The Programme offers multidisciplinary training that provides the knowledge needed to tackle today’s complex environmental challenges and drive tomorrow’s change.

We offer our students two curricula:

• Environmental Quality and Management: focused on monitoring and analyzing biotic and abiotic environmental components, assessing environmental quality, and managing land and resources;
• Environmental Sustainability: aimed at measuring and preventing anthropogenic impacts on the environment and designing sustainable processes and products.

The programme includes: six mandatory courses, elective courses from a wide range of options, with field and laboratory activities; experimental thesis projects carried out internally or externally, in Italy or abroad.

Skills Acquired

We ensure you receive advanced-level training preparing you for highly qualified and specialized professional roles in the environmental field.

The acquired skills include:

• mastery of the scientific method
• knowledge of land investigation techniques and data analysis
• ability to analyze the environment in its biotic and abiotic components
• knowledge of prevention, decontamination, and remediation methodologies
• ability to carry out environmental monitoring, control and management activities and to perform resource and impact assessments
• ability to integrate environmental data and information, including legal and economic aspects
• a transversal vision of environmental sustainability from ecological, biological, chemical, and geological perspectives
• knowledge of procedures to verify environmental sustainability of human activities through data processing and protocol application
• ability to propose eco-innovations in process or product.

Career Opportunities

The Programme guarantees a high employment rate with access to responsible roles. Career opportunities are available in both the public and private sectors, in various fields:

• ecology
• biology and biotechnology
• hydrology
• occupational safety
• environmental consulting
• environmental quality assessment and resource management
• environmental control, waste management, remediation and depuration
• renewable energy and energy saving
• biodiversity conservation
• sustainable development
• circular economy
• eco‑innovation
• geology and geophysics
• meteorology
• botany and zoology
• acoustics
• teaching

Thesis

“During thesis activities students of Environmental and Terrestrial Sciences use state‑of‑the‑art laboratories, interact with faculty and researchers from different disciplines and learn to approach environmental issues with an interdisciplinary approach.

The Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences is a recognized centre of excellence in environmental studies.”

(Prof. Laura Bonati, Chair of the Environmental Sciences Course Committee)  

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What Our Graduates Say

“I started working as a freelance professional after passing the exam to register in the Register of Agronomists and Foresters and I currently collaborate as a technician at the Torbiere del Sebino nature reserve.

This course prepared me for the job I am doing, as it is characterized by a high level of multidisciplinarity. The skills and expertise of the professors allowed me to grow significantly both personally and professionally.”