Environment and Sustainable Development MSc
London, Bloomsbury
This is the programme information for 2025 entry
The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc addresses the most pressing socio-environmental challenges in the context of climate change and uncertainty. Focusing on the urban and peri-urban areas of the Global South, our course develops the knowledge, skills and capacities of professionals to become ethical, impactful and reflexive change makers who can challenge mainstream approaches to development, strengthen strategic pathways for environmental justice and long-term sustainability.
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Entry requirements
The normal minimum qualifications are an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard; and a demonstrated interest in the subject matter of the programme. A minimum of six months work experience is also recommended. Candidates who do not meet the above requirements may be considered if they are able to demonstrate substantial relevant senior-level professional experience and an ability to engage academically with the subject matter of the programme.
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The English language level for this programme is: Level 2
UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level.
Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.
Equivalent qualifications
Country-specific information, including details of when UCL representatives are visiting your part of the world, can be obtained from the International Students website.
International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.
About this degree
Gain experience in sustainable development
Faced with the most severe environmental and existential crises in human history, which are marked by unprecedented degradation, displacements, disasters and the reproduction of inequalities, building the capacities to restore, enhance and safeguard our ecosystems to promote health, wellbeing and justice is vital. In response, the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc will equip you with the theoretical and practical skills to support pathways for long-term sustainability and environmental justice.
The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates feminist political ecology, environmental justice and systems thinking to foster inclusive sustainability in the Global South. This approach will give you an understanding of how environmental injustices manifest differently between and within contexts. This will build your confidence to move into your future career as a policy advisor, analyst, planner, programme coordinator, environmental specialist, researcher, project managers and/or sustainability consultant, amongst other possibilities.
At The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, we emphasise the importance of putting theory into practice. As an Environment and Sustainable Development MSc student you will have the opportunity to do so by participating in an overseas practice engagement. This will immerse you into real-life situations and help you gain experience in co-producing actionable knowledge with international partners and local communities to address pressing socio-environmental challenges. Moreover, you will also take part in Development Workshops where you will be confronted with complex processes for negotiating development strategies.
Explore your personal interests through optional modules
In addition to core learning on the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc and practical projects, you can develop your personal interests and choose from a wide range of optional modules from across the seven master’s courses at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, as well as from across The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and wider UCL.
Benefit from our global network of alumni and partners
Throughout your degree, you will engage with scholars and practitioners working in diverse capacities and fields to address urban challenges. You will also gain access to an active and growing alumni network, exchanging knowledge and skills with like-minded individuals from across the globe who are experienced in the realms of the environment and sustainable development.
We host skills development and careers networking sessions with UCL Careers services, connect you with partner organisations, alumni, development practitioners and academics through our overseas practice engagements and events at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. We also offer the opportunity to participate in our dissertation fellowship scheme where you can partner with reputable NGOs and development consultancies to produce a dissertation. These opportunities have been key for many students to secure research collaborations, internships, and employment.
By the end of the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc, you will:
- Be able to identify the critical relations between development planning and environmental challenges across time and space in a rapidly urbanising Global South;
- Be able to advance a progressive environmental agenda in a way that enhances collective capacities to act and challenges climate colonialism and environmental injustice;
- Develop as a reflexive and ethical professional in the field of sustainable development with key skills in critical thinking, teamwork, project management and impactful communication with stakeholders;
- Have access to an expanding international network of development practitioners with a shared vision and mission for justice and sustainability.
Who this course is for
The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc has a thriving international community of ethical and impactful development planners and practitioners coming from a background in planning, geography, natural sciences, engineering, anthropology, economics, politics, communication, and architecture, among others. Their diverse backgrounds enrich the teaching and learning experience and fosters a creative and multidisciplinary working environment key to address transformative planning of our cities.
We aim to grow this community by welcoming applicants with at least six months relevant working experience, who are interested in urban contexts of the Global South and want to expand your skillsets to advance progressive environmental agendas. New entrants to the environment and sustainable development field are also welcome, provided you demonstrate a genuine passion for this line of work.
