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Good Jobs Waiting for Geographical & Environmental Studies Graduates

Exciting job prospects await graduates of the Bachelor of Environmental Policy & Management and those with a major in Geographical & Environmental Studies in other degrees from the University of Adelaide.

Opportunities increase for graduates with a good fourth year Honours degree in Environmental Policy and Management.

Graduates with Geographical & Environmental Studies find their qualifications especially in demand in fields where they can apply their geographical training. Areas such as:

• environmental and urban management,
• monitoring economic restructuring and social change,
• social and regional planning, and
• development of public policy.

After graduating you may also choose to improve your competitiveness in the job market by undertaking further study in the form of a coursework Master of Environmental Policy & Management, or perhaps the Graduate Diploma,  Graduate Certificate or Professional Certificate out of the Master's program. 

Research in Geographical & Environmental Studies is in high demand, and the Discipline supports a large cohort of local and international candidates in both the Master's by research program and the Doctor of Philosophy program.