This five-year Mapping and Geospatial Data Science MSci Honours degree focuses on developing your practical, technical and professional skills and includes a placement year so that you graduate career ready with real-world working experience.

Our hands-on degree allows you to get used to working with industry-standard, state-of-the-art equipment to ensure you develop skills and knowledge of 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.

You will benefit from our strong links with local organisations in the industry and undertake field trips throughout your degree so that your professional skills are continually improving.

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