MA (Hons) Geography

at University of St Andrews

Modules
In the first two years of your degree (known as sub-honours), you will take the required modules in geography alongside modules in at least one other subject.

Typically, you will take one geography module per semester in your sub-honours years and at least three modules per semester during your third and fourth years (known as Honours). Find out more about the modular Scottish degree system.

First year
Students will take two compulsory geography modules in their first year.

• Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment: showcases how Geography as a discipline is uniquely placed to understand our changing world.
• A World in Crisis?: explores how Geography works as a ‘world discipline’ to examine global problems from a range of human, environmental and physical geography perspectives.

Second year

Students will take two compulsory geography modules in their second year.

• Geographies of Global Change: encourages students to think 'geographically' about particular physical and human dimensions of global change.
• (Re)constructing Environments, People and Places: explores how and why different peoples, places and bio-physical and social processes operate in both time and space. 

These grades are the overall standards required to consider you for entry. Find out more about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements using academic entry explained and see which entry requirements you need to look at using the entry requirements indicator.

• Home-funded  -  £1820
• RUK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) and Republic of Ireland  -  £9250
• Islands (Channel Islands, Isle of Man)  -  £9250
• EU and overseas  -  £26350

Reflecting the broad nature of geography, graduates leave St Andrews with a diverse and unique skill set, putting them in a very strong position in the jobs market.

Employers seek out geography graduates because of their rare combination of quantitative and qualitative skills, their ability to integrate and analyse diverse data, their understanding of human and environment interactions, their competence in GIS and spatial analysis, and their ability to think critically and creatively about the big social and environmental challenges facing us.