Postgraduate study
We teach and research topics of global environmental importance and tackle tough questions across natural and social sciences. We offer a wide range of PhD projects to students from the UK and overseas. We have opportunities funded by research councils, charities and industry and projects for self-funding students and those with scholarships from their home country.
We also offer an MSc by research and taught degrees.
For any questions or more information, email environment@york.ac.uk or find a specific contact.
Postgraduate taught courses
- MSc Environmental Economics and Environmental Management
- MSc Environmental Science and Management
- MSc Environmental Sustainability Education and Communication
- MSc Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management
- MSc Sustainability Science
- MA Sustainability Studies
- MSc Sustainable Business: Leadership, Innovation and Managment
- MSc Sustainable Business: Leadership, Innovation and Management (dual degree)
- MSc Data Science
Doctoral training programme
NERC DTP in Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE)
(with the Universities of York, Sheffield and Liverpool, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the Natural History Museum)
Research degrees
PhDs, MPhils and MScs by research that can be taken full-time or part-time.
PhD studentships
Opportunities for fully-funded PhDs:
Links with policymakers
Our postgraduate students benefit from our unique access to the Stockholm Environment Institute, an international environmental policy unit embedded in the Department.