Conservation and Biodiversity – (M.Sc.)

Location

Cornwall Campus

Taught by internationally recognised experts, this programme covers both fundamental and applied aspects of the subject with the flexibility to pursue those areas of most relevance for your professional development. Taught at Exeter's Cornwall Campus in new buildings with state-of-the-art facilities, this MSc contains a significant research component and is a popular choice.

Within modules there is considerable scope for you to choose the topics you wish to pursue. Integral to the whole programme will be extensive liaison with conservationists from a wide range of collaborating governmental and non-governmental organisations such as the Marine Conservation Society, Natural England and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Key individuals from some of these organisations contribute to classes and field visits and a number of our project students will be placed with such organisations.

A special feature of the programme is the African field trip which includes visits to some of Africa’s largest and most important game reserves, as well as an introduction to some of the day-to-day problems faced by conservation biologists in developing nations. Travel and subsistence costs for this part of the programme are included in the programme fee.

Within one-year of graduation, eighty-percent of graduates from the programme can expect to be employed in careers such as ecological consultancy, conservation work within government in UK and overseas, NGO conservation in the UK and overseas and fully funded PhD positions in ecology and conservation.