Hydrology and Water Management MSc
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
Our Hydrology and Water Management MSc provides you with the opportunity to understand issues and challenges. Taught by leaders in their field, you'll learn:
You'll develop technical skills built on the latest science. You'll also broaden your understanding of policy and practice. This will be relevant to developing a professional career in the water industry.
Our MSc is for both practising professionals and graduates in subjects such as:
The needs of industry and government policy and our strong industrial engagement help shape our degree programmes. You'll gain from this engagement through:
Our graduates are in high demand. Particularly in consultancies and regulatory bodies in the UK and worldwide. You'll graduate with enhanced skills and knowledge, preparing you for a wide range of career opportunities.
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Program Outline
What you'll learn
The course provides an advanced knowledge and understanding of:
These provide the basis for development of skills and experience in areas including:
Most of our students undertake the full set of standard compulsory water modules. You also choose one optional module. This provides a coherent integrated educational experience. You may also be able to select modules from other MSc courses (with the agreement of the Degree Programme Director).
This MSc programme is closely aligned with its partner course Hydrogeology and Water Management. This MSc provides more focus on groundwater as a specialism.
The taught modules during Semester 1 are identical in the two MScs. You'll have the opportunity to change course after starting the programme if you decide you would like to follow this speciality.
Modules
You will study modules on this course. A module is a unit of a course with its own approved aims and outcomes and assessment methods.
Course content changes
Module information is intended to provide an example of what you will study.
Our teaching is informed by research. Course content changes periodically to reflect developments in the discipline, the requirements of external bodies and partners, and student feedback.
Full details of the modules on offer will be published through the Programme Regulations and Specifications ahead of each academic year. This usually happens in May.
Optional modules availability
Some courses have optional modules. Student demand for optional modules may affect availability.
To find out more please see our terms and conditions.
Hydrology and Water Management MSc modules
| Compulsory Modules | Credits |
|---|---|
| Quantitative Methods for Engineering | 10 |
| Integrated River Basin Management | 10 |
| Climate Change: Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation | 10 |
| Groundwater Modelling | 10 |
| Modelling and Forecasting of Floods | 10 |
| Water Management: Issues and Challenges | 10 |
| Hydrosystems Processes and Data Analysis | 20 |
| Hydrosystems Modelling and Management | 20 |
| MSc Project and Dissertation in Water Resources | 60 |
| Geographic Information Systems | 10 |
| Optional Modules | Credits |
|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering for the Global South | 10 |
| Groundwater Assessment | 10 |
| Computational Hydraulics | 10 |
