Geography with Study Abroad

Geography is the discipline that examines the relationship between human societies and the physical environments they inhabit, studying both the processes that shape the natural world and the social, economic, and political forces that drive how people use and change it. It is genuinely interdisciplinary, linking the physical sciences of climate, geomorphology, and ecology with the human geography of cities, migration, inequality, and development. The ability to think across that boundary is one of geography's most distinctive and valuable intellectual contributions.

At the University of Bristol, a research-intensive university with a distinguished geography department, this four-year programme includes a study abroad year, as the title indicates, in which you spend your third year studying geography and other subjects at an English-medium partner university abroad. This gives you an international academic and cultural experience embedded within a rigorous geography degree, developing your capacity to understand global processes through direct engagement with a different national context. You will study the full range of human and physical geography, developing quantitative and qualitative research skills and the critical analysis that graduate-level geography requires.

The typical entry tariff is 168 UCAS points.

Geography graduates are consistently among the most employable in the social and physical sciences. Environmental consultancy, urban and regional planning, international development, conservation, data analysis, the civil service, teaching, and climate and sustainability roles in the private sector are all common career paths. The study abroad year adds an international dimension to your profile that employers with global interests find particularly attractive.

Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in geography, environmental science, planning, or development.