Geography with Business Management with Integrated Master's

Our Integrated Master's in Geography with Business Management provides the advanced understanding and skills to respond to the real-world challenges shaping the planet. You'll explore the complex links between the global economy and the environment, developing practical skills in GIS mapping, fieldwork, and data analysis. Graduating with high-level research, strategic, and analytical abilities, you'll be prepared for PhD study or careers in corporate sustainability, planning, and environmental consulting.

Why choose this course?

• Geography ranked Top 5 in England (NSS 2025, broad-based universities)*

• Gain a master's-level qualification

• Study alongside innovative businesses and benefit from Keele Business School’s strong industry connections

• Build high-level employability skills through training in spatial analysis tools, fieldwork, and data analysis

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

Our Geography with Business Management MSci equips you with the master's-level tools to tackle real-world challenges, connecting environmental understanding with business thinking. By exploring the full breadth of human, physical, and environmental geography alongside core business topics, you'll gain a versatile skillset for a rapidly changing world.

Core business topics including finance, operations, and strategic management, will build your knowledge to analyse business environments, make informed decisions, and drive organisational success.

A strong emphasis is placed on environmental geography and sustainability, ensuring you leave with the awareness that today's employers increasingly demand. Alongside this, you'll build key technical skills including Geographical Information Systems (GIS), critical thinking, spatial analysis, and data interpretation.

A major part of the curriculum is the practical application of geography. You will gain professional skills using digital, statistical and laboratory-based methods for collecting and analysing geographical data in our state-of-the-art Central Science Labs. Through different field courses in the local area, across the UK and optional international activities, you’ll gain hands-on experience in applying these techniques and develop key technical skills using specialist software such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing. Plus, Keele’s 600-acre campus serves as a ‘living laboratory’, offering opportunities to study geographical features, ecosystems, and sustainability initiatives right on our doorstep, further preparing you to succeed in your future career.

*We have compared the positivity ratings of all participating UK institutions using the NSS 2025 sector data to determine Keele's position relative to other broad-based universities (i.e. excluding specialist institutions and further education colleges).

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.