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This degree gives you the professional skills, scientific knowledge and regulatory understanding needed to work in environmental health. You’ll study how to protect public health by managing risks in areas like food safety, housing, pollution and workplace health, paired with field experience and hands-on training.
It’s a great fit if you're interested in combining science, law/regulation and public service — working to prevent disease, protect the environment, or enforce health and safety. If you like practical work, investigations, field-trips, and making measurable impacts in communities, this could be your path.
Curriculum Structure
Here’s what you’ll learn across the three years (full-time), how the modules build, and what knowledge/skills you’ll gain.
Year 1 (Level 4)
In your first year you build the foundations: you’ll study Key Study Skills, which helps you with academic writing, research & planning. Environmental Sciences introduces environmental stressors and how environment & human health interact (with field visits to places like sewage treatment plants or restored landfill) and Understanding Populations looks at demographics, health inequalities and how public health works at a community level. You’ll also take An Introduction to Environmental Health Law and Policy to understand how regulations & legal frameworks developed, Environmental Health Concepts to see what intervention areas (housing, food safety, health & safety, etc.) are about, and Practical Skills for Public & Environmental Health where you start getting hands-on with tools and methods.
Year 2 (Level 5)
In Year 2 you deepen your technical and regulatory knowledge and start to apply it. You’ll have Food Safety, which covers hygiene, contamination, control of foodborne hazards; Environmental Protection, focusing on chemical, physical, social hazards and how to prevent or mitigate them; Housing and Public Health, examining how housing conditions affect health and what interventions/regulations apply; Health and Safety, learning legislation, risk assessment, workplace standards; Research Methods for Environmental Health, which teaches you how to do qualitative & quantitative data collection/analysis and critically evaluate studies; plus Work-Based Learning – Developing Environmental Health Skills, a workplace or project-based module where you apply your learning in realistic settings.
Year 3 (Level 6)
In your final year you move toward independence and professional readiness. The Dissertation (40 credits) lets you investigate a topic of your choice in environmental health in depth via literature or empirical work. Core modules include Professional and Interdisciplinary Studies, which helps you integrate with other disciplines and understand your professional role; Career Planning and Professional Development, sharpening your employability and mapping your future path; Health Promotion, where you learn how to design, evaluate public health/health promotion initiatives; Sustainability and Climate Change, exploring how environmental change impacts health and how to respond; along with more applied modules linked to those five key areas (food safety, housing, environmental protection, etc.).
Focus areas
Housing; Food Safety; Health & Safety; Environmental Protection; Health Protection & Promotion; Law & Policy; Sustainability & Climate Change; Research & Applied Practice.
Learning Outcomes
You’ll be able to:
Professional Alignment (Accreditation)
Reputation (Employability Rankings)
From the very first year, the degree is designed so you learn by doing, not just by reading. You’ll get involved in field trips that make the classroom come alive, hands-on training, work-place projects, and assessment that includes real work and applied tasks (not just exams). The programme builds up your skills progressively — the basic legal, scientific, and practical foundations, then specialist interventions, enforcement, inspection, professional evaluation and finally a project (dissertation) in your final year.
Here are concrete examples of what you’ll do and use on this degree:
Facilities, Tools, and Learning Supports
To help you carry out all this practical work, LJMU gives you a suite of specialised resources:
After completing this degree, graduates commonly work as:
These roles are central to public health, local government, private sector safety & compliance, and sometimes consultancy work.
Key Advantages & Data: Why This Degree Stands Out
Here are the main strengths of LJMU’s Environmental Health programme, with specific stats, services, and partnerships:
Further Academic Progression:
After finishing your BSc (Hons) in Environmental Health, possible next steps include:
CBSE (India): Applicants must hold a Higher Secondary Certificate (Standard 12) with at least 65% overall, including 60% in both Mathematics and their chosen subject.American (GPA/AP): A U.S. High School Diploma with a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required, plus either an ACT score of 24, two APs graded 3 or above, or an SAT score of 1100.International Baccalaureate (IB): The IB Diploma is accepted on its own or combined with other qualifications, provided students demonstrate strong academic performance.A-Levels: Typical offers range from BBC, with at least two full A-Levels required. Up to 20 UCAS points may be considered from AS-Level subjects.GCSE (and Equivalents): A minimum Grade 4 or C in English Language and Mathematics is required. Equivalent Level 2 qualifications in Maths or English are also accepted.IELTS: An overall score of 6.0 with no component below 5.5 is required, and results must be valid within two years of course commencement.TOEFL (iBT): A total score of 78 is needed, including at least Reading 18, Writing 17, Listening 17, and Speaking 20.UCAS: Applications are made through UCAS, with points calculated based on A-Level and AS-Level results, up to a maximum of 20 from AS subjects.Nature conservation officerEnvironmental EngineerEnvironmental consultantEnvironmental education officer Health Data AnalystOccupational Health and Safety AdvisorHealth Improvement PractitionerGlobal Health ConsultantHealth Services ManagerBiostatisticianPublic Health EducatorClinical Trials CoordinatorHealth Communication SpecialistNutrition and Public Health AdvisorDisease Prevention CoordinatorHealth Protection SpecialistPublic Health Project Manager
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