A number of Universities and other establishments of higher education now have first-degrees and post-graduate level courses available involving various aspects of wastes management or environmental pollution control.  These are normally full-time courses, but some are offered on a part-time modular basis.  There is now a wide range of courses, ranging from those that contain just a module of wastes management to full-time masters degrees specialising in the subject.  Brief details of some of these courses follow:-  

Fully Accredited

• Glasgow Caledonian University MSc Wastes Management
• Cranfield University MSc Intergrated Waste Management
• University of Leeds MSc Sustainable Waste Management
• University of Northampton BSc Waste Management and Pollution Control
• University of Southampton MSc Sustainable Waste Management

Accredited Module

• University of Hull Waste Management module within MSc Environmental Technology and MPhys Geography

Provisionally Accredited

• University of Middlesex Certificate in Recycling for Susatinability
• University of Leeds PGCert Sustainable Waste Management

• Brunel University (West London) MSc Environmental Pollution Science 
• University of Wales Institute, Cardiff MSc Waste Management
• De Montfort University BSc Waste and Environmental Management
• University of Glamorgan MSc Environmental and Waste Management
• Imperial College London MSc Environmental Engineering
• University of Newcastle MSc Environmental Engineering
• University of Nottingham MEng Environmental Engineering
• University of Nottingham MRes Contaminated Land Management
• Open University Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Control
• University of Paisley MSc Waste Management with Environmental Management
• University of Plymouth MEng Environmental Engineering
• University of Reading MSc Soils and Environmental Pollution
• University of Salford MSc Water, Energy and Waste
• UCLAN MSc Sustainable Waste Management

For further details of academic courses at colleges and universities relevant to the wastes management industry, please contact:

Education Department
Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
9 Saxon Court
St. Peter's Gardens
Marefair
Northampton NN1 1SX
United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 (0) 1604 620426
Fax: + 44 (0) 1604 621339
E-mail: education@ciwm.co.uk