What this course will give you
UCL has been ranked ninth best university in the world for the second year in a row, marking UCL’s 13th year among the top 10 universities worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2025), and is situated within London, the best student city in the world (QS Best Student Cities Ranking 2025). Across the university, UCL’s students and faculty are tackling grand challenges, ranging from climate change to justice and equality.
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit’s postgraduate courses are supported by international agencies, and national and provincial governments, and the Unit sits within The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment, which is ranked #1 in the world for Architecture and the Built Environment, and remains #1 in the UK for the tenth year in a row (QS World University Subject Rankings 2024).
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit is an international centre concerned with promoting sustainable forms of development, understanding rapid urbanisation and encouraging innovation in the policy, planning and management responses to the economic, social and environmental development of cities and regions, especially in urban centres of the Global South.
Through the core modules of the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc, you will be introduced to the politics of environmental change, gaining a deeper understanding of its relationship to development and urbanisation, who is affected and how, as well as the strategies to support environmental justice, resilience and sustainability. The practice module of the course works through Learning Alliances in different cities of the Global South. These alliances are research platforms that seek to co-produce actionable knowledge for transformative change. These platforms bring together a great diversity of learners, including international students, overseas academic institutions, governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as and civil society groups, working for pro-poor development and more symbiotic and reciprocal human and non-human life interactions.
You can choose from a range of optional modules that will impart vital knowledge for tackling the planetary crisis which includes adapting cities to climate change, enhancing food security/sovereignty, promoting inclusive environmental governance, delivering sustainable infrastructure, including urban water and sanitation. You can also choose to study optional modules from across wider UCL.
Ultimately, by joining our course, you will get the unique opportunity to collaborate with and learn from these collectives, providing you with strong theoretical foundations and real-life practical experience to make a difference to the way we plan our cities.
The foundation of your career
94% of graduates from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit were in work or further study 15 months after graduation and are working in 52 countries around the world (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017-21).
The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc draws strong connections to professional networks through our teaching and research activities, including our overseas practice engagements and involvement in ongoing research projects led by academics of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit.
Our students on the course are in demand in a variety of sectors around the world where they go on to influence environmental policy and planning. Many have taken up key positions as policy advisors, analysts, planners, programme coordinators, environmental specialists, researchers, project managers and sustainability consultants.
Examples of organisations where our graduates have been employed in the public sector include FCDO; DEFRA; Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (Dubai); Ministry of Environment (Sri Lanka); Ministerio das Cidades (Brazil); International agencies and NGOs; UNEP; UNDP; UN-Habitat; ICLEI; GIZ (former GTZ); Save the Children; WWF; C40 Cities; World Business Council for Sustainable Development; Climate Action Network International; Inter-American Development Bank; Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (Delhi); Development Action Group (Cape Town); Think tanks, academic and research organisations; Stockholm Environment Institute; Resources for Development Center; WaterWise; The Arab Academy for Science; European Urban Knowledge Network; The New School, United Nations University (New York).
Examples of private companies that employ out graduates are Carbon Trust; ARUP; Happold Consulting; EcoSecurities; Bloomberg New Energy Finance; BioRegional.
Our course also inspires graduates of the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc to pursue further research at PhD level.
Alumni testimonials
“Soon after completing my master's degree, I started a job in Germany (based in beautiful Hamburg) where I led a newly founded development consulting firm. There we implemented development projects, mostly funded by development banks or government agencies (eg USAID, GIZ, Global Center on Adaptation, KfW). In one of our most impactful projects, I assisted the Angola Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment in reducing the environmental and social risks of medical waste.” - Filipe Garcia, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Environment and Sustainable Development MSc graduate
"I was truly thrilled to find the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc which perfectly combined all of my interests (people, cities of the Global South, participatory methods, sustainability and development planning). It was the only master's course I ever applied to. I didn’t want to do a master's, I wanted to do this master's.” - Claudia Hitzeroth, Project Coordinator for Development Action Group (DAG) and Environment and Sustainable Development MSc graduate
Discover more alumni stories on The Bartlett Development Planning Unit website and in our Alumni Careers Stories series on YouTube ▶
Employability
To work within the public sector, international NGOs and agencies, think tanks, private companies and research organisations in the environment field, we will equip you with critical thinking, teamwork, project management, impactful communication and stakeholder management skills. This is achieved through core learning on the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc and department-level workshops that will integrate you with students of the other master’s courses at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit.
