Geospatial Sciences MSc

UCL (University College London)

Prepare for a career in geospatial sciences with this one-year MSc at UCL. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of acquiring, processing, and analysing spatial data, with the flexibility to tailor the course to your specific interests through a range of optional modules. If you’re looking for a specialist Master’s in geospatial sciences, there is no better place to study than UCL. Bringing together the relevant theory with extensive project-based experience, this course covers diverse topics in geospatial sciences – from terrestrial, marine, space-based, and airborne techniques for spatial data acquisition to the principles of coordinate reference systems, data representation, and digital spatial data manipulation. In addition to excellent teaching and insights into current research and theory, you’ll gain practical skills in IT packages, programming languages, web and mobile systems architecture, and specialist software tools. You’ll also gain transferable skills like communication, project management and critical thinking – which, when coupled with your technical expertise, will make you highly sought after for jobs in industry, commerce, government and non-governmental bodies. This programme is most likely to appeal to students who have an academic background in a subject such as engineering, architecture, environmental studies, geography, mathematics, earth sciences, physical or computational sciences and wish to expand their knowledge of theory, tools and techniques for working with geospatial data, from acquisition to processing to analysis.