• This is a very exciting time for planetary science, with new data being returned by spacecraft from planets within college own solar system and thousands of planets now being discovered orbiting other stars. There is also growing scientific interest in the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.
  • With college BSc Planetary Science with Astronomy students will learn more about all of this and develop their knowledge of the solar system and its wider astronomical context. Students will study subjects ranging from astronomy and astrobiology to geophysics and remote sensing. Students will develop skills in the manipulation of scientific data and critical assessment of scientific hypotheses and experience actual scientific research during project work.
  • College teaching philosophy is based around flexibility, allowing students to fit the degree around their lifestyle. College embrace new technology and methods to make college degrees accessible to all and have been running remote as well as face-to-face lectures for more than 20 years. This means students can attend classes with college internationally distinguished researchers in  world-class laboratories in London or students can watch live streams/recorded lectures at home using college cutting-edge online teaching platform. Students are free to mix both these methods to find the best balance.
  • A number of our researchers work on current space missions with access to unique datasets. Students will have the chance to work on these data as part of a research project in their final year.