Candidates are welcomed from all social and educational backgrounds. Applicants will normally be expected to have two subjects at A level including geography and preferably a science (12 units) or equivalent Advanced Subsidiary level, supported by passes in five subjects at GCSE Grade A, B or C, which will normally include Mathematics, Science and English, or BTEC National Certificate or Diploma, or Vocational A level (12 units), or Successful completion of an appropriate Access Course. Mature students will be considered if vocational experience, relevant to the course, has been acquired, even if no formal education has been achieved. The School of the Built and Natural Environment has delivered a BSc Environmental Conservation programme for some sixteen years. Such a programme has many similarities to the proposed programmes offered here, particularly within environmental science.

Our environment degrees combine academic study with the development of professional skills and competencies. You will gain experience in transferable employment skills, including: oral and visual presentations environmental assessments information dissemination data analysis species identification habitat surveying identification of environmental stressors report writing Students take part in some volunteering days as part of fieldwork training, and are encouraged to find summer work placements which will provide important work experience. You will be encouraged to use collaborations with work experience providers to collect data for your dissertation (your own major research project in your final year of study).