Geography

Geography is the discipline that asks how the world around us came to look and function as it does, and how the natural and human forces that shape it continue to interact. It encompasses physical processes such as climate, landforms, rivers, and ecosystems alongside human questions of population, settlement, economic development, cultural identity, and political organisation. The power of geography lies in its ability to hold these two perspectives together, recognising that neither the natural nor the human world can be fully understood in isolation from the other.

At the University of Northampton, this part-time programme gives you the flexibility to study geography around other commitments, supported by small group teaching and one-to-one tutorials that ensure you receive individual academic guidance. You will engage with fieldwork as well as classroom-based learning, including day trips and UK residential fieldwork that develop the practical skills of observation, measurement, and analysis that professional geographers use. The research-active staff bring current geographical thinking into their teaching, connecting your studies to the live debates and developments in the discipline.

Geography graduates work in environmental consultancy, urban and regional planning, local and national government, international development, education, geographic information systems, conservation, and sustainability roles in business. The combination of physical and human geography knowledge makes graduates adaptable and able to move between sectors with relative ease. The fieldwork skills and quantitative competencies developed in the degree are particularly valued by environmental and planning employers.

Postgraduate study in geography, environmental science, planning, development, or geographic information systems is a natural route for those who wish to specialise further.