is fully divested from all fossil fuel investment, the Department of Geography has been awarded gold status by the National Union of Students (NUS) Green Impact scheme for its commitment to sustainability, and the Geography Lab also being awarded Gold in the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF). 

Career prospects

Graduates from the Environmental Science For Sustainability are well suited to secure careers in local government, the private sector, national and international environmental and development NGOs, as well as in public or private research institutions. Skills developed could be  applied to careers in environmental management, in regulatory, compliance or consulting settings. 

Future careers  could see you in the field of environmental sustainability in environmental and social governance units of  private sector organisations. You could also be moving on to doctoral research in a broad range of environmental science-related topics.