Geography & Environmental Science

Explore and understand the factors influencing changes in our built and natural environments and consider responses to contemporary global challenges.

Examine our relationship with the natural environment and learn to understand and consider responses to the challenges of climate change, globalisation, urbanisation, development, and regeneration.

As part of your course, you’ll:


• Explore a range of contemporary issues within geography and environmental science, such as remote sensing, natural hazard management, energy and environmental governance, climate adaptation, GIS, and specialist technical field work



• Develop your understanding of the relationships between human activity and environmental change, and combine theories about the physical nature, characteristics, and environment of the world with human interactions



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We have an excellent network of employers who will be able to offer relevant experience to help you develop employability and personal skills to help prepare you for employment. We also offer a work placement module to hone your personal, professional, and employability skills.

Field trips, which include visits to sites of geographical and environmental importance, will help you gain an understanding of real-world issues and develop competence in practical research skills.

Why study the BSc Geography and Environmental Science course at Leeds Beckett University?
• Field trips that will help you gain an understanding of real-world issues and develop competence in practical research skills



• A work placement module that will hone your personal, professional, and employability skills



• A personal tutorial programme to look after your academic and pastoral needs



• An excellent network of employers who can offer relevant job experience

Curiosity needs thinkers, makers, and dreamers. It needs you!

Leeds Beckett believes that when unlike minds come together, incredible things happen. That’s why they don’t just teach; they collaborate, challenge and inspire.

Their courses are meticulously designed, combining practical experience through work placements with a vibrant location at the heart of one of the UK’s largest student communities. Boasting a top 10 UK ranking for both course quality and student life (Unicompare 2026) and a prestigious five-star QS rating, LBU sets the standard for excellence.

The university prioritises student wellbeing and stands among just seven universities nationwide to earn the University Mental Health Charter Award - proof of their unwavering commitment to advancing mental health and wellbeing.

All of this is why 98% of Leeds Beckett students and graduates would recommend studying at the university to a friend (Unicompare, 2024 reviews).