You focus on rural development and resource management, studying diverse topics from landscape management to social geographics, and from crop and livestock production to marketing. 

You'll visit various rural enterprises and sites throughout the course. These introduce you to a range of countryside professions and equip you with insight into the challenges faced by today's rural businesses. 

You can boost your employability and professional skills with an optional placement year in industry or the commercial sector. You also benefit from:

• access to our two University farms for hands-on experience
• training in key business skills to enhance your employability
• expertise at our Centre for Rural Economy, recipient of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2014

Graduates with an environmental science background find employment with conservation bodies such as Natural England, the Environment Agency, water companies, local government environmental health departments and other environmental protection agencies, undertaking roles as varied as environmental consultancy and environmental engineering.