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Bachelor in Environmental Sciences and Global Sustainability

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Trains professionals with the skills to interpret the natural phenomena that control the state of the environment. These graduates benefit from a specialised and integrated training, allowing them to contribute to technical and/or political decision-making based on extensive scientific criteria. They are also prepared to intervene in terms of spatial planning, nature conservation, environmental monitoring and risk control, in different professional fields.​

2026/2027

General

Academic degree:
  • Bachelor (Bologna 1st cycle degree)
ECTS:
180
Duration:
6 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Environmental Sciences

Contacts

    School of Sciences
    Campus de Gualtar
    4710 - 057 Braga
    Tel: +351 253604390 Fax: +351 253604398
    E-Mail: cpedagogico@ecum.uminho.pt; sec@ecum.uminho.pt
    URL: http://www.ecum.uminho.pt

Description

The education profile in Environmental Sciences and Global Sustainability is markedly multidisciplinary with a strong practical componente, which are essencial for training in Environmental Sciences. The solid training base of students gained over the UCs, allow them to be integrated in research activities, especially in the last year of the course. The existence of a UC “Project in Environmental Sciences” (10 ECTS) will foster the integration in ongoing research projects in several scientific Centres in the areas of Earth Sciences, Biology, Physics and Chemistry from ECUM. The conclusion of the course in Environmental Sciences will allow students to integrate into diverse professional activities in the labor market, as well as the possibility of further studies in the area of Environmental Sciences in 2nd and 3rd Cycles.

Key learning outcomes

1. Offer a multidisciplinary spectrum of scientific training in Environmental Sciences;
2. Prepare students with a multidisciplinary and holistic view of the Environmental problems;
3. Provide tools for an approach of environmental adaptation to global change processes;
4. Provide additional training in economic and legal aspects of the environment, in order to allow that the treatment of environmental issues will be framed in the social and economic problems;
5. To help students on skills aquisition to enable student mobility within the European Higher Education.

Access to higher education

Organized according to the European Credit Transfer (ECTS) is possible to be recognized for further study in other Institutions with a similar system. Completion of the Degree (180 ECTS) will allow further studies in Master Courses.

Careers

Higher Education Institutions and Scientific Research and Technological Development Institutions; Central, regional and local public Services; Project and Consulting Offices in the area of Environmental Sciences and Territorial Planning; Companies in different fields of environment, energy, quality, hygiene and safety; Solid waste recovery treatment companies; Environmental Impact Studies, Environmental Management and Environmental Engineering Companies; Quality, Environment and Safety Policy Studies; Consultancy, design, implementation and monitoring companies in the Environmental area.

Access

50

Vacancies

0

Minimum

Access forms

The access to this Cycle of Study can be done through the following ways:
- Application for National Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Local Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Access to Higher Education Admissions through Re-Entry, Change and Transfer of Course.

Formal requirements

Entrance Testing 

One of the following sets:
02 Biology and Geology
or
09 Geography
or
09 Geography
16 Mathematics
or
02 Biology and Geology
16 Mathematics
or
02 Biology and Geology
07 Physics and Chemistry 

This information must be verified on
http://www.dges.gov.pt/guias/detcursopi.asp?codc=9379&code=1000

Aditional Information

Study Plan

Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Animal Diversity BIO 6
S1 Fundamentals of Mathematics M 6
S1 General Chemistry QUI 6
S1 Geodynamics and Earth Systems GEOL 6
S1 Molecular and Cell Biology BIO 6
S2 Fundamental Physics I Fis 6
S2 Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry QUI 6
S2 Landscape and Land-Use Planning GEOL 6
S2 Plant Biology and Diversity BIO 6
S2 Statistics for Sciences M 6
Year 2 60
S1 Classical and Molecular Genetics BIO 5
S1 Fundamental Physics II Fis 5
S1 General Ecology BIO 5
S1 General Microbiology BIO 5
S1 Thematic Mapping GEOL 5
S1 Water Resources Management CAmb 5
S2 Ecophysiology BIO 5
S2 GIS technologies for the environment CAmb 5
S2 Instrumental Methods of Analysis QUI 5
S2 Introduction to Environmental Law D 5
S2 Populations and Communities BIO 5
S2 Opção UMinho 5
Year 3 60
S1 Earth-Atmosphere System CAmb 5
S1 Economy of the Environment and Natural Resources E 5
S1 Energy - from carbon to renewable CAmb 5
S1 Environmental Geology CAmb 5
S1 Geo-resources in Modern Society GEOL 5
S1 Soil Science and Conservation CAmb 5
S2 Environmental Monitorization CAmb 5
S2 Project in Environmental Sciences CAmb 15
S2 Opção I 5
Air Quality Monitoring CAmb 5
Batteries and Electromobility CAmb 5
Biodiversity and Global Change CAmb 5
Environmental Toxicology CAmb 5
Natural and Technological Risks CAmb 5
Physics of Environmental Phenomena CAmb 5
S2 Opção II 5
Air Quality Monitoring CAmb 5
Batteries and Electromobility CAmb 5
Biodiversity and Global Change CAmb 5
Environmental Toxicology CAmb 5
Natural and Technological Risks CAmb 5
Physics of Environmental Phenomena CAmb 5

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
18-03-2026
A3ES deliberation:
https://si.a3es.pt/sia3es/page?stage=ConsultaPublicaProcesso&processID=27936
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-EF 2419/2011/AL02
Registry Date:
27-03-2026
Accreditation validity:
31-07-2032