Degree Courses

Information featured on this area has been submitted by the course providers and is listed A-Z by country/location. It does not imply IAH endorsement.

In some cases, the distinction between undergraduate and postgraduate content being offered by some universities is not always clear. In any case, we encourage potential students to contact course providers to obtain further details.

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University of Western Australia

Full Time, Part Time

Postgraduate

Master of Hydrogeology
Australia
The Master of Hydrogeology at the University of Western Australia provides world-class training for groundwater professionals. The course can be completed in 1.5 to 2 years full time (depending on undergraduate degree). This course has been designed with industry to provide a rigorous training pathway for students with geology, environmental science, or environmental engineering degrees. Topics covered include groundwater flow systems, aquifer characterization, groundwater hydrochemistry, contamination and remediation, environmental hydrogeology and numerical modelling. Research projects and industry placements are available to successful candidates.

Organised by School of Earth Sciences.

http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/coursedetails?id=c168 academic-ses@uwa.edu.au
University of Strathclyde

Full Time, Part Time, Distance

Postgraduate

MSc Hydrogeology
United Kingdom
Why this course? Throughout the globe, the issues of water scarcity, water security, water economics and health and sanitation all rely on high-quality hydrogeology knowledge. This MSc will prepare you as a functional hydrogeologist to meet the needs of industry, regulators, non-governmental organisations and government consultants. The course provides you with the theoretical and practical skills to succeed in a career as a hydrogeologist. You’ll develop sound fieldwork skills which are sought-after by employers.

The MSc involves a curriculum of eight core classes and a range of optional classes. Each module is normally taught two hours per week over eight to 11 weeks.

Alternatively, the Open Access programme allows professionals to take single modules for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) purposes, or build up towards six modules to gain a Postgraduate Certificate.

MSc research project
Following successful completion of the taught component, you’ll undertake a dissertation project. We encourage you to complete this overseas. Our MSc course leader has extensive contacts in arid countries such as Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, the Middle East and Asia, giving you valuable, varied learning opportunities and practical experience around the world.

Field camp
In the spring semester you go on a week-long field camp in Scotland. You’ll get the opportunity to put much of the learned theory into practice.

Site visits introduce you to the geology and hydrogeology of the study area. You’ll gain practical experience in conducting pump tests, recovery tests and chemical sampling.

Work placement
As part of the class Independent Study in Collaboration with Industry you undertake a work placement where you report to the offices of a hydrogeological organisation and actively contribute to one of their ongoing projects.

This is a very valuable experience for you as it allows you to work as hydrogeologists for a number of weeks exposing yourself to a working environment as well as allowing you to build up contacts within industry.

Attendance
One year full-time study involves attendance at classes over two terms, plus a dissertation during the third term.

Part-time (open to UK/EU students only) involves class attendance in Years 1 & 2 and a dissertation in Years 2 or 3. Depending on timetables, just two days work release per week may be needed for 24 weeks in the year.

You can also study this course part-time through online distance learning, over 36 months, offering a flexible learning mode of study.

Organised by Prof Robert M Kalin.

https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/hydrogeology/ robert.kalin@strath.ac.uk
University of Leeds

Full Time

Postgraduate, CPD

Water and Waste Infrastructure Systems Engineered for Resilience
United Kingdom
The CDT is led by Professor Barbara Evans (School of Civil Engineering, water@leeds) in partnership with Loughborough University and Cranfield University. Water-WISER offers a unique opportunity to the next generation of water focussed scientists and engineers to contribute to knowledge about sustainable water, sanitation, and waste management services towards improving infrastructure and services for the poorest and most marginalised members of global society.
Water-WISER will recruit and train 50 Doctoral students over the next 8 years. Each studentship offers a carefully crafted 4 year MSc and PhD programme of trans-disciplinary training, which will develop the requisite skills to solve complex problems and engineer solutions to infrastructure and service delivery challenges in the Global South. Studentship funding includes a minimum of 6 months industrial placement or in-country fieldwork opportunity.

Organised by University of Leeds.

http://https://water.leeds.ac.uk/news/water-wiser-epsrc-centre-for-doctoral-training-in-water-and-waste-infrastructure-systems-engineered-for-resilience/ phd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk
University of Kansas

Full Time, Part Time, Distance

Postgraduate

Hydrogeology/ Environmental Geology; Professional Sciences Master’s degree
United States
KU offers a Masters degree and certificate in environmental geology. All classes may be taken online.

Organised by University of Kansas.

https://edwardscampus.ku.edu/environmental-geology-masters mschulme@ku.edu
University of Kansas

Full Time, Part Time, Distance

Postgraduate

Hydrogeology/ Environmental Geology; Professional Sciences Master’s degree
United States
The program provides graduate-level training on topics in geology, soil, and water that are used in environmental management, but differs from a traditional M.S. in that it also includes environmental law, business, and project management courses and a capstone (not a thesis) project. A Professional Science Master's degree in Environmental Geology (PSM-EG) and Graduate Certificate in Environmental Geology are available. The Certificate can be earned entirely online; All PSM-EG courses can be taken online, with the exception of three, face-to-face field workshops.

Organised by University of Kansas.

https://edwardscampus.ku.edu/environmental-geology-masters mschulme@ku.edu