Why Environmental Science @ Dundee?

Let us give you 12 good reasons to choose Dundee:

  1. Top university for learning - rated UK No. 1 for its teaching excellence by the Times Good University Guide 2006.
  2. Choice - BSc and MA undergraduate programmes allow you to develop progression routes and module combinations reflecting your strengths and interests.
  3. Flexible - a modular structure allows you to build your own programme at each of four levels of study; we can also accommodate direct entry to our second year for highly-qualified applicants, and offer part-time study for those who wish it.
  4. Underpinned by research - all academic staff are based in research-active academic units, ensuring that your degree programme is underpinned by cutting-edge expertise, providing you with competitive advantage when seeking further study or employment opportunities. Several staff, for example, have been engaged as advisors to government agencies and departments to advise on implementing the EU Water Framework Directive for lakes, rivers and estuaries, and have published results in international journals.
  5. Fieldwork is given strong emphasis at Levels 2, 3 and 4, taking you from the glens of Highland Scotland to south-east Spain. We value fieldwork as an essential element of the learning process.
  6. Interdisciplinary - Our integrated modules allow you to make to most of research-active staff from a wide range of scientific backgrounds - all the life sciences, chemistry, geology, oceanography, geography, hydrology, glaciology, sedimentology, geomorphology, physics, remote sensing.
  7. Outstanding support - The University has invested heavily in providing outstanding support facilities - from electronic library resources, to individually-tailored support for writing skills, to personal development planning support, to sports facilities, disability services... not to mention our environmental lab facilities (e.g. an environmental diagnostics lab and its grain-size analysis and magnetic susceptibility equipment) and field gear such as millimetre-accurate survey equipment and river flow measuring devices.
  8. Transferable skills - our course design builds on the results of dialogue with employers, emphasising the development of transferable skills such as IT, oral, independent learning and group working skills.
  9. Broadly-based assessment - we pride ourselves in a diversity of assessment methods which reflect student performance in a range of tasks, and avoid excessive reliance on exams.
  10. Well connected - staff have many contacts in environmental management and consultancy, with expeditions and other academic units, all of which can be used to provide invaluable experience for students in their final-year projects.
  11. Excellent prospects - the environment is booming! Growing pressures on scarce resources, concern over the effects of climate change and increasingly ambitious European directives mean there has never been a time to be an Environmental Science graduate.
  12. Living - the cost of living in Dundee is 14% less than the UK average. Dundee was named as the most cost effective Scottish city for students by the Royal Bank of Scotland Student Living Index 2005.

Want more reasons? No problem. We'd be delighted to talk to you on a visit day, or feel free to get in touch:

Dr Andrew Black
Programme Convener, Environmental Science
Geography
University of Dundee
DUNDEE DD1 4HN

Tel: 01382 384433 (International: +44 1382 384433)
Fax: 01382 386773 (International: +44 1382 386773)
Email: a.z.black@dundee.ac.uk

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