Geography BA with a Year in Industry

At the interface of the human and the physical environments, geography is an integrative discipline that fosters a broad perspective on today’s world and equips you with a variety of transferable and employable skills. The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at Leicester provides a stimulating, supportive and friendly environment in which to study contemporary geography.

Our degrees allow you to specialise in physical geography or human geography – or to combine topics that bridge the science/social science interface. Throughout your degree there will be an emphasis on gaining practical skills and putting them to use in a critical manner in exciting fieldwork locations in the UK and around the world. You will receive all of the training needed to carry out independent research in a range of contexts. We encourage and train our students to be both critical and creative in their research approaches and methods.

If you choose to study for the Geography BA your work will emphasise the social science aspects of geography but will retain options to cover some physical sciences and overlapping themes, such as digital and environmental geographies. Most of your degree will cover human geography including: migration and how this shapes us and the places where we live, environmental governance and justice, gentrification, sustainability, energy and food security, and critical development geographies.

In Year 1 you will also study physical geography. If this appeals to you (and your grades are sufficient), you can transfer in Year 2 to the BSc degree, which is more focused on the scientific aspects of the subject.

What's the difference?
The BA and BSc in Geography each cover both Human Geography (social science; people and places) and Physical Geography (natural science; Earth and environment)

The BA concentrates more on Human, with a bit of Physical
The BSc concentrates more on Physical, with a bit of Human