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Undergraduate 2027

Undergraduate 2025

BA | Undergraduate

Geography

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Entry year : Academic Year 2027/28

Entry requirements : BBB

Attendance : 3 years (Full-time) \

UCAS Code : L800

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Geography embraces the study of human societies and their environment, and is one of the few subjects in which human and physical aspects of the environment are integrated. Our BA Geography degree offers a distinctive pathway through our geography programmes that emphasises skills and techniques in social as well as arts & humanities research, including ethnographic investigation, discourse analysis and archival research. Students are free to choose thematic modules from across the geography programme, which may include human and physical geography. These modules reflect our disciplinary expertise across three areas of geographical research: culture, space & power; population, economy & society; and geosciences.

92.3% of Geography students positive assessment of the quality of the Geography course (NSS 2025)

Course highlights

Global Opportunities

There are many exciting opportunities to study abroad, with options to spend one semester or one academic year in places such as continental Europe, the USA, Canada or Australia. \ Our international field trips allow students to study geography in unique places such as Malta, Mallorca, and Belgium.

Industry Links

We maintain links with a large number of employers including the NI Environment Agency, Ordnance Survey, National Trust and the Geological Survey of NI. \ Students have the opportunity to work on collaborative client-led projects with local and national employers such as Belfast City Council and Habitat for Humanity.

Career Development

We offer a designated ‘Geography and Employability’ module that is run in collaboration with QUB’s Careers, Employability and Skills directorate. This includes employer workshops, job application skills development, and one-to-one meetings with tutors and careers professionals. Our Year 3 Civic Engagement module continues this with focussed, placement style research in Year 3.

World Class Facilities

.The Elmwood Building, home of Geography at Queen’s, houses a state-of-the-art lecture theatre, refurbished and adaptable teaching spaces, the Centre for GIS and Geomatics, an extensive Map Library, the GeoArc Laboratory for analysing water and sediment samples, and a furnished student resource room.

Internationally Renowned Experts

Geography at Queen’s is home to a community of world- leading experts in geographical research, including in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Cultural and Historical Geography, Geopolitics, GIS and Population Geography.

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/Disciplines/Geography/

Student Experience

Field Trips\ Second-year students have the opportunity to select from a range of international fieldtrips, which currently includes ‘Mitigating Environmental Hazards’ (Belgium), ‘Exploring Dynamic Environments’ (Mallorca), and ‘Space, Culture & Mobility’ (Malta).\ \ We also offer a number of domestic fieldtrips throughout the degree programme, such as Tollymore (Newcastle), Scrabo (Newtownards) and Mount Stewart (Co. Down). \ \ Geography Community\ Our aim is to build and maintain a vibrant on-campus community of academic staff, technical and support staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students. Students are encouraged to join the Geography Society, which hosts social events throughout the academic year, and are invited to contribute to, and join the editorial team, of our in-house student journal The Graticule.

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