Cardiff University
The University of Cardiff is a leading university located in the vibrant capital of Wales. Built on a rich history of excellence, students benefit from a friendly and welcoming community with expertise from leading academics and lecturers, as well as an exceptional research programme. The university is the only Russell Group university in Wales and are proud of their long-standing reputation for academic excellence, cutting-edge research, and high student satisfaction. Over 95% of Cardiff graduates enter employment or further study shortly after graduating. A £600 million investment in their campus allows students to learn in a state-of-the-art environment, amongst both historically-significant and modern buildings. Cardiff is located just 2 hours from London and has all the amenities you would expect in a modern European capital city. 90% of research at Cardiff University is officially world-leading or internationally excellent according to the latest independent assessment of research quality. Living in the Welsh capital means having access to the country’s best cultural experiences, nightlife and sporting facilities. According to the NatWest Student Living Index, it’s also the UK’s most affordable city, meaning that your money will stretch even further here.
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MSc Water Climate Change and Sustainability
Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.
MSc Strategic and Digital Marketing
Strategic studies examines how states and other actors pursue security: the causes of armed conflict, deterrence, alliances, military power and the relationship between force and policy. Students analyse historical cases alongside current crises and debate competing theories. Graduates often work in defence and security analysis, diplomacy, risk consulting, research institutes and journalism.
MSc Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Robotics brings together mechanical design, electronics, control and software to build machines that sense and act in the physical world. Students work on motion, perception, autonomy and the algorithms that link them. Graduates often go into automation, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, medical devices and research.
MSc Maritime Business and International Trade
International trade studies how goods, services and capital move between economies, and why. Topics include trade theory, tariffs and agreements, logistics, currency, and the effect of trade on jobs and development. Graduates often work in export and import operations, logistics, banking, consultancy, trade policy and market analysis.
MSc Environmental Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Environmental management is about running organisations and land in ways that limit harm to ecosystems, air, water and climate. Studies combine environmental science with regulation, auditing, risk assessment and negotiation between stakeholders. Graduates often work in sustainability teams, consultancy, waste and water management, conservation organisations and government agencies.
MSc Engineering Net Zero
Instrumentation engineering is concerned with the devices that measure and control physical quantities such as pressure, temperature, flow and position in industrial systems. Students study sensors, signal conditioning, control loops, calibration and automation. Graduates often work in process industries, energy, manufacturing, testing laboratories and roles that keep automated plant running accurately and safely.
MSc Digital Operations and Logistics Management
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
MArch Master of Architecture
Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.
MA Politics and Public Policy
Comparative politics sets political systems side by side to explain why they differ — how institutions, elections, parties, protest movements and regimes take shape and change. Students learn case-study and statistical methods and test explanations against evidence from many settings. Graduates often work in research, policy analysis, journalism, international organisations or consultancy.
MA International Relations
International relations studies how states, institutions and other actors interact: diplomacy, conflict and security, trade, development, and the rules and organisations shaping global politics. Theory and history are used to make sense of current events. Graduates often work in government and diplomacy, international organisations, humanitarian and development bodies, journalism, research and risk analysis.
MA International Public Relations and Communication
Public administration examines how governments and public organisations are run: budgets, staffing, service delivery, accountability and the implementation of policy. Students analyse cases of programmes that worked and those that failed, and why. Graduates often work in civil service roles, local government, international organisations and the non-profit sector.
PhD Mathematics
Mathematics develops precise reasoning about structure, quantity, change and uncertainty, through areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry, probability and statistics. Proof and abstraction are the core skills, and they carry over widely. Graduates often work in data and analytics, finance, software, teaching, research, and modelling roles across science and industry.
MSci Physical Geography
Landforms, rivers, glaciers, soils, climate and ecosystems are the subject matter of physical geography, which looks at how natural systems shape the planet's surface and change over time. Fieldwork, mapping, remote sensing and data analysis run through it. Graduates often move into environmental consultancy, hazard and water management, conservation, geospatial work or research.
MSci Marine Geography
Marine engineering deals with the machinery that drives ships and offshore structures: propulsion, power generation, fuel and cooling systems, and the maintenance that keeps them running at sea. Thermodynamics, mechanics and control are core. Graduates often work in shipping, shipbuilding, offshore energy, port operations, survey and marine consultancy.
MSci Geology
Geology reads the Earth as a record: rocks, minerals, fossils and structures that reveal how the planet formed and keeps changing. Field observation and laboratory analysis are used to interpret landscapes, map subsurface layers and assess natural hazards and resources. Graduates often work in energy, mining, groundwater, environmental consulting and geological survey work.
MSci Exploration Geology
Geology reads the Earth as a record: rocks, minerals, fossils and structures that reveal how the planet formed and keeps changing. Field observation and laboratory analysis are used to interpret landscapes, map subsurface layers and assess natural hazards and resources. Graduates often work in energy, mining, groundwater, environmental consulting and geological survey work.
MSci Environmental Geoscience
Geology reads the Earth as a record: rocks, minerals, fossils and structures that reveal how the planet formed and keeps changing. Field observation and laboratory analysis are used to interpret landscapes, map subsurface layers and assess natural hazards and resources. Graduates often work in energy, mining, groundwater, environmental consulting and geological survey work.
MSci Environmental Geography
Geography brings together physical systems such as climate, rivers and landforms with human patterns of cities, migration, development and resource use, asking how place shapes both. Mapping, fieldwork and spatial data analysis are central skills. Graduates often work in planning, environmental management, geographic information systems, development, research and logistics.
