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Postgraduate study that fits around your life
Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, explore a passion, change direction or take the next step in your career, postgraduate study at Swansea University can help you get there. But it shouldn't mean putting the rest of your life on hold.
From master’s degrees to PhD study, Swansea offers 150+ postgraduate programmes in a wide variety of subject areas which are informed by the latest developments in research and innovation. Some of our courses are flexible with part-time and distance learning options to fit around real lives and real ambitions.
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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.
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Swansea University – Where Bright Futures Begin
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.
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Funding opportunities
Investing in your future is a big decision. That's why Swansea University offers a range of scholarships, bursaries and funding opportunities to help make postgraduate study more accessible. UK/settled EU students can also access Postgraduate Government Funding — paid directly to you to help with fees and living costs.
Explore the latest funding options and discover what support may be available to help make your postgraduate ambitions a reality.
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Discover postgraduate study that fits around your life. Some of our programmes have flexible part-time or distance learning options.
Take the next step
You don't need to have everything figured out today. Sometimes the first step is simply exploring what's possible. Find the course that's right for you, explore your funding options and see where postgraduate study at Swansea University could take you.
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