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Land Management – (M.Sc.)
Cranfield University
School of Applied Sciences| Location: | Cranfield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Cranfield University
Suitable for graduates with a science, geography or engineering background or professionals with appropriate experience in environmental or related technical background. The part-time option will allow practitioners to enhance their professional development within their current employment.
Takes you on to a wide range of career paths, including opportunities with private environmental companies, central government, local authorities, statutory agencies and non-government organisations, development agencies, or research organisations.
You will be taught by a wide range of enthusiastic experts from the academic staff at Cranfield and from industry. To ensure the programme is aligned to industry needs, the course is directed by its own Industrial Advisory Committee.
Course description
The Land Management MSc brings together our current scientific understanding of environmental processes with relevant social, economic and management subjects to provide an integrated approach to land use. This approach is then applied through the course at relevant scales including field, city, catchment, national and global.
A significant aspect of the course is the holistic approach, ensuring land is managed to deliver a full range of ecosystem services, including agriculture, forestry, biodiversity conservation, environmental protection, water management and heritage conservation, with due regard to social and economic consequences.
Graduates from this programme are highly sought-after by government agencies, businesses, consultancies, and non-government organisations.
Students select one of the following specialised options:
* Ecological Conservation
* Land Reclamation and Restoration
* Natural Resourse Management
* Soil Management
Each option provides direct training in a range of skills, such as geographical information management, project management, environmental impact assessment and critical analysis, which can aid the planning and implementation of land management projects.
Students also benefit from our state-of-the-art facilities, including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing laboratories, land resource planning laboratory, and soil and water laboratories.
The course comprises eight assessed modules, a group project and an individual thesis project. The modules provide the tools required for the group and individual projects.
Students undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) complete the eight taught modules and the two group projects. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students complete five taught modules, a project and a personal development portfolio.
Contents
The course comprises eight taught modules, two group project modules, an integrated group project, and an individual thesis project. The taught modules include lectures, practicals and tutorials, which are partially assessed through written and oral assignments. The group project modules involve working on a case study of direct relevance to the chosen option and producing a consultancy style report. The emphasis is on analysis of problems in a real-life situation. The learning outcomes of the taught modules and the group project modules are also assessed in two integrating exams.
The modules provide the 'tools' required for the student to undertake the project work and the individual thesis project. The four elements of the course are assessed as follows:
Taught modules: 40%
Group project modules: 10%
Integrated group project: 40%
Individual thesis project: 10%
*For part-time students a dissertation can replace the integrated group project.
The full-time course is of 12 months' duration. The modular format of the taught element permits a high degree of flexibility of attendance at Cranfield for part-time students.
Part-time
Part-time programmes are structured in a similar way to the full-time programme and comprise eight one-week assessed modules, a group project (or dissertation), and an individual project, which results in the production of a thesis. Part-time students are normally expected to complete their MSc in two to three years. The modular nature of the programmes allows students a degree of flexibility in the number and order of modules completed each year. Students may commence the course at any time during the year.
Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip)
Delivered and assessed at Masters level, the PgDip represents the taught element of the associated MSc. Students are expected to complete eight modules and a group project.
Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert)
Delivered and assessed at Masters level, the PgCert comprises a subset of the syllabus for the taught element of the associated MSc/PgDip course. Students are expected to complete six modules.
Advanced Professional Master of Technology (MTech)
The innovative MTech programme is unique to Cranfield. It combines taught course MSc study, company-based research, professional development and industrial experience. The total study period is two years and offers teaching and research to develop effective academic expertise as well as directly relevant industrial research experience to progress your career in your chosen sector.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Candidates must possess, or be expected to achieve, a 1st or 2nd class UK honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. Other relevant qualifications, together with considerable experience, may be considered.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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