DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

Students are required to enrol in 120 credits each year.

Students are required to enrol in 120 credits each year.

Course options in Group B MUST be taken by 2nd year direct entry students. There are no elective courses for this group.

Students on the five year MEarthSci degree should take the 80 credits of compulsory courses plus either Global Change (semester 1) or Geomorphology (semester 1) and 20 credits of other electives.

Students are required to enrol in 120 credits each year.

Students should select either EASC09061 Sedimentology, Climate and Tectonics OR EASC09062 Structural Geology and Tectonics.

If you have selected EASC09061 Sedimentology, Climate and Tectonics, you should select two optional courses in semester 1, and one optional course in semester 2.

If you have selected EASC09062 Structural Geology and Tectonics, you should select three optional courses in semester 1.

Not all course combinations are possible due to timetabling.

The Earth Sciences and Physical Geography degree is currently undergoing a restructure. The courses listed below are likely to change.

The Earth Sciences and Physical Geography degree is currently undergoing a restructure. The courses listed below are likely to change.

Students wanting to achieve an MEarthSci should have taken 120 credits worth of level 11 courses by the end of their fifth year.

In order to progress into the 5th year of the MEarthSci, students must achieve an average of 60% or more over the 3rd and 4th year combined. Boards of Examiners will consider cases of progression for students who are borderline (i.e. achieve between 58% and 59.99% average across their 3rd and 4th years), taking into account the same factors for progression which are taken into account for other progression, award or classification decisions. Borderline criteria used by Boards of Examiners are published to students in advance.