Our courses
Our students benefit from high-quality, research-informed teaching ensuring the very best learning experience. Studying one of our Geography courses at Loughborough University will prepare you for a wide range of exciting and diverse career opportunities.
Undergraduate
Foundation
Why choose Loughborough?
There are so many great reasons to choose us, but here are just a few reasons why Loughborough is an excellent place to study Geography.
Fieldcourses
Fieldwork is an essential experience for all of our Geography students and contributes to both effective learning and personal development as well as creating some memorable experiences.
In the first year of your degree programme you will participate in a residential fieldcourse in the UK as part of your introduction to field-based research methods in human and physical geography. All essential costs of this field trip (accommodation, travel, food) are covered as part of your tuition fees. In the second and final years of each degree course, we offer optional residential fieldcourses to a variety of locations. Choosing to do them will incur an additional course cost. Please note that destinations are renewed periodically and are therefore subject to change.
Employability
We were recently ranked in the UK Top 10 for Graduate Prospects in Geography and Environment, so studying Geography at Loughborough will set you up for a great future career.
Employability skills are embedded through our curriculum, either as stand-alone skills based modules or integrated into all of our topic-based modules. Your personal tutor will introduce you to personal development planning which is done alongside your Geography degree to prepare you for graduate life.
Your time at Loughborough University will form a launchpad from which you can build an exciting career. With so many opportunities available, you’ll never be short of ways to improve your employability.
* Times Graduate Prospects 2024
Placements and study exchange
All of our students have the chance to undertake a professional work placement during their degree, in organisations from across the public and private sectors.
Recent placement destinations include: BP, Volkswagen, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung Electronics, Confederation of British Industry, PwC, Department of Work and Pensions, Food Standards Agency and Sky. Students also have an opportunity to spend a year (or semester) abroad by securing paid work teaching English to school children or studying at a partner university.
Language opportunities
The Language Centre, which is based in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, provides a range of language modules in French, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese from beginners’ level upwards.
You may take these modules as part of your degree, enter the programme at your level of competence and work upwards one semester at a time.