Boost your employability through core and optional modules
Our core and optional modules have been designed to encourage you to prepare balanced and critical analyses and arguments, be attentive to the particularities of place, and undertake well-supported diagnoses of the problems and opportunities in given development contexts, in ways that reframe strategic opportunities for socially and environmentally just action.
Moreover, in the overseas practice engagement, you will learn to operate in unfamiliar contexts of the Global south as well as work in diverse teams and develop skills including: managing diverse teams and situations, designing participatory research processes, formulating useful conceptual frameworks, analysing a range of information sources, sharpening presentation skills, formulating systematic and well-supported strategic proposals, aimed at responding to complex urban environmental change, as well as organisational and institutional development.
In an increasingly digital world, you will create outputs as part of the module ‘Environment and Sustainable Development in Practice’, that are published on The Bartlett Development Planning Unit website. These include reports, videos, policy briefs and Insights from Practice blog series. This means that when you complete your studies you will have a portfolio of publications to showcase to potential employers.
Explore current debates and issues in international development and planning
The Development Workshops will introduce you to the current debates and issues surrounding international development and planning. Through lectures, short films, and group discussions you will discuss key topics in urban development, urban equality, drawing on post- and de-colonial insights. Through a roleplay methodology in the Development Workshops, we will encourage you to mix with your peers across our seven master’s courses across The Bartlett Development Planning Unit and “step into the shoes” of a multiplicity of stakeholders involved in planning and decision-making. This will help you and your peers explore the intersecting identities and interests of development stakeholders whilst fostering empathy with their narratives, helping you acknowledge the complexity of real-world planning processes.
Partner with international development organisations in a dissertation fellowship
The Development Planning Dissertation Fellowship Scheme also offers important opportunities for professional development and, in some cases, has led to research collaborations, internships, and employment.
The advantages of participating in this scheme for your employability include:
- Your dissertation will be relevant to the current work of an international development organisation.
- You will have access to a member of staff and relevant data (but no fieldwork and/or primary data collection is expected).
- A summary of your dissertation will be published in an appropriate form (eg policy brief, blog post), subject to agreement over edits to ensure that high standards are maintained with respect to the work itself and any pertinent copyright or other issues.
- You will receive a letter stating that you have done this research with the partner organisation.
Networking
We will offer you opportunities to connect with alumni and academics of the course through:
- Our overseas practice engagements.
- Events open to all students at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (including our flagship Dialogues in Development lecture series, film screenings, and talks with academics about their research projects).
- Seminars and guest lectures with leading thinkers in development planning.
- Working, through dissertation fellowships, with academic staff involved in research projects, consultancy and development practice, influencing global debates on development such as UNFCCC negotiations, Sustainable Development Goals and UN Habitat III agenda.
- Our digital Alumni Networking Platform where you can discover the international reach of our alumni community on a map and connect with individuals by year of graduation, course of study and by city.
In addition to the above and to the core UCL Careers provision, as a student at The Bartlett you will have access to a mix of faculty-wide and department-specific support and activities to bolster your career development and develop your networking skills to successfully navigate the job markets. Open across the Faculty, this includes a programme of lively industry panel discussions and interactive workshops, spotlighting the key sectors graduates typically venture into such as construction, consultancy, commercial property and urban planning and development.
Additionally, The Bartlett’s Building a Better Future Consultancy Project will give you a unique opportunity to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to tackle a real world challenge the built environment is grappling with, equipping you with the in-demand skills sought after by employers. Featured organisations in this programme include global consultancies (e.g. Buro Happold, Hoare Lea, Atkins Realis) to burgeoning start-ups and SMEs as well as local councils and not-for-profit organisations such as C40 Cities, Greater London Authority and London authorities.
