Environment and Climate Change

This MSc programme is focused on the defining challenge of our time: our rapidly shifting environment. Through this programme, you will be equipped you with the scientific understanding, analytical and transferable skills and policy insight required to contribute to tackling climate and environmental change at local, national and international scales. You will develop a comprehensive understanding of long-term and contemporary climate change, including the methods used to reconstruct past and project future climate change. Additionally, you will learn the theory and develop practical expertise in environmental management, climate policy-making and environmental hazards. After completing this programme, you will be trained to contribute within and across research, policy and commercial spheres, having developed expertise in a range of topics including climate change, flooding, environmental pollution and biodiversity. Your programme is capped by a supervised research project that enables you to build on your specific knowledge and skill interests, with the option to design a project alongside an external stakeholder or business. The MSc in Environment and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary programme which will provide students with the knowledge, skills and tools to understand how the Earth’s environment has changed in the past, how it is changing now, and will in the future. The programme focuses on areas within the research expertise of the School of Environmental Sciences, including climate change, coastal environments, river and lake systems, carbon stocks and fluxes, ecosystems and biodiversity, and atmospheric and environmental pollution. The programmes emphasise training in field and laboratory-based environmental monitoring, modelling environmental systems, and in the analysis and interpretation of environmental data for research and environmental management. Graduates of the programme will have developed technical and research expertise, including the ski

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no component below 6.0

International students: Full-time place, per year - £30,000; Part-time: £14,150

UK students: Full-time place, per year - £14,000; Part-time: £6,250

UK/Home: Full-time place, per year - £14,000; Part-time: £6,250

International: Full-time place, per year - £30,000; Part-time: £14,150

28 September 2026

Rolling admissions - apply early

• Liverpool, United Kingdom