📖Program Curriculum

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The consists of a taught component and a laboratory or field-based research project in ecology and environmental biology

The emphasis is on research experience and training with 120 180 of credits devoted to project work You will carry out an extended research project chosen to reflect your own interests and the skills you wish to acquire For comparison Programmes provide a dissertation of 60 180 credits

Taught courses consist of core research skills and specialist options in a variety of ecological methods

The Programme also strongly benefits from research opportunities in terrestrial and aquatic ecology at the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE)

Find out more about funding at SCENE
A total of 180 credits are required with 20 credits from Semester 2 optional courses

Projects
MRES ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY LITERATURE REVIEW AND RESEARCH PLAN (Semester 1 and 2)
MRES ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECT (Summer)
Semester 1 core course
KEY RESEARCH SKILLS (40 Credits)
Semester 2 optional courses
ANIMAL ETHICS
ANIMAL LEGISLATION AND SOCIETAL ISSUES
ANIMAL WELFARE ASSESSMENT
BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS
BIOLOGY OF SUFFERING
CARE & ENRICHMENT OF CAPTIVE ANIMALS
CONSERVATION GENETICS
ECONOMIC TOOLS FOR CONSERVATION
GENETIC AND GENOMIC ASPECTS OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ECOLOGISTS
HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF CONSERVATION
INFECTIOUS DISEASE ECOLOGY AND THE DYNAMICS OF EMERGING DISEASE
INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN STATISTICS
INVERTEBRATE IDENTIFICATION
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PHYLODYNAMICS
MULTI SPECIES MODELS
PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION ECOLOGY
PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT
SINGLE SPECIES MODELS
SOCIETAL ASPECTS OF AMR
SPATIAL ECOLOGY
VERTEBRATE IDENTIFICATION
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🏠 Accommodation

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:
  • Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
  • Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it
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💰 Fees

Application Fee:

224 RMB

Tuition fee:

25,980 GBP per year

25,980 GBP in total

❓✅❌ Entry Requirements

You are not eligible to apply to this program because:

The minimum age is 18.

English fluency is required.
You need to be either:
- A native English speaker
- Studied in English at high school or a degree
- Have passed IELTS level 6.5 or TOEFL 95 or above.

Minimum education level: Bachelor's.

The program is competitive, you need to have a high grades of Average A, 70%, or a high GPA.

All students from all countries are eligible to apply to this program.

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Required Documents:

  • Passport
  • Graduation certificate
  • Passport size photo
  • Official transcript
  • Personal statement
  • English certificate (You can take the English test online)
  • Guarantor letter
  • 2 Recommendation letters

Preparing documents:

You can start your application now and send the application documents during your application. Some documents you can send later if you don’t have them right away. Some more info about preparing application documents is here

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Application process:

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The first steps are to choose the programs, pay the application fee and upload the application documents.

Once submitted to Global Admissions, we will review your application within 2-3 days and proceed to the university or ask you for further clarification

After it has been processed to the university you will receive your unique application ID from each university.

The university may contact you directly for further questions.

We will then follow up each week with the university for updates. As soon as there is any update we will let you know. If you have made other plans, decide to withdraw / change address at any time please let us know.

After you have been accepted you will receive your admissions letter electronically and asked to pay the non-refundable deposit to the university.

Once you have paid the deposit the university will issue you the admissions letter and visa form to your home country.

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