If you are looking for a specialist Master’s in geospatial sciences with a focus on geographic information science and computing, there is no better place to study than here at UCL.
Bringing together the relevant theory with extensive project-based experience, this Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accredited course covers the diverse facets of geospatial sciences from acquiring, processing, and analysing geospatial data to geographic information science, geocomputation, programming, machine learning, data science, and web and app development. In addition to excellent teaching and insights into current research and theory, you’ll gain practical skills and learn specialist software tools like ArcMap, Cyclone, PhotoScan, QGIS, FME, Revit, and PostGIS.
You will also learn soft transferable skills like communication, project management and critical thinking which, when coupled with your technical expertise, will make you highly sought after for jobs in industry, commerce, government, and non-governmental bodies.
Our course offers a combination of theory, practice, and innovation that will give you the strong technical and contextual foundation you need to progress into a geospatial science career in either industry or research.
Graduates with a degree in Geospatial Sciences (Geographic Information Science and Computing) are equipped for a diverse range of roles, including GIS professional/officer, data scientist, geospatial software developer and consultant. According to the latest Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2017–2024 cohorts , our graduates go on to work for a variety of organisations including engineering consultancies, GIS software companies and national mapping agencies. Our students establish strong links with industry through the industrial seminar series and industrial research projects. Additionally, many graduates from our courses go on to PhD research at UCL or elsewhere.
This degree offers you the following opportunities and benefits: