This degree equips you with practical skills and knowledge in measuring, mapping, recording and managing information. You apply this knowledge to a range of areas, from urban and rural to coastal and the open sea.

Your studies will include outdoor and computer-based practical work and you'll learn a wide range of techniques, such as:

• engineering surveying
• 3D laser scanning
• mobile map-making
• programming

You'll also gain an in-depth understanding of geodesy, photogrammetry, cartography, GIS and hydrographic survey and computing.

You benefit from a combination of field trips, project work and industry visits. This ensures you graduate with the technical skills required to succeed in the surveying sector.

Graduates from our surveying, mapping and geographic information science degrees go on to work for a range organisations, including: 

• specialist land, air and offshore mapping companies
• central and local government agencies
• cartographic publishers
• suppliers of computer-based mapping technology and GIS
• utility companies
• civil engineering contractors
• oil exploration multinationals
• geophysical consultants