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Undergraduate 2027

Undergraduate 2025

BSc | Undergraduate

Environmental Management

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Entry year : Academic Year 2027/28

Entry requirements : BBB/ABB

Attendance : 3 years (Full-time) \

UCAS Code : F850

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The growing changes affecting the natural environment, and the increasing role of environmental policies affecting businesses and organisations are creating new and challenging career opportunities for those familiar with issues of sustainable development, planning and environmental protection and management.\ \ The BSc in Environmental Management explores the physical, social, economic and cultural aspects of environmental management. It combines aspects of science, geography and environmental planning with an environmental work placement to understand the environmental systems in which we live and work.\ \ Students will be enabled to understand; issues of sustainable development, conservation and environmental protection and management, the integrated and holistic nature of environmental management and how to devise, manage and critically evaluate project work.

Students undertaking this BSc will have the opportunity to undertake a 16 week placement as part of their studies in year 2.

Course highlights

Professional Accreditations

Degrees accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP).

Industry Links

Students have the opportunity to undertake a 16-week, work placement as an integral part of Stage 2. This placement will help students apply their degree to a work place environment, and build a foundation for future career opportunities. Work placements take place in a wide range of organisations including Farrans, Northstone Quarries, SITA Waste Management, Ulster Wildlife Trust, Colin Glen, National Trust, Property developers, Property management companies, Environmental consultancies and Councils. Work placement overseas is encouraged and students have worked in America, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and England.

Internationally Renowned Experts

The course will include ‘Dragons’ Den’ presentations to external experts in the final year for the module Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Planning and Geography modules will host guest lectures from business practitioners. Site visits will be an important component of many modules, including Environmental Management, Environmental Assessment, Dynamic Earth and Environmental Change.

Student Experience

This is a unique interdisciplinary course shared between two Schools – Biological Sciences and Natural and Built Environment.

Further Study Opportunities

Graduates from this course have continued further education studying MSc programmes in Ecological Management and Conservation Biology; Leadership for Sustainable (Rural) Development, and PhD programmes in Ecosystem Biology and Sustainability

"As part of my degree in Environment Management, I was offered a one-year placement with RPS, a leading multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy. During this time I worked on important projects and gained practical skills in report writing, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), field surveys and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Following completion of my undergraduate degree I was offered a full-time position as a Graduate Scientist with RPS Group, before being promoted to Senior Scientist in January 2016."\ \ Francis MacKin, Environmental Management Graduate

“I am a Graduate Surveyor in the Valuation and Professional Services Department in Lambert Smith Hampton’s Dublin office. After graduating from Queen’s, I have been working on the valuation of various retail, office, industrial, development land and mixed use investment properties across Ireland.”\ \ \ Philip Lennon, Environmental Management Student (2015).

"As part of my degree in Environment Management, I was offered a one-year placement with RPS, a leading multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy. During this time I worked on important projects and gained practical skills in report writing, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), field surveys and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Following completion of my undergraduate degree I was offered a full-time position as a Graduate Scientist with RPS Group, before being promoted to Senior Scientist in January 2016."\ \ Francis MacKin, Environmental Management Graduate

“I am a Graduate Surveyor in the Valuation and Professional Services Department in Lambert Smith Hampton’s Dublin office. After graduating from Queen’s, I have been working on the valuation of various retail, office, industrial, development land and mixed use investment properties across Ireland.”\ \ \ Philip Lennon, Environmental Management Student (2015).

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