General information
- Faculty of Science
- Bellaterra Campus
- Duration: 5 courses - 345 credits
- Places: 30
- Admission mark: 7,118
- Price per credit: 18.46 Euros
- Language: Catalan, Spanish and English.
- Academic calendar
- Learning mode: Classroom-based learning.
Are you a field scientist and strong defender of the environment? These studies are aimed at providing future professionals with the skills needed to face the scientific, technological and academic challenges of human development and its effects on the Earth's system through a multidisciplinary, holistic approach and with a strong presence on the field. The objective is to use the planet's resources in a sustainable way to improve its inhabitants' living conditions.
This joint programme will allow you to graduate with two degrees: in Environmental Science and in Geology. This double degree lasts five years (345 ETCS credits) and combines specific subjects from each of the bachelor’s degrees. In your fifth year, you will be able to enrol in a specialisation by choosing 22 degree-specific optional credits: 12 from the Environmental Science study plan and 10 from the optional subjects offered in Geology. You will also enrol in two final project subjects, one in Environmental Science and one in Geology, worth 6 credits each. This double degree also contains many hours which are devoted to field and laboratory work and to the interpretation of geological maps.
External work placements are also available for students, and are voluntary in Environmental Science, but compulsory in Geology. There is also a double exchange programme available, in which students can stay at a variety of renowned universities abroad, to study both environmental science and geology.
Career options
Career options include working as environmental scientists or geologists, as well as jobs combining the two, and our graduates are particularly competent in the following areas:
- Prevention, analysis, control and treatment of pollution.
- Geotechnics applied to civil engineering and environmental planning.
- Development of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency:
- Managing protected natural areas
- Environmental impact assessment and auditing.
- Regional organisation and strategic planning.
- Restoration of polluted zones.
- Environmental and geological risk prevention
- Geological consultancy and environmental management.
- Exploration, exploitation and management of mineral, energy, water and forest resources.
- Management of waste collection points and waste recycling.
- Geological and geographic mapping.
- Teaching in secondary and higher education.
- Environmental and scientific education and communication.
- Mediation in environmental and geological conflicts.
- Research.