Teaching and learning
The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc is delivered both inside and outside the classroom. This is based on individual and group-based learning that advances environmental justice. On campus, the course will be taught through a wide range of teaching techniques including lectures and seminars that are delivered by academics and guest lecturers who are held in high esteem among their international peers for their contribution to academic thinking and engagement in development practice. There is also formative and summative coursework involved.
We take learning one step further through our Learning Alliances that form partnerships between students and staff of the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc and international students, various institutions, and civil society groups. Together, we examine the causes and impacts of real-world environmental injustices and how these can be tackled through strategic interventions.
Our pedagogic approach emphasises different forms of learning. We embed ourselves in the context, learning collectively with others and through everyday interactions in selected neighbourhoods. We explore power relations and processes from the household to the city-scale. We also learn spatially using mapping to grasp the spatiality of problems at various scales, to foster critical reflection and awareness, to denounce otherwise invisible processes and to provoke new framings of urban change. Finally, we also learn reflexively, pausing to think about the consequences of where we learn from and how, to fundamental challenge and make explicit our positionality. This is critical to develop ethical and forward-looking urban practitioners.
Department-level Development Workshops will introduce you to the current debates and issues surrounding international development and planning. Through lectures, short films, and group discussions you will discuss key topics in urban development, urban equality, drawing on post- and de-colonial insights. Through a roleplay methodology in the Development Workshops, we will encourage you to mix with your peers across our seven master’s courses across The Bartlett Development Planning Unit and “step into the shoes” of a multiplicity of stakeholders involved in planning and decision-making. This will help you explore the intersecting identities and interests of development stakeholders whilst fostering empathy with their multiple narratives, and acknowledge the complexity of real-world planning processes.
The course is assessed through coursework, written examinations and the 10,000-word dissertation report. Coursework includes a range of individual and group assignments that that develop the ability to communicate with different target audiences.
In terms 1 and 2, as a full-time student you can typically expect between 9-12 contact hours per teaching week through a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. Each teaching week, you will have two-hour face-to-face encounters on campus in all core and optional modules. Each teaching week, you will also have one three-hour practice module encounter on campus.
Outside of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, as a full-time student you will typically study the equivalent of a full-time job, using your remaining time for self-directed study and completing assignments. We expect full-time students to commit an average of 40 to 45 hours of study per week reviewing online resources, completing module activities, engaging in wider reading and working on their assignments.
In term 3, you will complete the overseas practice engagement. The duration of this engagement will depend upon travel arrangements with partner organisations but is typically around two weeks overseas. In term 3 and the summer period, you will complete your own dissertation research, keeping regular contact with your dissertation supervisor.
Modules
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The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc is delivered over four terms when taken in one academic year. In Terms 1 and 2 you will study compulsory modules which make up 75% of the taught component of the course (equivalent to 90 credits) and provide you with the theoretical and methodological foundations of the course, with a focus on environmental planning, sustainability, environmental justice, urbanisation and development. The remaining 25% of the taught component of the course is dedicated to a range of optional modules on offer, allowing you to combine your learnings with your personal interests in terms 1 and 2. The practice module, where we complete the overseas practice engagement, runs across terms 1, 2 and 3.
In term 4, you will focus solely on your dissertation which is a research project you will conduct independently, complemented by support from a dedicated dissertation tutor. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to focus on an area of the course that most interests you. The research that supports the production of your dissertation should rely on secondary sources of data and/or primary sources of data that can be accessed without field survey work (for example internet or archival data sources). Conducting this independent research builds your skills in planning a research project, reviewing literature, and using the knowledge acquired during the taught components of the course to review evidence, develop an argument and communicate and justify your findings. The dissertation is submitted at the end of term 4.
