Environmental Science and Sustainability with Foundation Year

This is a future-focused course, specially built to equip you with the applied skills to help mitigate today’s environmental issues and identify those which may emerge in the future This is also an interdisciplinary course, enabling you to specialise in a specific area to suit your career ambitions or study a range of topics for a broad knowledge-base The programme reflects an outside-in approach, embedding issues around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Biodiversity Framework and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) 30 Year Plan for Biodiversity Learn from an expert teaching team of active researchers, investigating topics such as climate change, marine ecosystems, environmental degradation, ecosystem services, urban sustainability and biodiversity conservation In your final year, choose to complete an Independent Study (dissertation) or an Industrial Project where you can work in industry on a live brief to help solve a real problem This course can be studied with or without an Industrial Placement Year

IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

International students: £17,500 per year

UK students: £9,535 per year

UK/Home: £9,535 per year

International: £17,500 per year

September 2026

UCAS deadline (equal consideration); UCAS Extra: from late February; Clearing: from July 2026

• Derby (Kedleston Road), United Kingdom