Welcome
The School of Environmental Sciences is based at the Coleraine campus and is one of the largest of its kind in Britain and Ireland, with over 350 full-time undergraduate students, 250 postgraduate students and 40 academic, technical and administrative staff.
Particular strengths in the School are the development of interdisciplinary taught and research programmes that integrate the environmental, earth and marine sciences with human geography and the use of spatial analysis to investigate relationships between environment and society.
Teaching quality
Teaching in the School was rated as ‘excellent’ in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment Exercise conducted by the Higher Education and Funding Council, and has consistently been included as one of the top ten of its kind in the UK in independent league tables published by national newspapers. We were also recently commended by the Quality Assurance Agency’s Institutional Audit for the quality of our teaching and management of the learning experience.
Research quality
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) 90% of our research was determined to be world leading, internationally excellent, or internationally recognised in terms of its originality, significance, and rigour.
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