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Postgraduate Study at Swansea University
Swansea University spans two campuses situated in a stunning coastal location, making it a highly desirable place for students to study and conduct research since 1920.
From master’s degrees to PhD study, Swansea offers postgraduate programmes in a wide variety of subject areas which are informed by the latest developments in research and innovation.
The School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics
Based within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, students studying at the School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics will explore the intricacies of the remarkable natural world we live in, but also how delicate and how everything in our physical and social world is interconnected and can be enormously affected by human impact, social changes, and environmental shifts.
Swansea’s postgraduate course offering will develop graduates to become inspiring individuals, and to pursue fulfilling careers or research opportunities by gaining a deeper understanding of the vastness of the cosmos and quantum universe, or by navigating how to address the global challenges the world faces in an ever-changing world on an environmental, sociological and political level.
Why Choose Swansea?
Outstanding Facilities
Students at the School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics have access to a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. For example, biosciences students may experience using The R.V. Mary Anning, a £1.3 million purpose-built 18-metre catamaran-class survey vessel which can carry 26 passengers to conduct research activities in Swansea Bay and further afield. It has a globally unique visualisation centre that displays multi-dimensional information from animal tracking data.
Geography students can benefit from using a fifteen dual-processor workstations for Earth Observation, a 20-node multiprocessor Beowulf cluster, and the Department’s IBM ‘Blue Ice’ supercomputer, which is mainly used for climate and glaciological modelling.
Physics students can have access to equipment such as a low-energy positron beam with dedicated instrumentation for the study of positronium; continuous-wave and pulsed laser systems; scanning tunnelling electron and near-field optical microscopes; raman microscope; CPU parallel cluster; and the IBM-built ‘Blue C’ Super computer.
More about the facilities at the Faculty of Science and Engineering
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Funding – Scholarships & Bursaries
We understand that the cost of your studies is one of the most important factors when deciding on a postgraduate degree. Swansea offers a number of postgraduate scholarships and bursaries to help you fund your studies. For the most up-to-date information on funding opportunities, visit our website.
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