Geography - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Throughout the  Geography - Placement Year (Hons)  course from Lancaster University you'll develop the skills and knowledge needed to help you advance professionally in a range of sectors, including but not limited to energy, food and agriculture, construction and housing, hazard mitigation, environmental consultancy, local and national government, urban planning and landscape architecture, geospatial analysis, and emergency planning. Explore the full range of human and environmental issues tackled by modern geographers, with an emphasis on natural world.

In addition to subject knowledge and field experience, you will gain essential communication and geographic information systems skills. You will become familiar with data generation through qualitative techniques, as well as data handling, environmental sampling, and analysis.

Career opportunities:

Geography helps us to understand the world around us, from the study of cultures and people, to the processes going on beneath our feet that shape the landscapes we live in. A degree in geography will help you get to grips with the many challenges we face with a growing population and an increasingly precarious climate situation by providing you with the opportunity to tackle a wide variety of complex issues. With such a diverse curriculum of topics, our geography graduates go on to work in a diverse range of positions such as Planning Officers, Environmental Consultants, Landscape Architects, Geospatial Analyst, Hydrologist, Emergency Planning and many more. Geographers are also well placed to secure roles and opportunities in sectors that might not be obvious such as marketing and sales, teaching, travel and tourism, and commercial business. This is down to your transferable skills in communication, software competencies, project management and data analysis. Graduates from our courses are also well-paid, with the median salary of graduates from Lancaster Environment Centre being £26,500 15 months after graduation (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024).

Here are just some of the roles that our BSc and MSci Geography students have progressed into upon graduating:

• Flood Resilience Analyst – JBA Consulting
• Research Assistant – Heriot-Watt University
• Biodiversity Policy Consultant – Holcim
• Graduate Flood Risk Analyst – JBA Consulting
• Business Analyst (Water Resources) United Utilities
• Permitting Support Officer – South West Water
• JIS and Flood Mapping Specialist – JBA Risk Management
• Water Service Deliver Operations Graduate – Yorkshire Water
• PhD Candidate – University of Leeds
• Graduate Catchment Scientist – Stantec
• Graduate Modeller – RPS Group PLC
• Geospatial Analyst – UK Government

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills.