Overview

In addition, the Pollution and Environmental Control program at The University of Manchester provides you with a strong grounding in the quantitative and qualitative skills required to address the questions raised by these environmental impacts, providing you with multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject using theoretical, practical and modelling based approaches.

Following the taught element, you have the opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge in a research project supervised by members of our internationally-acclaimed research team.

Aims

The aim of this course is to

• Provide interdisciplinary foundation training for students from a natural science or engineering background intending to pursue a career, with or without further postgraduate training, in managing pollution.
• To attract and nurture high calibre students and prepare them for work by providing them with general field and/or laboratory experience, quantitative data analysis and communication skills that will be vital for their future professional development.
• To instill in students the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to solving environmental problems, and to enable them to recognise when and which additional disciplines should be engaged.
• To train students in the importance of science in the commercial and regulatory sectors plus the wider community, including the importance of presenting and communicating their science and the importance of addressing ethical issues raised by their science.
• To enable students to make an informed decision about their personal suitability and motivation for a research career.

Career opportunities

Graduates from theMSc in Pollution and Environmental Controlhave been very successful in obtaining relevant environment-related employment in areas such as industry, local and central authorities, the regulatory sector, consultancies, education and research. Typically, between 20 and 30% of students completing the programme undertake postgraduate research immediately after graduation.

The graduates go on to become:

• Environmental Consultants;
• Managing Directors and CEOs;
• Environmental Scientists;
• Professors, Researchers and Academics.