Foundation Year
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.
International Students
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https:kuic.keele.ac.uk
Geography (Physical) with Integrated Master's
Our four-year Physical Geography with Integrated Master's takes your understanding of the natural world to master's level, weaving advanced study into your undergraduate experience. Alongside advanced training in fieldwork, laboratory work, and data analysis, you'll develop the high-level independent research skills needed to pursue specialist careers or progress to doctoral study.
Why choose this course
- Top 5 in England for Geography (NSS 2025, broad-based universities)
- Graduate with a master's-level qualification
- Develop advanced research expertise, analytical, critical thinking and independent investigation skills to enhance your employability
- Gain high-level GIS, fieldwork, and data analysis skills that are sought after across a range of sectors, enhancing your career prospects in research, environmental consultancy, planning, conservation, and related fields.
- Our unique 600-acre campus offers a fantastic natural environment to perform fieldwork
Blending theoretical knowledge with practical skills, you will examine diverse research methods, master Geographic Information Systems (computer systems that produce connected visualisations of geospatial data), and put your learning into practice through fieldwork on and off our 600-acre campus.
A key feature of this course is our structured programme of academic and professional development workshops. From core practical laboratory skills to interview techniques and aspirational career talks from invited speakers, we will provide you with the tools, skills and connections to develop a strong foundation of employability skills for your future career.
About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.
We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.
Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.
