UCL Geography - funding options available

Studying geography provides an excellent all-round education, encompassing both humanities and sciences, that will provide you with key skills for your life and career. 

Students are taught by internationally recognised experts, ranked 7^th in the QS World Rankings by Subject in 2024, across the department’s specialist research areas:

• environmental change and biodiversity
• environmental modelling and observation
• past climates
• global urbanism
• culture and migration
• environment, politics and society
• geospatial analysis and computing

Key features and benefits

• Our interdisciplinary programmes offer the option to tailor your studies to suit your interests and career aspirations.
• Students will benefit from the expertise of our world-class researchers and due to the inter-disciplinary nature of our work, you can develop your knowledge across subjects, learning from academics not only in Geography but the wider UCL community as well.
• The department hosts annual careers events where alumni share their experience of post-graduation training and employment across the wide variety of opportunities available to geography graduates.
• Our graduates are highly sought after by employers in the public, private and charitable sectors across the UK and abroad.

Student view

“I was aware of the prestige of UCL prior to applying and was encouraged further by the number of external connections and research opportunities the Geography Department were offering. I really felt this was a great fit for both my circumstances, location and future career prospects.”

Ravina, Aquatic Conservation, Ecology & Restoration MSc

Courses

•  Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration MSc
• Climate Change MSc
• Conservation MSc
• Environmental Modelling MSc
• Environment, Politics and Society MSc
• Global Migration MSc
• Remote Sensing and Environmental Mapping MSc
• Social and Geographic Data Science MSc
• Urban Studies MSc

Shape the future with UCL Social and Historical Sciences

We are an intellectually diverse and world-leading Faculty, with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024 placing our social sciences 14th in the world and our arts and humanities disciplines 6th.

We offer over 60 specialist postgraduate programmes in a range of subjects, investigating the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that shape our world.

Alongside our programmes at UCL's historic campus in Bloomsbury, central London, we are delivering a range of exciting courses at UCL East, our pioneering new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in east London.

Cutting-edge research lies at the heart of the faculty’s work. We are first in the UK for research power in the social sciences (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Scholarships and funding options

Funding for Master's study can be limited, so most students piece together different funding sources to cover their costs. Search our funding page to find out about the loans and financial awards available to help support you.

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