Some past dissertations have been published as DPU Working papers, including:
- DPU Working Paper No. 215 - ‘A parar la olla’: learning from ollas comunes in times of crisis to enhance resilient and just food systems
- DPU Working Paper No. 210 - Social construction of risk: a postcolonial retrospective longitudinal analysis of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake
- DPU Working Paper No. 209 - Environmental leapfrogging to pro-environmental behaviours. A case study of a structural strategy in Taipei, Taiwan
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The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc is delivered over two years when taken part-time.
In year 1, the taught modules are delivered in terms 1 and 2 and you will study:
- The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
- Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development.
In year 2, the taught modules are delivered in terms 1, 2 and 3 and you will study:
- Environment and Sustainable Development in Practice
- Dissertation Report.
In year 2, you will also have a choice of optional modules which can either be:
- 1 x 30 credit optional module, or
- 2 x 15 credit optional modules.
In term 4 of year 2, you will focus solely on your dissertation which is a research project you will conduct independently, complemented by support from a dedicated dissertation tutor. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to focus on an area of the course that most interests you. The research that supports the production of your dissertation should rely on secondary sources of data and/or primary sources of data that can be accessed without field survey work (for example internet or archival data sources). Conducting this independent research builds your skills in planning a research project, reviewing literature, and using the knowledge acquired during the taught components of the course to review evidence, develop an argument and communicate and justify your findings. The dissertation is submitted at the end of term 4.
Some past dissertations have been published as DPU Working papers, including:
- DPU Working Paper No. 215 - ‘A parar la olla’: learning from ollas comunes in times of crisis to enhance resilient and just food systems
- DPU Working Paper No. 210 - Social construction of risk: a postcolonial retrospective longitudinal analysis of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake
- DPU Working Paper No. 209 - Environmental leapfrogging to pro-environmental behaviours. A case study of a structural strategy in Taipei, Taiwan
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The Environment and Sustainable Development MSc is delivered over a period of two to five years when taken on a flexible basis. You may structure your core and optional modules in any format you wish, noting that the practice module and dissertation must be taken in your final years of study.
The dissertation is a research project which you will conduct independently, complemented by support from a dedicated dissertation tutor. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to focus on an area of the course that most interests you. The research that supports the production of your dissertation should rely on secondary sources of data and/or primary sources of data that can be accessed without field survey work (for example internet or archival data sources). Conducting this independent research builds your skills in planning a research project, reviewing literature, and using the knowledge acquired during the taught components of the course to review evidence, develop an argument and communicate and justify your findings. The dissertation is submitted at the end of term 3.
Some past dissertations have been published as DPU Working papers, including:
- DPU Working Paper No. 215 - ‘A parar la olla’: learning from ollas comunes in times of crisis to enhance resilient and just food systems
- DPU Working Paper No. 210 - Social construction of risk: a postcolonial retrospective longitudinal analysis of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake
- DPU Working Paper No. 209 - Environmental leapfrogging to pro-environmental behaviours. A case study of a structural strategy in Taipei, Taiwan
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability are subject to change. Modules that are in use for the current academic year are linked for further information. Where no link is present, further information is not yet available.
Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits. Upon successful completion of 180 credits, you will be awarded an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development.
Fieldwork
In Term 3 of the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc, you will carry out an overseas practice engagement as part of the practice module embedded in Learning Alliances established in different cities. This is an immersive experience of conducting fieldwork in a Global South context. In preparation for an overseas practice engagement, you will gain analytical, diagnostic and communication skills through a desktop study in Term 1. Terms 2 and 3 provide the opportunity to further develop your action-research methodological and planning skills and to apply acquired capacities for diagnosis, dialogue, advocacy, and action planning in specific contexts. The fieldwork entails primary data collection in collaboration with the overseas partners, filling information gaps, refining strategies, communicating findings, and producing impactful outputs.
