Geography (Human) 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/

Geography (Human) with Integrated Master’s

Our four-year Human Geography with Integrated Master's goes beyond a standard degree, embedding master's-level study into your undergraduate experience. Alongside hands-on training in GIS mapping, fieldwork, and data analysis, you'll develop the advanced research and analytical skills needed to pursue PhD study or specialist careers in the public, policy, and research sectors.

Why choose this course?

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

• Graduate with a master's-level qualification

• Develop advanced research expertise, analytical, critical thinking and independent investigation skills to enhance your employability

• Gain specialist employability skills through training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), fieldwork, and data analysis

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

Key topics explored on the course include globalisation, planning and health inequalities, alongside sustainability and environmental justice. Blending theoretical knowledge with practical skills, you will explore diverse research methods, master Geographic Information Systems (computer systems that produce connected visualisations of geospatial data), and put your learning into practice through fieldwork on and off our 600-acre campus.

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.

*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).