Environmental Science with Integrated Master's with Foundation Year

Foundation Year
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Environmental Science with Integrated Master's
Our Environmental Science MSci offers an advanced understanding of the natural environment and the impact of human activities on it. In this programme you will integrate interdisciplinary approaches from biology, chemistry, earth science and ecology to analyse environmental systems and address ecological challenges. The course also provides you with a deep understanding of environmental ethics and sustainable practices, helping you take an active role in protecting the environment.

Why choose this course?

• Geography and Environmental Sciences No.1 in the West Midlands for student satisfaction (Complete University Guide, 2026)

• Gain a master's-level qualification

• Develop advanced research expertise through an extended MSci project, building analytical, critical thinking and independent investigation skills

• Our 600-acre campus offers a fantastic natural environment to perform fieldwork

• Opportunities to acquire essential professional qualifications in field identification

Initial modules will provide you with a broad and varied grounding in environmental science. You will gain essential skills in fieldwork, evaluate some of society’s main environmental, ecological, and sustainability problems, examine the dynamic systems of Planet Earth, and explore sustainability in Staffordshire.
In your third year, you will have the opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of meaningful research on a topic that excites and challenges you. In the final year of the MSci, you will design and conduct an in-depth extended research project.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.