Overview

The Environmental Change and Management programme at the University of Oxford seeks to produce environmental leaders who are interdisciplinary and analytical in their approach to environmental issues, and competent and aware decision makers.

This course has three overarching aims, to:

examine the nature, causes and impacts of major types of environmental change. How do these changes operate and interact on global, regional and local scales? How do they relate to critical social and ecological systems?

examine the economic, legal, cultural, and ethical underpinnings of environmental responsibility and systemic solutions, including mitigation, adaptation, remediation, enhanced resource stewardship and other sustainable responses to environmental change at different scales and within different organisational contexts; and

empower environmental leaders to address the world’s most pressing environmental problems through an understanding of and training in the key analytical and practical skills, and in a broad appreciation of earth systems and societies in relation to environmental change.

Supervision

The allocation of graduate supervision for this course is the responsibility of the School of Geography and the Environment and it is not always possible to accommodate the preferences of incoming graduate students to work with a particular member of staff.

Under exceptional circumstances a supervisor may be found outside the School of Geography and the Environment. Students should expect to meet with their supervisors for about eight hours.

Graduate destinations

ECM alumni are pursuing careers with a wide range of organisations. Examples include government departments (eg Japan's Ministry of the Environment, Ontario Ministry of Finance), non-governmental organisations (eg the Carbon Trust, World Wildlife Fund), business organisations (eg McKinsey and Company, Ericsson Enterprise) and international agencies (World Food Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Some students use the course as a starting point for pursuing PhD (DPhil) research.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Earth System

Global Change and the Biosphere

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change

New Environmental Economic Thinking

Energy Systems and Mitigating Climate Change

Sustainable Responses to Environmental Change

Governing the Anthropocene

Research Skills.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-01 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

More details

The application deadlines for this course are being updated in preparation for the next admission cycle.

Language

English

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110

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7.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Oxford, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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110

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Other requirements

General requirements

As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the following UK qualifications or their equivalent:

a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in any discipline.
For applicants with a bachelor's degree from the USA, the minimum overall GPA that is normally required to meet the undergraduate-level requirement is 3.6 out of 4.0. However, selection of candidates also depends on other factors in your application and most successful applicants have achieved higher GPA scores.
This course requires proficiency in English at the University's higher level.

Tuition Fees

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36170 GBP / year

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26820 GBP / year

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Living costs

Oxford

United Kingdom

939 - 1530 GBP / month

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Programme Structure

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