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Welcome to the School of Geography and Environment, a vibrant community of agenda-setting researchers, teachers, students and professional services staff.

We are one of the foremost geography and environment university departments in the world, internationally recognised for the quality of our research and our teaching. Geography at the University of Oxford is a large, vibrant and intellectually diverse community comprising the core academic department of the School of Geography and the Environment, its three research centres: the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) and the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) and several geographers based elsewhere in the wider university.

We craft robust, imaginative and forward-looking answers to pressing questions about the environment, technology, geopolitics and socio-economic change.

Undergraduate study

Experience the unique and integrative undergraduate geography course at a university leading the way in geographical teaching and research.

Open days: Discover if Oxford Geography is for you

Why study Geography at Oxford?

Diversity and access initiatives

Admissions guidance

Careers after studying Geography

Frequently asked questions about the BA in Geography

Taught graduate degree programmes

With over 200 graduate students from a range of nationalities, professional and disciplinary backgrounds we are one of the largest, most diverse and vibrant graduate schools in the world offering advanced degrees in Geography and the Environment.

MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Nature Recovery

MSc in Nature, Society & Environmental Governance

MSc in Water Science, Policy & Management

MSc in Environmental Change & Management (Environmental Change Institute)

MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise & the Environment (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)

Frequently asked questions about the MSc/MPhil

Graduate research degree programmes

The Doctor of Philosophy in Geography and the Environment (DPhil) is an advanced research degree which provides outstanding candidates with the support and intellectual environment to complete their own original research.

Admission guidance

Current DPhil research

Potential supervisors and topics for DPhil research

Frequently asked questions about the DPhil

News

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NEWS

GRIT remaps the world’s rivers, branching into the unknown to aid global flood modelling

A team, led by Professor Louise Slater in the School of Geography and the Environment, has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. The new study, published in Water Resources Research, introduces GRIT—a mapping system that finally shows how rivers really flow, branch, and connect landscapes.

15 May 2025

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NEWS

Oxford collaborates with the BBC: The power of fandom in Call the Midwife audiences

A new co-produced video series from the BBC and Dr Alice Watson, from the School of Geography and the Environment, explores how the acclaimed television drama Call the Midwife inspires audiences to engage, create, and connect — offering fresh insights into the power and resonance of popular culture, and the wider impact of public service broadcasting.