MSci Computer Science with a Year in Industry
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSci Computer Science
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MScD Orthodontics
Dentistry is the clinical study of the teeth, gums and mouth — how they develop, what goes wrong, and how conditions are diagnosed, prevented and treated. Anatomy, materials and clinical technique are studied together, with a strong emphasis on precise manual work. Graduates often work in dental practice, hospital services, research and public health.
MSc Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering with a Year in Industry
Telecommunications engineering designs the systems that carry information over distance: signals, antennas, optical fibre, wireless networks and the protocols that hold them together. Students work with signal processing, electromagnetics, network architecture and reliability under real conditions. Graduates often join network operators, equipment makers, satellite and broadcast services, or infrastructure planning and research.
MSc Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering with a Research Year
Telecommunications engineering designs the systems that carry information over distance: signals, antennas, optical fibre, wireless networks and the protocols that hold them together. Students work with signal processing, electromagnetics, network architecture and reliability under real conditions. Graduates often join network operators, equipment makers, satellite and broadcast services, or infrastructure planning and research.
MSc Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering
Telecommunications engineering designs the systems that carry information over distance: signals, antennas, optical fibre, wireless networks and the protocols that hold them together. Students work with signal processing, electromagnetics, network architecture and reliability under real conditions. Graduates often join network operators, equipment makers, satellite and broadcast services, or infrastructure planning and research.
MSc Urban and Regional Development
Urban planning shapes how cities grow: where housing, transport, green space and services go, and who benefits from them. Students learn spatial analysis, design, planning law and the politics of land use and public consultation. Graduates often work in local government, planning consultancies, housing, transport and property development.
MSc Transport and Planning
Transportation studies how people and goods move by road, rail, sea and air, and how networks are planned, operated and funded. Coursework can span traffic engineering, logistics, economics and policy, with attention to safety, congestion and emissions. Graduates often work in transport planning, logistics operations, infrastructure projects and public agencies.
MSc Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Biochemical engineering brings process engineering to biology, designing the reactors, separations and controls that turn cells, enzymes and microbes into medicines, foods, fuels and materials. Work is split between laboratory experiment, modelling and plant-scale design. Graduates commonly enter pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing, food processing, energy and process consultancy.
MSc Sustainable Supply Chain Management
This field follows goods from raw material to customer: sourcing, production planning, warehousing, transport and the information that ties them together. It involves modelling flows, controlling inventory and cost, and managing disruption across suppliers and borders. Graduates often work in procurement, logistics, operations planning and distribution.
MSc Sustainable Energy and Environment
Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.
MSc Sustainable Building Conservation
Conservation science addresses how species, habitats and ecosystems can be protected and restored under pressure from land use, climate and human activity. Students learn ecology, monitoring methods, data analysis and the social and economic dimensions of conservation. Graduates often work with wildlife organisations, protected areas, government agencies and consultancies.
MSc Structural Engineering
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
MSc Software Engineering with a Professional Placement Year
Software design focuses on how programs are structured before and while they are written: breaking problems into components, choosing patterns and interfaces, and building systems that stay understandable as they grow. Practical coding sits alongside architecture, testing and version control. Graduates often work as software engineers, architects and technical leads.
MSc Software Engineering
Software design focuses on how programs are structured before and while they are written: breaking problems into components, choosing patterns and interfaces, and building systems that stay understandable as they grow. Practical coding sits alongside architecture, testing and version control. Graduates often work as software engineers, architects and technical leads.
MSc Social and Public Policy
Social policy examines how societies respond to need through welfare, health, housing, education, pensions and employment support, and who gains or loses from the choices made. Students learn to read evidence, compare systems and evaluate what policies actually achieve. Graduates work in government, charities, research institutes, consultancy and advocacy.
MSc Psychology
Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.
MSc Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy studies how the body moves and how injury, illness or ageing disrupts that movement. Learning blends anatomy, exercise science and clinical reasoning with hands-on assessment and rehabilitation techniques. Graduates often work with patients recovering from surgery or injury, in sports settings, in care for older people and in community rehabilitation.
MSc Physics
Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.
MSc Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps people take part in the everyday activities that matter to them after illness, injury or disability, or as they age. Study combines anatomy, psychology and social science with assessment, adaptation of tasks and environments, and rehabilitation. Graduates often work in health services, schools, community care and rehabilitation settings.
MSc Natural Language Processing
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSc Medicinal Chemistry
At the meeting point of chemistry and pharmacology, medicinal chemistry is about how molecules are designed, synthesised and refined to act on biological targets. Students learn synthesis, structure-activity relationships, analytical methods and how a compound behaves in the body. Graduates commonly enter pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, analytical laboratories, regulatory work and academic science.
MSc Medical Education
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
MSc Mathematics
Mathematics develops precise reasoning about structure, quantity, change and uncertainty, through areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry, probability and statistics. Proof and abstraction are the core skills, and they carry over widely. Graduates often work in data and analytics, finance, software, teaching, research, and modelling roles across science and industry.
MSc Marketing
Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.
MSc International Planning and Urban Design
Urban planning shapes how cities grow: where housing, transport, green space and services go, and who benefits from them. Students learn spatial analysis, design, planning law and the politics of land use and public consultation. Graduates often work in local government, planning consultancies, housing, transport and property development.
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