Environmental Governance The University of Manchester

Overview

The Environmental Governance programme offered at The University of Manchester will equip you with the skills to critically apply cutting-edge sustainability and environmental theories across different scales and global contexts. With an interdisciplinary approach, you'll learn to understand and challenge the systems that influence our environment today. 

Career opportunities

MSc Environmental Governance responds to a growing need for social, economic and political experts in the environmental field, and our graduates are highly employable in what is an expanding sector.

Graduates possess theoretical knowledge, political understanding and practical research skills, preparing you for careers in either the public, private or voluntary environmental sectors, or for further research on environmental governance within a university or think-tank environment.

You will be equipped to work for organisations like the Environment Agency, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Soil Association, and the Department of Environment Food and Agriculture, among many others.

The students have been successful in obtaining funded PhD places and gaining employment with private consultancies and international NGOs.

Geography graduates in general have particularly great employment prospects and go on to shape environmental policy through positions in the public and private sectors.

The graduates have gone on to successful careers in areas including consultancy, research, non-governmental organisations, project management, environmental management, agriculture and forestry, environmental sciences, energy, oil and gas, marketing, finance and water.

Top employers include:

• DEFRA;

• the Environment Agency;

• Natural England;

• the Organic Soil Association;

• the UK Atomic Energy Authority;

• UNEP.