MSc Environmental Management
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Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 12 months Part Time: 24 months
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Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 12 months Part Time: 24 months
Gain a solid grounding in the scientific principles behind environmental management issues and participate in field- and laboratory-based research projects with our MSc Environmental Management programme.
Choose MSc Environmental Management at the University of Reading
- Study at the UK’s leading university for environmental and ethical performance (the University of Reading is ranked 1st in the People and Planet University League, 2023/24)
- The University is among the top ten UK universities for Environmental Sciences in world rankings (Reading is 9th out of the UK universities ranked in the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2024, Environmental Sciences).
- Ranked 3rd in the UK for research power in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences (Times Higher Education, Institutions Ranked by Subject, based on its analysis of the latest REF 2021)
- In 2023, the University of Reading was the first ever winner of the Times Higher Education (THE) award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership
- The University of Reading has been named Sustainable University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
With this interdisciplinary course, you’ll be taught at both the University of Reading’s Department of Geography and Environmental Science and School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, taking advantage of outstanding teaching environment and modern facilities.
Your studies will cater to a range of interests and career destinations, including modules that relate to:
- contaminated and urban environments
- the implications of, and solutions to, environmental change
- issues affecting the management of agricultural and rural environments.
Accreditation
This programme is accredited by the Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences (CHES), the education committee of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES). CHES is the collective voice of the environmental sciences academic community and serves to enhance the quality of environmental education worldwide.
A programme accredited by CHES is assured to meet high standards, contain a strong component of practical, field and theoretical activities, and has excellent opportunities for training, work experience, and links to the professional environmental sector.
Students enrolled on CHES-accredited programmes can apply for free Student Membership of the IES and for a fast-track route to membership once they graduate, starting them on a route towards becoming a Chartered Environmentalist or Chartered Scientist.
Your learning environment
The course is shaped and developed through partnerships with industry professionals, and it promotes strong experiential learning including field-based and lab-based teaching.
Our custom-designed, specialised research facilities include:
- laboratories
- instrumentation for work in molecular ecology and biochemistry, environmental chemistry and environmental physics
- experimental polytunnels
- glasshouses.
You will also have access to superb, controlled environment facilities, as well as experimental farms, where you’ll have extensive opportunities for fieldwork.
The course also includes an optional, free-of-charge residential field class that provides real experience and allows you to put your theoretical knowledge into practice.
Your learning journey
The MSc Environmental Management programme is designed to equip you with a thorough understanding of the scientific and socio-economic principles of environmental management, and skills applicable to a wide range of environmental careers.
Through a combination of core and optional modules, you’ll gain expertise in current regulatory processes. You will also develop the technical, research and business skills that underpin environmental management in society, industry and government. These skills include:
- how to conduct and write an environmental risk assessment
- the valuation of non-market goods and ecosystem services
- team-working skills, by engaging with team-based learning
- drafting policy briefings and tenders
- producing and presenting consultancy reports
- oral presentations.