School of GeoSciences

University of Edinburgh

Our world is facing many significant and complex challenges. Rising inequality and the mass displacement of people, urbanisation, unprecedented rates of climate and environmental change and associated extreme events, and finite natural resources all pose formidable challenges for the future. By studying with us you will be in an exceptional position to help make the future better. Spanning a wide range of physical and social sciences, and the humanities, we are internationally renowned for our approach to interdisciplinary research and teaching. Through our world-leading research, teaching, innovation and impact, we strive to solve real-world problems of local, national and international relevance. You will be uniquely placed to address local and global issues relating to inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature; cultural meanings; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; natural resources; and natural hazards, risk and resilience.

Why study at the School of GeoSciences?

We are one of the largest and most successful interdisciplinary groupings of geographers and geoscientists in the UK.

Our world-leading research, teaching, innovation and impact, strives to solve real-world problems of local, national and international relevance.

We are internationally renowned for our approach to interdisciplinary research and teaching.

15

courses

Edinburgh  United Kingdom

main campus

About the School of GeoSciences

At the School of GeoSciences we examine the interactions between the Earth’s geology, atmosphere, oceans and life, as well as considering our own role and impact on our planet.

The effect of these complex relationships is vitally important to our world’s future, which means the skills and knowledge you will develop as a postgraduate student here will put you in an exceptional position to help make that future better. Spanning the entire spectrum of the geosciences field, we offer opportunities that are increasingly interdisciplinary and international in focus.

We are the largest geoscience research group in the UK, with around 400 academics and researchers. The quality of our research is second to none: we were ranked top in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. We were also identified as having the greatest concentration of ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ researchers in the UK. We offer dedicated expertise across our core teaching areas of ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology and oceanography.

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Main campus

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Scotland

United Kingdom

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Geography (17) Environmental Sciences (13) Biological Sciences (4) Economics (10) Agriculture (1) Business & Management (5) Geology (18) Food Sciences (15) Engineering (12)