Study
Be taught by people who are passionate about their subject and whose research and industry experience directly feeds into the courses they teach.
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Undergraduate courses
- Earth Sciences [MEarthSci]
- Environmental and Resource Geology [BSc]
- Environmental Science [BSc]
- Environmental Science with a Year Abroad [BSc]
- Environmental Science with Industrial Experience [BSc]
- Geochemistry [BSc]
- Geography and Geology [BSc]
- Geography and Geology with a Year Abroad [BSc]
- Geology [BSc]
- Geology with Planetary Science [BSc]
- Geology with Planetary Science [MEarthSci]
- Petroleum Engineering [BEng]
- Petroleum Engineering [MEng]
Postgraduate taught courses
Our research
Internationally excellent and world-leading research in field, laboratory and theoretical (computer modelling) investigations.
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Research groups
- Centre for Atmospheric Science
- Basin Studies and Petroleum Geoscience
- Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
- Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Fluids
- Structural and Petrological Geoscience
- Palaeontology
- Environmental Geochemistry and Geomicrobiology
Research centres
- Centre for Atmospheric Science
- Research Centre for Radwaste & Decommissioning
- Williamson Research Centre
Facilities
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Having a graduating student tell you that they feel they have truly developed intellectually and achieved more than they believed they could achieve is, for me, a measure of success.
Hugh Coe
Head of School
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Press releases
X-rays resurrect 200-year-old lost opera
Audiences can hear a 200-year-old opera by composer Luigi Cherubini in full for the first time in centuries after scientists used X-rays to reveal hidden notes.
X-rays reveal new picture of 'dinobird' plumage patterns
The first complete chemical analysis of feathers from Archaeopteryx, a famous fossil linking dinosaurs and birds, reveals that the feathers of this early bird were patterned – light in colour, with a dark edge and tip to the feather – rather than all black, as previously thought.
Ancient trapped water explains Earth’s first ice age
Tiny bubbles of water found in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth’s first ice age, say scientists.
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Highlights
Friendly cosmopolitan teaching and research community
We deliver vibrant excellent undergraduate and postgraduate teaching courses with free core fieldwork, a wide range of choice and high quality teaching provision
Hub of internationally leading research in the Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (ranked 7th of 41 Schools in this area in the UK at RAE 2008)
Over £10 M of current research grants from government, non-government organisations and industry
Strong links with industry particularly in the resource (including petroleum) and environmental (including waste management, contaminated land, nuclear decommissioning) sectors
Plugged into the breadth of research excellence at the ambitious University of Manchester (research of over 1000 staff over 53 Units of Assessment judged in RAE 2008 to be "world leading" or "internationally excellent"; 3rd of all UK Universities for research power in RAE 2008; ranked in the top 5 universities in the UK and in top 6 universities in Europe in 2011 by the Shanghai Jiang Tong Rankings)
Urban campus close to the centre of one of Europe's most exciting cities to live
+44 (0) 161 306 9360
