MSc River Environments and their Management

Oliver, a current student on the course, talks about studying on the MSc River Environmental Management course and the opportunities it will provide for his career progression.

TitleMSc River Environments and their Management (click to view video)

Duration: 2.09 mins

Speaker Names (if given): S1 Oliver Clegg, MSc River Environmental Management (REM) student.

S1 So I'm Oliver Clegg and I'm studying River Environments and their Management MSc. 

I enjoy a lot about my course, but specifically, one thing I really enjoy is the amount of time the lecturers have for you. I think the jump from undergraduate to a Masters is one that lecturers recognise, they recognise that you're more financially and personally invested in the course, and so they make that investment back to you in terms of time.

I spoke to my lecturers about careers. I've spoken to them about even finding part time work at university now. And another example of the time that they give to you is a trip that was given to us by one of our course leads. My course is very physically based and it's important to be able to translate what would we be taught in the lecture theatre to what happens in the real world. And so we got taken on a trip to to a river in Derbyshire where there's some interesting limestone geology there. And it just made a big difference to us in terms of being able to properly understand and take in what has been taught to us in the lecture theatre and how it translates the real world, which will be applicable in careers too.

Things about my course that I know will benefit me, are the doors it’ll open for me in terms of careers. So already one of the first things you get told on the course is the contacts the university has with local and national businesses and how in demand people that do my course, and other similar courses, are. I’ve been told a few times there are often more companies that come in to employ students after this course than there are students on the course, and adding a Masters to your kind of CV just makes you that bit more sellable to companies that are wanting to employ people.

I'm applying for jobs now. I've been able to say that I'm doing a Masters from the University of Birmingham on a course that’s as sort after as this, is, I know, a big feather in my cap.

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