Careers - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

As a BSc (Hons) Environmental Sciences graduate of The University of Nottingham, you will have a wide range of career prospects based on your specialist knowledge and transferable skills. The programme is ideal if you want to keep your options open or are uncertain about your future career plans.

Postgraduate study programmes

Of the 31 students who graduated from BSc Environmental Sciences in 2018, 27 continued onto postgraduate studies at world top 50 universities according to the 2019 QS World University Rankings. Our graduates are well equipped to work in the science sector, including employment as an environmental researcher, manager or consultant.
World Ranking 2019 QS	University	Number
5	Oxford University	2
8	Imperial College London	6
10	University College London	2
24	The Australian National University	1
39	University of Melbourne	2
42	University of Sydeny	1
45	University of New South Wales	1
49	Chinese University of Hong Kong	1
	Total:	16

Graduates

Our talented graduates are highly sought after and go into a wide range of jobs including water management, software engineering, environmental consultancy, bioenergy, agriculture, business and finance. Many of them work for multinationals such as Atkins Global, Nielsen Associates, Uniqlo, Decathalon, the World Bank and PriceWaterhouseCooper, where their advanced scientific knowledge, critical and analytical abilities and communication skills are highly sought after.

Several of our graduates are also entrepreneurs and have established companies in the area of environmental science and sustainability.

I thought studying environmental science would be great help for contributing to a better environment in China, especially in current polluted situation.

I think I learned a lot knowledge at UNNC. But mostly I get the idea of “how to study” and the way of thinking, which helped me for my entire academic career.

The teaching and learning experience is quite interesting and diverse. I like the way that we carried out field works, which I learned a lot. I also appreciate that we carried out a dissertation course in UNNC that helped me very much for my graduation dissertations both in bachelor and master degree.

UNNC has broadened my horizon and changes the way for me to see and think about things.

I really miss the life in UNNC since I went to UK and even to this day.

---- Nachuan (Abe) Li, graduated in 2014

BSc Environmental Sciences (2+2)

My learning and teaching experiences at UNNC were awesome! The courses were diverse, covering different aspect of environment and nature, which made me feels like reading encyclopaedia that showing me the wide and fantastic world. Also, I can do laboratory work and computer work for my own projects, which was fantastic.

I am now a project management consultant mainly for World Bank or Asia Development Bank financed projects and most of the projects are related with 1) municipal infrastructure development, such as drainage and sewage pipeline distribution, WWTP, solid waste system management, flood management, 2) urban regeneration, 3) low carbon development and 4) vocational education development.

Studying at UNNC helped my career as it provided international professional knowledge and training. Thus we have broad international visions and can come up with more innovative or more experienced solutions. Also the learning methods were significant to me. I used to learn in a method of memorising what the teacher said, but at UNNC, I developed critical thinking, which is significant to my career life. Additionally, students are seldom constrained for their ideas. We can exchange ideas with tutors and usually we would get support to implement it. My confidence also improved by studying at UNNC. We are trained to speak out our voice and share with team, even in high level forum. Therefore, we are usually confident for what we present and how we present.

---- Ying (Amy) Ge, Graduated in 2013

BSc Environmental Sciences (2+2)