Program Overview

Kick start and enhance your career prospects with our degree in Ecology with integrated year in industry. This course is engineered to give you the competitive edge in the environmental jobs market. It responds to employer expectations that you will have some relevant work / field experience before engaging in full time employment. Upon successful completion of this degree, you will have developed the knowledge, skills and an awareness that employers will want. Ecology focuses on the interactions between organisms and their environment. Knowledge of these interactions underpins our understanding of how wildlife will respond to current and future environmental threats, including pollution, climate change, invasive species and habitat destruction. Our mission is to train you the next generation that will respond to these issues, identifying solutions and conserving biodiversity into the future.  

Why study Ecology with Year in Industry at Aberystwyth?

• The syllabus includes an integrated year in industry in addition to identical content from the three-year sister course BSc Ecology (C180).
• The option to pursue paid or voluntary work.
• All students will receive guidance and advice from our Director for Employability on how you will find relevant work for a period of up to twelve months.
• You have the option to transfer to the three-year BSc Ecology C180 course if you do not find an opportunity that suits you.
• During your year in work experience, you will pay a discounted tuition fee of which the information can be found here.
• You will be taught and mentored by friendly and knowledgeable teaching staff that are also internationally recognised researchers in Ecology.
• Learn and Live in an exceptional environment of Cardigan Bay where you will be surrounded by a great diversity of beautiful environments, including marine, moorland, mountain, waterways, grassland and coast.
• Study in an internationally recognised centre of excellence and award-winning department- Queen’s anniversary prize for Higher and Further Education to name a few.
• The Ynys Hir RSPB reserve (as seen on Springwatch) and Dyfi National Nature reserve are on our doorstep.
• Snowdonia, Pembrokeshire and the Brecon Beacon National Parks are within driving distance.
• The Cambrian mountains as a backdrop and just a stone throw away from Cardigan Bay and its bottle-nose dolphins.