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Environmental Science at Hartpury University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

Hartpury University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Open days

23Nov
Undergraduate Open Day: Hartpury University
Undergraduate
18Jan
Undergraduate Open Day: Hartpury University
Undergraduate

Course summary

As an Environmental Scientist, you’ll become expert in the ways that Earth’s environments – the atmosphere, ocean and crust – shape opportunities for life on Earth. You’ll learn how current and emerging global challenges, such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, arise. We’ll prepare you to use your knowledge and skills as a graduate, defining and applying solutions for a sustainable future. You’ll take a hands-on, applied approach, making extensive use of our laboratories and 400ha estate, in fieldwork and in your own independent research project. We work closely with employers - particularly in our institutional specialisms of land management and agriculture – embedding work experience and real-world business briefs into your degree to boost your future career.   Hartpury has a great track record in providing a positive student experience. You’ll benefit from all the facilities of a University, in a specialist institution with smaller cohorts, where we can personalise your support and guidance.

Modules

Throughout the BSc Environmental Science degree you’ll gain:

  • Knowledge about the structure, processes and linkages of Earth’s physical environments, the way that these establish and distribute a variety of conditions for living things, both globally and locally, and the effects of disruption by natural and human agency.
  • Understanding of human attitudes, behaviours and priorities about the environment, and how these shape our actions to damage, protect or restore both living and non-living environments.
  • Skills in the concepts, science and technologies through which we assess, monitor, evaluate and effect beneficial change in the environment.
As you progress from the first to the final year, you’ll gain incredible opportunities to apply the topics you learn across both our own campus at Hartpury and on sites in some of the surrounding areas such as the Forest of Dean and the River Severn valley. The campus at Hartpury offers a hugely diverse range of environments including woodlands, lake and waterways, arable fields, and livestock pastures, all of which you will explore within the teaching on this degree. This practical experience will give you a strong basis to conduct your own individual research project in the final year. You’ll also receive increasing amounts of career-relevant input to your studies through live briefs and through case studies or guest lectures from professionals in relevant practice. In the second year you can take an embedded work-experience module; you can also elect to take a year-long work placement between your second and final year which could be taken anywhere in the world depending upon your own interests. Throughout your degree you’ll benefit from the guidance of your academic tutor, the University’s wider student support services and careers guidance.

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

International applicants

We have a strong global community, with students and staff from over 60 countries. Our dedicated International team will support you through every step of your university journey – from initial enquiry to enrolment and graduation. They’ll guide you through living and learning in the UK, making your application, visas, student finance, accommodation and much more. You’ll be welcomed to an International Orientation weekend, where they’ll arrange for you to be collected from your airport on arrival and support you to settle in to university life in your first term. As an international student, you’re guaranteed accommodation in your first year, see website for terms and conditions.

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

In addition to the above, we require a minimum of five GCSEs at grade 9-4 (A*-C), to include English and Maths. We will consider equivalencies including but not limited to functional skills level 2, Irish Ordinary level, National 5s, IB standard level. We will consider combinations of level three qualifications. A science for this programme is considered to be Biology, Physics or Chemistry. We welcome applications from individuals with equivalent, non-UK qualifications and mature students (over 21). We may interview as part of the application process. The minimum academic entry requirement for this programme is 80 UCAS tariff points, providing this is combined with relevant experience.

Student Outcomes

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76%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
95%
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The number of student respondents and response rates can be important in interpreting the data – it is important to note your experience may be different from theirs. This data will be based on the subject area rather than the specific course. Read more about this data on the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250 Year 1
EU £18150 Year 1
International £18150 Year 1

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

For full fee details including sandwich year, international tuition fees and additional costs relating to this programme please visit the course page on our website.

Sponsorship information

Studying a degree is a worthwhile investment, providing opportunities and experiences to help you to carve out a rewarding and successful future. We know that accessing funding, in the form of loans, grants, bursaries and scholarships, can make studying a degree possible for many students. Alongside government loans, Hartpury University and our partners offer a range of financial support packages to eligible students applying for our courses. Please visit our student finance page for more information on what’s on offer to help you with your study costs: http://www.hartpury.ac.uk/university/facilities/life-at-hartpury/finance/

Environmental Science at Hartpury University - UCAS