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Environmental Management (E79) (Taught)

Course details
  • PgDip
  • 2 Years
  • Distance learning
  • November 2026
  • Postgraduate
Course location
Distance Learning
Awarded by:
The Open University

Course summary

If you’re interested in designing and participating in effective environmental management, this diploma is for you. It’s suitable for many contexts, from government, commerce and industry to voluntary, local and community organisations. You’ll consider the everyday concerns of environmental protection, natural resource management, and rapidly changing environmental legislation and policy, in global and local contexts – gaining the skills to unpack these issues and play an active, creative role in improving environmental performance. You’ll choose option modules from project management, environmental science, innovation management and systems thinking.

Key features of the course

  • Meet the challenges of environmental management in the context of sustainable development

  • Develop your ability to make informed decisions about environmental issues, whether at work, in your community or at home

  • Top up to the MSc in Environmental Management in just one more year

Modules

To gain this qualification, you need 120 credits. You'll study three compulsory 30-credit environmental management modules and choose 30 credits from a range of option modules.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
  • Water and Environmental Management, Chartered Institution of
  • Environmental Management and Assessment, Institute of

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

However, some option modules do have entry requirements. We’ll ask you to prove you meet them when you register for any of these modules:

Advance your independent learning (YXM830)

Although this qualification has no entry requirements, we recommend you have:

A UK honours degree (or equivalent) in a science or engineering discipline.
Minimum IELTS (International English Language Testing System) scores of:
Reading: 5.5
Writing: 5.5
Speaking: 5.5
Listening: 5.5
Overall: 6.0.

You’ll also need the skills and knowledge to:

Write technical essays and reports at a high level.
Carry out calculations using logarithms and the exponential function.
Analyse numerical data.
Understand and apply scientific principles in relation to chemical reactions, biological processes and energy conversion.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

As fees for individual modules can vary, the total cost you pay for your qualification depends on the modules you choose to study. For further information about fees, please refer to the course description on The Open University website.

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