48 monthsProgramme duration
40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
13 Jan, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Geography
Degree
BA
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
Our Geography with Study Abroad BA offers a world-leading, research-driven education focused on exploring and understanding the social, cultural, political, and economic processes shaping places and societies globally. The course combines a strong social science core with optional modules and a third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, developing critical, analytical, and qualitative research skills through engagement with themes such as inequality, development, geopolitics, and environmental governance. Taught by leading researchers in a world-ranked department and based in London, the degree provides an intellectually rigorous foundation for diverse academic, policy, and professional careers.
This course offers the flexibility of our three-year BA course with an additional year abroad studying at one of our international partner institutions. On the Geography BA course, you focus on human geography and study cultural, economic, and social patterns within spatial contexts. Geography BA students typically explore topics such as migration, gender, race, identity, urban development and the impact of empire and postcolonialism, aiming to understand how spatial and social processes are intertwined.
In our foundational Year 1, you enrol on two large modules that teach a wide range of core geographic skills and knowledge. These modules include fieldwork components, while you also learn about core concepts of geography as a scientific discipline across physical and human geography dimensions. In addition, you can either take the module ‘Global Events’ or select one module from outside the Department.
In Year 2, one or two compulsory modules are supplemented by six or seven optional modules selected from a substantial pool, including field classes. We put a lot of emphasis on research design this year. At this point, you may begin to focus on topics such as development geography, environmental geography, urban geography, GIS, and climate change. You may also take one module outside the Department.
You will spend Year 3 abroad at an approved university.
Your dissertation is the main focus of Year 4, working with an academic supervisor to develop an original piece of research on a topic of your choice. In addition, you take further optional modules, including one from outside Geography if you like.
The Geography BA and BSc share core elements and it is your personal interests and the options you wish to pursue that should shape your choice. Those choosing the BA have usually studied social science or humanities subjects at A-Level or equivalent, but students may transfer to the BSc if their interests change. At the start of Year 1 they can also transfer to the BSc Geography with Social Data Science (with Study Abroad) route if they have the required grades, including A-Level Maths. Please note that if you transfer onto the BSc Geography with Social Data Science (with Study Abroad) route, you will take slightly different compulsory modules that specifically focus on quantitative methods and data analysis
Programme overview
Main Subject
Geography
Degree
BA
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
Our Geography with Study Abroad BA offers a world-leading, research-driven education focused on exploring and understanding the social, cultural, political, and economic processes shaping places and societies globally. The course combines a strong social science core with optional modules and a third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, developing critical, analytical, and qualitative research skills through engagement with themes such as inequality, development, geopolitics, and environmental governance. Taught by leading researchers in a world-ranked department and based in London, the degree provides an intellectually rigorous foundation for diverse academic, policy, and professional careers.
This course offers the flexibility of our three-year BA course with an additional year abroad studying at one of our international partner institutions. On the Geography BA course, you focus on human geography and study cultural, economic, and social patterns within spatial contexts. Geography BA students typically explore topics such as migration, gender, race, identity, urban development and the impact of empire and postcolonialism, aiming to understand how spatial and social processes are intertwined.
In our foundational Year 1, you enrol on two large modules that teach a wide range of core geographic skills and knowledge. These modules include fieldwork components, while you also learn about core concepts of geography as a scientific discipline across physical and human geography dimensions. In addition, you can either take the module ‘Global Events’ or select one module from outside the Department.
In Year 2, one or two compulsory modules are supplemented by six or seven optional modules selected from a substantial pool, including field classes. We put a lot of emphasis on research design this year. At this point, you may begin to focus on topics such as development geography, environmental geography, urban geography, GIS, and climate change. You may also take one module outside the Department.
You will spend Year 3 abroad at an approved university.
Your dissertation is the main focus of Year 4, working with an academic supervisor to develop an original piece of research on a topic of your choice. In addition, you take further optional modules, including one from outside Geography if you like.
The Geography BA and BSc share core elements and it is your personal interests and the options you wish to pursue that should shape your choice. Those choosing the BA have usually studied social science or humanities subjects at A-Level or equivalent, but students may transfer to the BSc if their interests change. At the start of Year 1 they can also transfer to the BSc Geography with Social Data Science (with Study Abroad) route if they have the required grades, including A-Level Maths. Please note that if you transfer onto the BSc Geography with Social Data Science (with Study Abroad) route, you will take slightly different compulsory modules that specifically focus on quantitative methods and data analysis
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