Course summary
Develop your career as a highly sought after environmental engineer. Suitable for graduates in engineering, science, and geography, the Environmental Engineering MSc will help you enhance your career by specialising in environmental engineering studies, involving the application of scientific and engineering principles to protect and improve the environment. Accredited by CIWEM and IAgrE, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to solve a wide range of environmental engineering challenges and make a real difference to the planet, - including municipal and toxic waste management and disposal, process emissions, contaminated land and water, waste disposal, energy, and resource recovery. Cranfield offers a unique, postgraduate-only environment where you will learn from a teaching team with extensive experience of solving real-world environmental challenges. Who is it for? This environmental engineering course is designed for science, engineering, and geography graduates who are passionate about the protection and improvement of environmental quality alongside enhancing the quality of human life. We also welcome graduates currently in employment who are keen to gain further qualifications or to pursue a career change, or individuals with other qualifications and considerable relevant experience. During the environmental engineering masters, you will learn principles of environmental improvements, including the protection of environmental quality at both local, landscape and global scales. Why this course? A masters in environmental engineering course will equip you with the knowledge and skills focusing on innovative approaches and technologies to solve a wide range of future sustainability challenges to fulfil sustainable development goals. The course covers municipal and hazardous waste management, process emissions control, contaminated land, water, wastewater, and waste disposal. The programme also addresses energy and resource recovery from waste materials.
- Study a course with accreditation by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), and the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE).
- Benefit from Cranfield’s applied focus by working on real-world problems faced in industry during your studies.
- Participate in individual and group projects focused on your personal interests and career aspirations.
- Learn from lecturers with extensive, current experience of working with industry on solving real-world environmental challenges.
- Technical modules incorporate a range of industry relevant topics, including Pollution Prevention and Remediation Technologies and Land Engineering Principles.
- Management modules cover essential topics such as Waste Management in a Circular Economy and Environmental Risks: Hazard, Assessment and Management.
Assessment method
Taught modules, group project (dissertation for part-time students), individual project.
How to apply
International applicants
Cranfield University welcomes applications from students from all over the world for our postgraduate programmes.
Entry requirements
We welcome applications from talented individuals of all backgrounds and each application is considered on its individual merit. Usually applicants must hold: A UK lower second-class (2:2) undergraduate degree with honours, as a minimum, or equivalent international qualification. Ideally applicants will have studied in a relevant engineering or science-based discipline.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Channel Islands | £25955 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £25955 | Whole course |
| England | £11895 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £11895 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £11895 | Whole course |
| Wales | £11895 | Whole course |
| EU | £25955 | Whole course |
| International | £25955 | Whole 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
Domicile: *This course has an annual registration fee and a fee per module. The annual registration fee is £1,765 and this amount is invoiced annually. The fee for taught modules is £1,445 per 10 credits, invoiced on attendance. Modules will usually be worth 5, 10, 20, or 30 credits, with the module fee for each calculated accordingly.
International: *Fees can be paid in full up front, or in equal annual instalments. Students who complete their course before the initial end date will be invoiced the outstanding fee balance and must pay in full prior to graduation.
Provider information
Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedford
MK43 0AL