All our degrees are taught by academics who are global experts in their fields. We offer you the opportunity to study and work with these experts, who will provide you with first-class training for your future career and equip you with a broad range of transferable skills that are highly valued by employers.
The teaching in the School was rated as 'excellent', the highest grade, by the Higher Educational Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the teaching quality assessment.
Our Undergraduate courses span three interdisciplinary areas: Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Geography.
Earth Sciences
We offer the following undergraduate degree courses in Earth Sciences:
Geology, or Earth Science, is the scientific study of our planet: its formation, its structure and its evolution. Every aspect of modern life has a geological connection, from fuel for the cars we drive to building materials for the houses we live in; it truly is a global science. Geology is arguably more diverse than any other subject, including as it does, aspects of biology, geography, environmental science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and computing to name but a few. Geologists study everything the Earth has to offer, from rocks and fossils to volcanoes and earthquakes; some travel to the farthest reaches of the world, others create their own world in a lab.
In the 2011 National Student Survey 94% of students said that overall they were satisfied with the quality of our geology courses.
Environmental Sciences
We offer the following undergraduate degree courses in Environmental Sciences:
Lesley Batty, Programme Leader "Surely we must safeguard an environment for the future in which species and societies can thrive."
Academic study of the environment, whether at a global, national or local scale, has evolved rapidly in recent years, and there has never been a greater impetus to understand and resolve complex environmental issues. Environmental scientists study interactions between physical, chemical and biological processes in the environment, and their application to the resolution of environmental problems.
Geography
We offer the following undergraduate degree courses in Geography:
We are passionate about both human and physical Geography here at Birmingham. The University has been awarding Geography degrees for more than 80 years. You will join a department that can offer you the chance to study the full breadth of the subject – from the development and regeneration of our cities, to the business economy; from the culture of the world’s peoples, to the needs of sustainability; from the causes and impacts of climate change, to the processes that shape rivers and support their ecosystems; from the impacts of pollution on health, to the hazards of the natural world and the risks created by human activity.