Sustainable Land and Business Management BSc Honours

Course overview

Your degree integrates elements from a range of subjects such as geography, business and estate management, ecology, law, agriculture, economics, and wildlife conservation and management. Topics include:

• rural development
• environmental and business management
• sustainability
• agriculture and land management

Newcastle is an ideal place to study, combining a city-centre university with access to fantastic countryside for fieldwork.

You can boost your employability and professional skills with an optional placement year in the industry or the commercial sector. You also benefit from:

• access to our two University farms for hands-on experience
• expertise at our Centre for Rural Economy, recipient of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2014

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Your future

Our graduates have found jobs in a range of sectors. These include national parks, public bodies, UK wildlife groups, surveyors, and land agents.

Organisations include:

• Natural England
• Met Office
• National Trust
• British Horse Society
• Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Savills
• Brown and Co.
• Galbraiths
• GSC Grays
• Defra

Our graduate careers include:

• chartered surveyors
• rights of way officers
• members of local conservation teams
• agricultural and environmental consultants
• environmental engineers
• national Park rangers
• sustainability officers/advisors
• countryside officers
• estate managers
• environmental educators

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