Biodiversity and Conservation MSc

Course overview

Understanding how to conserve biodiversity has never been more important.

Delivered by leading international researchers in biodiversity and conservation, this course focuses on the biological principles underlying biodiversity, its assessment and management.

You’ll understand the ecological factors behind biodiversity and conservation, learn key field skills for assessing and managing biodiversity and gain key analytical skills for a range of academic and professional careers.

Your learning will be heavily influenced by our researcher's world-leading research, which drives national and international policy agendas around environmental change and global sustainability.

This course is designed to prepare you for a career in ecology or conservation, or for further research at PhD level. If you’re already an established conservation professional, our modules provide additional skills to support you to progress in your employment.

Applying

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally have a bachelor’s degree with at least a 2:1 in a relevant subject.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component. For other English qualifications, read English language equivalent qualifications.

Improve your English

International students who do not meet the English language requirements for this programme may be able to study our postgraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.

This pre-sessional course is designed with a progression route to your degree programme and you’ll learn academic English in the context of your subject area. To find out more, read Language for Science (6 weeks) and Language for Science: General Science (10 weeks).

We also offer online pre-sessionals alongside our on-campus pre-sessionals. Find out more about our six week online pre-sessional and our 10 week online pre-sessional.

You can also study pre-sessionals for longer periods – read about our postgraduate pre-sessional English courses.

Career opportunities

Our graduates have gone on to a very varied range of biodiversity and conservation jobs and careers around the world.

Our proactive Industrial Advisory Board advises us on what employees look for in graduates and on employability-related skills within our courses.

The balance we create between theoretical and practical components in conservation offers you the opportunity to develop specialist and transferable skills on our degrees that open up diverse opportunities when you graduate.

As with many of our MSc graduates, you could go on to study for a PhD and enter a research career. You could also go on to a career in an applied ecology or conservation-related area.

Our dedicated employability and opportunity team will ensure that you're aware of events and opportunities to increase your employability.

Our Masters career development programme will also support you to explore career options, practice job interviews and understand the PhD application process.

You'll also have access to seminars and presentations from industry professionals (including our alumni) at faculty-led career events. We also have regular research seminars presented by leading academics from around the world on their specialist subjects.