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| Location: | Cranfield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Suitable for graduates and professionals wishing to develop the expertise needed to solve water management problems in an integrated way. The part-time option will allow practitioners to extend their professional development within their current employment.
Takes you on to a wide range of exciting career possibilities within environmental regulation agencies, water companies, government ministries, environmental and engineering consultants, aid and emergency relief organisations. The course also provides an ideal grounding for research positions and PhD studentships.
You will be taught by a multidisciplinary team of staff with international experience of solving real life water management problems worldwide. The team includes ecologists, biologists, hydrologists, engineers, social scientists and economists. In addition to considerable research and consultancy experience in their specialist fields, most of the team are members of the Higher Education Academy.
Course description
Water is essential to life and is arguably our most precious resource. The ever-increasing demand for water - when harnessed to climate change, technological advances, new legislation and regulations - has focused attention on the need for a holistic approach to water management.
Our Water Management MSc will enable students to integrate and apply social, scientific and engineering skills to the sustainable management of water in natural, semi-natural and man-made environments.
Students select one of three specialised options:
* Community Water and Sanitation
* Environmental Water Management
* Global Water Policy and Management
On completion, graduates have a broader network of global contacts, increased opportunities for individual specialism in their chosen career, and the capability to make an immediate and real contribution to improved water management. Cranfield water management graduates are highly sought after by employers.
The MSc, PgDip and PgCert programmes have been accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), recognising that those completing the course have the skills, knowledge, awareness and confidence to find relevant and challenging employment and develop exciting careers.
Students benefit from facilities including our soil and water laboratories, hydraulics laboratory, soil erosion research laboratory, groundwater training facility, water quality laboratory and field irrigation laboratory.
The course comprises eight assessed modules, a group project and an individual project. The modules provide the `tools´ required for the group and individual projects.
Students undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) complete the eight modules and the group projects associated with their chosen option. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students complete six modules selected from any of the options.
Contents
The course comprises eight assessedmodules, group projects and an individual project. The modules include lectures and tutorials, and are assessed through appropriate assignments. There is an emphasis on analysis of real problems, with practical field work to reinforce learning.
This provides the 'tools' required for the group and individual projects. The three elements of the course are assessed as follows.
Taught modules: 40%
Group project: 20%*
Individual project: 40%
*For part-time students the group projects may be replaced by individual work-based assignments with their employer organisation.
The full-time option is a one-year course that starts in October and finishes in September the following year. During that time we expect you to be studying for 45 weeks.
Taught modules
The taught element of the course comprises eight modules that depend on the option that you have chosen. Each module is allocated two weeks although in most cases the contact time (lectures, seminars and practicals) is confined to one of those two weeks. Each module is assessed by way of an in-module assessment which in total comprise 40% of the overall degree mark. Typical types of in-module assessment include practical assignments, essays, and design projects.
Group projects
Each option has eight weeks of Group Projects that combines practical and professional skills training. The Group Projects account for 20% of the marks for the MSc.
Personal research project
The personal research project accounts for the remainder of the marks for the degree with 35% allocated to the thesis and 5% for an oral presentation. The research project is mostly carried out between May and August.
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 such as engineering, agriculture, environmental science or physical geography. Other relevant qualifications, together with considerable experience, may be considered.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | High School diploma |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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