Environmental Science at Aberdeen benefits from interdisciplinary courses including environmental biology, chemistry and soils, representing the wide range of staff expertise.

Our Environmental Science programme is well suited to employment in nature conservation, in government or non-government conservation organisations and also in countryside departments of local government. Generally opportunities are available within environmental organisations such as environmental protection agencies, or within industries such as water companies or waste management. Environmental legislation and regulations increasingly require more rigorous environmental audit and monitoring. Such changes continue to provide further opportunities for environmental scientists in environmental consultancies, local authorities and environmental protection agencies. There are also many opportunities in environmental education and in the communications sector.