Department of Geography

Choose Leicester to Study Geography

If you are considering studying geography at undergraduate or postgraduate level, here is why you should consider Leicester:

• Study at the Times Higher Education's University of the Year 2008. Read more ...
  
• National Student Satisfaction Survey: joint 6th in 2008 amongst English Universities, joint 8th in 2007, 1st in 2006. Read more ...
  
• Geography at Leicester climbs the league tables to 9th from 17th in the Guardian University Guide 2009. Read more ...
  
• Recently refurbished facilities including state-of-the-art physical geography labs and a dedicated student study area.
  
• Fantastic field course opportunities (many subsidised by the University) to locations such as the Amazon, New York and California. Hot of the Press is a new third year Human Geography field trip to the US National Parks. We also have year abroad schemes to the US and Canada as well as ERASMUS opportunities in four European countries.
  
• A Government funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Geographical Information Science (GIS - think Google Earth - currently a 'hot' topic in Geography).
  
• The longest running MSc in GIS in the country with NERC studentships allocation, almost 100% graduate employment and accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Bursaries for a wide range of taught Masters courses are also available.
  
• A Careers Officer to help you get the job (or Masters/PhD course) you want. Leicester graduates have a better than average chance of securing the job they want, compared with all Geography graduates.
  
• An academic and personal tutoring schemes to monitor your personal development. Our low staff-UG student ratio and weekly staff office hours ensures that you will get all the support you need. At Leicester, you will only receive lectures from an academic member of staff - they are the experts.
  
• A University that is now hovering just above the top 10 of UK Universities in recent league tables published by The Guardian (14th from 21st in 2007), The Times (14th from 21st) and The Independent (12th from 20th). We also have a brand-new library (with a very nice café).
• A thriving research culture that is shared by academic staff, research associates, postgraduates and undergraduates.

Our ‘Research’ pages contain details of the research strengths of the department including descriptions of many projects that we are working on. Our ‘School Teacher’s Zone’ contains our lectures for schools programme and details about A level enrichment workshops.

If you require more information, please get in touch, or come and visit us.
I look forward to welcoming you into the department.

Professor Heiko Balzter, Head of Department