Geography with International Year

The Geography MSci with International Year program equips you to tackle global challenges like climate change and urbanisation, while gaining practical fieldwork experience and skills for careers in sustainability, consulting, and public policy. It extends your studies with elective modules, an additional dissertation, and a field course abroad. You will also have an opportunity to study at a global partner institution, offering flexibility to curate a personalised academic path, providing deeper insights and advanced career skills beyond standard BSc and BA frameworks.

Why Study Geography at Birmingham?

A flexible programme – in an interconnected world where natural and social environments overlap, it is important that you can choose modules across both human and physical geography to explore your subject area in detail. You’ll have a mixture of interests as a geographer and at Birmingham, you’ll have opportunity to explore them all.

Fieldwork – There's no better way to learn about natural and built environments than being in the great outdoors. Our fieldwork spans cities such as Rotterdam, Berlin, Lisbon and Tokyo, and exceptional landscapes in the Swiss Alps. Travel and accommodation for compulsory courses are fully covered so you can focus on the opportunities afforded to you with a variety of global experiences, led by experts in air pollution, weather, and global issues.

Skills fit for the future – learn how to use tools specific to Geography like geographical information systems (GIS), data analysis and statistics, as well as key transferable skills that employers are looking for worldwide, such as problem solving, communication, leadership and adaptability.

Accreditation – This programme has been accredited by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), which recognises best practice in geography teaching and learning.