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This is your future

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Get ready to join a global technological community that helps brilliant thinkers turn inspiration into reality, encouraging innovation, experimentation and creative thinking.

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Choose Manchester and you'll benefit from world-class teaching from renowned scientists.

You will enjoy life-changing field trips and use our facilities to understand the world and help tackle global challenges affecting the planet. All while you acquire the skills and hands-on experience for a career with unlimited opportunities.

We focus on developing the skills desired by graduate employers: a passion for learning, multidisciplinary problem-solving, team-working, communication skills, numeracy and programming.

Meet your Head of Department

Prof Mike Burton welcomes you to Manchester

Discover more

Top 10

Study at a UK top 10 university for Earth and Environmental Sciences. (THE World Rankings 2021)

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Explore

Explore different areas before you decide your pathway in Earth and Planetary Sciences or Environmental Sciences.

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Across the world

Journey across the world on cv-enhancing field trips that will equip you with transferable skills.

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Close community

Join a close-knit, multicultural student community with many societies to get involved with.

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Learning and support

Your learning experience

How can you make a difference?

We're helping to tackle global challenges, and we want you to be a part of it.

Discover the pathways open to you as an Earth and Environmental Sciences student.

Example materials in Evolution and Palaeobiology

Explore engaging online course content for seven lectures delivered to students as part of this course unit.

Discover this unit : with online course material for Evolution and Palaeobiology

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Taster lectures

Get a taste for Earth and Environmental Sciences: explore our short taster sessions. 

View lectures : with online materials for Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils

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Work in the field

Emma Conway, a fourth year Geology MEarthSci student, shared the highlights of her time completing field work on her degree.

Read Emma's story

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VIDEO: Environmental modelling at Manchester

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Student support

Your health, wellbeing and safety

At Manchester, we offer all our students support and encouragement to stay happy and healthy at university.

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Peer-assisted Study Sessions (PASS)

PASS sessions offer you the opportunity to gain support, advice and help with your studies from students who have been your position.  

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Cost of Living

Here's how we support current students with their finances while they're studying with us.

Find out more : about financial support

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Scholarship ceremony

Watch our students from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering celebrating their achievements in our recent scholarship award ceremony.

Click here to learn more about our scholarships.

Student life at Manchester

Student life at Manchester

Explore the experience you’ll enjoy in the department.

We’re one of the largest departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the UK, giving you access to a vibrant community of students, lecturers and researchers.   

You will also benefit from small-group working and a close working relationship with renowned, world-leading teachers in their field. 

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Day in the life of an earth scientist

Sanya Panda, MEarthSci Earth Sciences with Industrial Experience

Meet Sanya, and follow her on a day in her life as an earth and environmental sciences student.

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Two of our students took over our Instagram to share their experience as students in the Department.

Watch the takeover

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Our student community

Join our student community through GEMS (Geology and Environment for Manchester Students) society.

Visit GEMS on Facebook : about marine geology and geophysics

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Wasim’s experience

Wasim Mustafa, a fourth-year MEarthSci student, reflects on his experiences of Geology as an undergraduate.

Read more : about Wasim's experiences

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Careers and employability

Make a difference

Benefit from our research into climate change, pollution and ecosystem conservation, energy and resources, opening doors to roles that can make a difference. Fieldwork will give you multidisciplinary problem-solving and team-working skills, which graduate employers actively look for.

  • Employability: 82% (15 months after graduation, Graduate Outcomes Survey, 2019)
  • Average salary: £26,711 (15 months after graduation, Graduate Outcomes Survey, 2019)
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My Summer placement

Second year earth and planetary sciences student Sanya describes her experience in applying for and completing a Summer internship.

Read more : about Sanya's summer internship

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My graduate journey - 1 year on

Matt’s passion for the natural world led to him pursuing a career that would allow him to protect the natural environment. 

Read more : Meet our alumni: an interview with Jonathan Hicks

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My graduate journey - 2 years on

Madeleine tells us how her interest in corporate social responsibility and planet conservation secured her an influential job at Finastra.

Read more : of our alumni Madeleine Loveday

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My graduate journey - 10 years on

Alicia's career as a Mining Technology Consultant allows her to travel the world, from the Surinamese jungle to the Kalahari desert.

Read Alicia's blog : Meet our alumni: an interview with Alicia McCabe

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Contact our admissions staff if you have any further questions. 

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News and stories from across the Department. 

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Meet your lecturers

Introducing our current first year teaching team.

Find out more about the lecturers who'll deliver your first year modules. They will develop your skills, knowledge and understanding as well as inspire you in the subject, and specialist areas, they are experts in.

Meet the team : who will be teaching you.

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