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MSc Sustainability in Transport

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A degree from the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds opens up a range of opportunities to pursue a rewarding career in this industry. This course will equip you with an extensive specialist skill set, alongside industry experience and the chance to interact directly with industry organisations which could give you the edge with employers.

Transport consultancies are the largest employers of our graduates, but other common careers include those in government, academia, regulatory bodies, transport operators, logistics companies, not-for-profit and international agencies.

Our graduates work across the private and public sectors. Many work abroad, whether for UK companies with overseas offices, for international organisations or for national governments.

General Eligibility

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in a relevant subject such as (but not limited to) geography, town planning, earth and environment, architecture, sustainability, logistics, business and management, psychology, social policy, history, politics or public administration.

Graduates from other disciplines and those with professional qualifications plus experience in the sector will also be considered.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Environmental Policy and Governance

  • Environmental Science and Sustainability for Transport

  • Shaping Future Transport Systems

  • Transport Data Collection and Analysis

  • Transport Dissertation

  • Transport Integrated Project

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Environmental Economics and Policy

  • Critical Perspectives in Environment and Development

  • Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation

  • Climate Change Mitigation

  • Tools and Techniques in Ecological Economics

  • Sustainable Spatial Planning and Analysis

  • Green Logistics

  • Analysing Transport and Society

  • Public Transport Planning and Management

  • System Dynamics: Modelling Policy

  • Traffic Management

  • Global Transferability of Policies, Models and Methods

  • Railway Investment Appraisal

  • Transport Investment Appraisal

  • Transport and Urban Pollution

  • Transport in Development

  • Road Safety Management

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component.

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