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Ecology (Study Abroad) BSc Hons

What will you study?

You will examine biological ecosystems in which organisms are locked in complex interactions with each other and their environment. It's a huge field and your degree focuses on areas including animal behaviour, plant ecology and environmental microbiology. We also offer specialist topics with visiting lecturers from leading UK environmental agencies and charities, such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

You will begin your degree with modules including Life in a Changing Environment and a Spanish Field Course. In your second year, modules include Populations to Ecosystems and Evolution. Onour Study Abroad variant, you will spend your second year at one of our partner universities in the USA, Canada or Australasia. In your third year you will study modules such as Animal Behaviour and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Where could it take you?

Ecology has never been so important and can open up careers with government departments, such as the Environment Agency, or conservation organisations, such as The Wildlife Trust. Our degree will also equip you with transferable skills that are as relevant to management as they are to research. For example, recent graduates have found work in marketing and customer relations management. Around a third of our graduates continue their learning to MSc or PhD level.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development. Visit our Employability section for full details.

Typical entry requirements

For courses starting in 2013:

A-level: AAB. To include two science A-levelsfrom Biol/Chem/Comp/EnvSc/Geog/Geol/Maths/Phys/Psychology.

General Studies: Only accepted if taken as one of four A levels

Key skills: Not included in offer

GCSE: Maths and English Language at grade C

Scottish Highers: ABBBB; inc. two sciences

Irish Leaving Cert: Offers will be made on the basis of 5 or 6 Higher level subjects. Please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office (01524 592028) for further information

International Baccalaureate: 35 points with 16 in HL subjects

IELTS: 6.0

BTEC: DDM/DDD

HNC/HND: Considered for credit transfer to second year

Mature students: Applications welcome, especially with evidence of recent and successful formal study (e.g. an Access course). Please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office (01524 592028) for further information

Financial Support

Lancaster University has committed £2.7m in scholarships and bursaries to help with your fees and living costs. Our financial support depends on your circumstances and how well you do in your A-levels (or equivalent academic qualifications) before starting study with us.

Lancaster University's priority is to support every student to make the most of their life and education. For students starting their study with us in 2013, over 600 each year will be entitled to bursaries and/or scholarships to help them with the cost of fees and/or living expenses. For UK students entering in 2013 we will have the following financial support available: An Academic Scholarship of £2,000 for the first year of study to any student from the UK entering with A*, A*, A or equivalent academic qualifications

An Access Scholarship of £1,000 per year for all UK students from households with an income of less than £42,600 who achieve grades of A*, A, A or the equivalent academic qualifications

A Lancaster Bursary of £1,000 per annum for all students from England with a household income of more than £25,000 but less than £42,600

As part of the National Scholarship Programme, a £1,000 Bursary, a £1,000 Fee Waiver and a £1,000 Accommodation Discount in the first year of study, for students from England with a household income of less than £25,000. Plus a Lancaster Bursary of £1,000 in subsequent years.

*All of the financial awards above are subject to approval by the Office for Fair Access July 2012.

For full details of the University's financial support packages including eligibility criteria, please visit our fees and funding page

View details of our current Undergraduate fees.

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