Environmental Engineering

Develop your career as a highly sought after environmental engineer.
Suitable for graduates in engineering, science, and geography, the Environmental Engineering MSc will help you enhance your career by specialising in environmental engineering studies, involving the application of scientific and engineering principles to protect and improve the environment. Accredited by CIWEM and IAgrE, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to solve a wide range of environmental engineering challenges and make a real difference to the planet, - including municipal and toxic waste management and disposal, process emissions, contaminated land and water, waste disposal, energy, and resource recovery. Cranfield offers a unique, postgraduate-only environment where you will learn from a teaching team with extensive experience of solving real-world environmental challenges.

Who is it for?
This environmental engineering course is designed for science, engineering, and geography graduates who are passionate about the protection and improvement of environmental quality alongside enhancing the quality of human life.

We also welcome graduates currently in employment who are keen to gain further qualifications or to pursue a career change, or individuals with other qualifications and considerable relevant experience.

During the environmental engineering masters, you will learn principles of environmental improvements, including the protection of environmental quality at both local, landscape and global scales.

Why this course?
A masters in environmental engineering course will equip you with the knowledge and skills focusing on innovative approaches and technologies to solve a wide range of future sustainability challenges to fulfil sustainable development goals. The course covers municipal and hazardous waste management, process emissions control, contaminated land, water, wastewater, and waste disposal. The programme also addresses energy and resource recovery from waste materials.

- Study a course with accreditation by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), and the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE).

- Benefit from Cranfield’s applied focus by working on real-world problems faced in industry during your studies.

- Participate in individual and group projects focused on your personal interests and career aspirations.

- Learn from lecturers with extensive, current experience of working with industry on solving real-world environmental challenges.

- Technical modules incorporate a range of industry relevant topics, including Pollution Prevention and Remediation Technologies and Land Engineering Principles.

- Management modules cover essential topics such as Waste Management in a Circular Economy and Environmental Risks: Hazard, Assessment and Management.