Land Management

Duration:

1 year full-time
2-5 years part-time 

Overview:

The Land Management MSc brings together our current scientific understanding of environmental processes with relevant social, economic and management subjects to provide an integrated approach to land use. This approach is then applied through the course at relevant scales including field, city, catchment, national and global.

A significant aspect of the course is the holistic approach, ensuring land is managed to deliver a full range of ecosystem services, including agriculture, forestry, biodiversity conservation, environmental protection, water management and heritage conservation, with due regard to social and economic consequences.

Graduates from this programme are highly sought-after by government agencies, businesses, consultancies, and non-government organisations.

Students select one of the following specialised options:

• Ecological Conservation
• Land Reclamation and Restoration
• Natural Resource Management
• Soil Management.

Each option provides direct training in a range of skills, such as geographical information management, project management, environmental impact assessment and critical analysis, which can aid the planning and implementation of land management projects.

Students also benefit from our state-of-the-art facilities, including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing laboratories, land resource planning laboratory, and soil and water laboratories.

Course Structure:

The course comprises eight assessed modules, a group project module, an integrated four-week group project, and an individual thesis project. The modules provide the tools required for the group and individual projects. 

Students undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) complete the eight taught modules and the two group projects. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students complete five taught modules, a project and a personal development portfolio.

Further details of the modules can be found within your chosen option.

Land Reclamation & Restoration Modules:

• GIS Fundamentals
• Principles of Sustainability
• Soil Erosion for Catchment Management
• Soil Plant Environment Science
• Ecological Restoration
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Remote Sensing
• Landscape Ecology

Natural Resource Management Modules:

• GIS Fundamentals
• Principles of Sustainability
• Soil Erosion for Catchment Management
• Soil Plant Environment Science
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Remote Sensing
• Landscape Ecology
• Land and Social Resource Survey and Planning

Soil Management Modules:

• GIS Fundamentals
• Principles of Sustainability
• Soil Erosion for Catchment Management
• Soil Plant Environment Science
• Agricultural and Environment Soil Engineering
• Environmental Policy
• Land Engineering and Water Management
• Soil Carbon, Nutrients and Contamination

Entry requirements:

Candidates must possess, or be expected to achieve, a 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. Other relevant qualifications, together with significant experience, may be considered.

English language requirements - our normal minimum requirement is a TOEFL score of 580 (paper test) or 237 (computer test), essay rating 4.5 or 92 (Internet test), all skills 19 or an IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 for writing, a TOEIC overall score of 830, or a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English grade C or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English grade C, although a number of our programmes require higher scores.

Funding:

Funding opportunities exist, including industrial sponsorship, School bursaries and a number of general external schemes.  For the majority of part-time students sponsorship is organised by their employers. We recommend you discuss this with your company in the first instance.

Please note that a formal offer of a place on this course must have been received before consideration can be given for funding. For further details please visit our website or contact our Enquiries Office on the details provided below.

New funding for soil management option - The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust Centenary Award - bursaries to pay up to 75% of course fees for selected post graduate students in agriculture (Masters or PhD)*

The closing date for applications relating to courses starting Autumn 2012 is 30th April 2012.

Want to find out more?

Contact our Enquiries Office for further details on all the courses we offer by either email: appliedsciences@cranfield.ac.uk or phone +44 (0)1234 758008. You can also visit our website.

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