Over several years, our Learning Alliances have incrementally built a body of knowledge to understand how environmental injustices are produced in different contexts and how they can be addressed. In addition to influencing policymaking and planning through strategy development, we also aim to strengthen the local research capacity of young professionals and partner institutions. Our previous Learning Alliances have included cities in India, Ghana, Peru, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Colombia with themes focuses on vital ecological infrastructure systems, peripheral urbanisation and consolidation of informal settlements, risk, urban renovation and greening, urban infrastructure and services, food security and urban agriculture amongst others.
Ultimately, you will encapsulate your research findings and recommendations moving forward in written reports, policy briefs and videos. These research outputs operate beyond academia and can serve partner organisations at the same time as building a portfolio for your future career.
Accessibility
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Fees and funding
Fees for this course
Fee description | Full-time | Part-time |
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Tuition fees (2025/26) | £20,500 | £10,250 |
Tuition fees (2025/26) | £33,000 | £16,500 |
Programme also available on a modular (flexible) basis.
The tuition fees shown are for the year indicated above. Fees for subsequent years may increase or otherwise vary. Where the programme is offered on a flexible/modular basis, fees are charged pro-rata to the appropriate full-time Master's fee taken in an academic session. Further information on fee status, fee increases and the fee schedule can be viewed on the UCL Students website: ucl.ac.uk/students/fees.
Additional costs
For Full-time and Part-time offer holders a fee deposit will be charged at 10% of the first year fee.
For flexible/modular offer holders a £500 fee deposit will be charged.
Further information can be found in the Tuition fee deposits section on this page: Tuition fees.
Core costs related to compulsory practice engagement projects will be covered from within tuition fees. This includes partner and facilitation expenses, travel-related costs where travel is possible (e.g. transportation, visas, travel insurance) and accommodation costs where required. Personal expenses (e.g. food, mobile data, non-essential leisure activities) must, as normal, be covered by the student regardless of whether practice engagements take place in person or remotely.
UCL’s main teaching locations are in zones 1 (Bloomsbury) and zones 2/3 (UCL East). The cost of a monthly 18+ Oyster travel card for zones 1-2 is £114.50. This price was published by TfL in 2024. For more information on additional costs for prospective students and the cost of living in London, please view our estimated cost of essential expenditure at UCL's cost of living guide.
Funding your studies
Any additional funding available will be advertised on The Bartlett Development Planning Unit scholarships and funding webpage and The Bartlett faculty webpage.
The Bartlett Promise Scholarship aims to enable students from backgrounds underrepresented in The Bartlett to pursue master's studies. Please see the UK Master's scholarship and Sub-Saharan Africa Master's scholarship webpages for more information on eligibility criteria, selection process and FAQs.
For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.
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Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Masters Scholarship
Deadline: 28 March 2025Value: Fees, stipend and other allowances (Duration of programme)Criteria Based on financial needEligibility: EU, OverseasBartlett Promise UK Master's Scholarship
Deadline: 31 May 2025Value: Tuition fees plus £15,864 maintenance/yr (Duration of programme)Criteria Based on financial needEligibility: UKCommonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme (CSSS)
Deadline: 12 December 2024Value: Full fees, flights, stipend, and other allowances (1 year)Criteria Based on both academic merit and financial needEligibility: EU, OverseasGREAT Scholarship
Deadline:8 May 2025Value: £10,000 towards tuition fees (1 year)Criteria Based on both academic merit and financial needEligibility: EU, Overseas
Next steps
Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.
There is an application processing fee for this programme of £90 for online applications. Further information can be found at Application fees.
When we assess your application, we would like to learn:
- Why you want to study Environment and Sustainable Development at graduate level
- Why you want to study Environment and Sustainable Development at UCL
- What particularly attracts you to the chosen course
- What you think you will bring to the course
- How your academic and professional background meets the demands of this challenging course
- Where you would like to go professionally with your degree
We give preference to candidates with a minimum of six months relevant work experience.
Together with essential academic requirements, the personal statement is your opportunity to illustrate whether your reasons for applying to this course match what the course will deliver.
Please note that you may submit applications for a maximum of two graduate programmes (or one application for the Law LLM) in any application cycle.
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