• This degree is designed around a combination of compulsory core modules and a choice of optional modules that allow students to tailor their study towards the topics that interest them most.
  • In their first-year students will study compulsory modules only, training them in the fundamental skills in geology, maths, physics, geophysics, and computer programming that they will use throughout their degree. Students who don’t have A-level Further or Pure Maths will study University level maths in their first and second year (students with this A-level study a discovery module).
  • In their second-year compulsory modules train them in the key geophysical techniques used to look inside and understand the Earth. These include methods used to understand plate tectonics, earthquake and volcanoes, as well as tools to investigate the near-surface as used to enable civil engineering projects, locate and extract the resources we need to make batteries and wind turbines, and to enable the understanding of the subsurface needed to permit carbon sequestration.
  • The final year includes a project that allows students to research with a member of staff on a topic of mutual interest. Recent projects have involved machine learning, study of the Earth's core, computational physics, the study of volcanic systems and earthquakes using satellite data, and archaeological geophysics to name a few.