Environmental Health with Professional Practice

Take your first steps in your career as a professional environmental health officer with UWS’s BSc (Hons) Environmental Health with Professional Practice.

This degree has been developed with input from industry experts, local authorities and the Society of Chief Environmental Health Officers in Scotland.

You’ll explore how the natural and built environment impacts on human health and learn how to keep people safe and healthy using science, technology, law and professional practice.

This degree will provide you with an underpinning of the basic sciences and environmental health before allowing you to focus on specialist subjects of your choice.

Highlights

• The BSc (Hons) Environmental Health with Professional Practice provides a direct pathway for you to become a professional Environmental Health Officer (EHO), by combining both the academic and professional practice requirements of training into the undergraduate degree, leaving students, upon completion of the degree, ready to sit the REHIS Professional Exams.
• This degree is unique within the UK. Nowhere else in the UK has the academic and professional practice in local authority elements of training being incorporated into one seamless learning experience. We are proud to be accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland and provision of this course resides exclusively in UWS.