| dc.description.abstract | The East African region is undergoing rapid growth in all segments including demographic, socioeconomic, industrial, infrastructural and others. The exploration and mining of minerals and fossil fuels coupled with ongoing industrialization in the region requires more professional environmental scientists to address environmental issues, challenges and oversites in planning.
The unprecedented growth exerts pressure and immeasurable demand on the natural resources with consequential resource degradation, contamination, pollution and overexploitation which requires urgent and continuous interventions of skilled graduate experts within environmental science. The program of Master of Science in Environmental Science is a new postgraduate degree programme in the Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Kyambogo University. The programme aspires to train world leaders in environmental sector, as it aims to attract top performing and ambitious graduates in the country, East Africa and beyond. Upon completion of this programme the students will knowledgeably innovate solutions to complex environmental issues in tandem with the changing times. Furthermore, the students will be capable of undertaking innovations and technologies that would support environmental formulation, implementation and reviews that will be research-based demonstrating knowledge, practical skills and high level of competencies that will be proportionate with emerging environmental challenges and issues. The trained graduates will offer skilled human resource and expertise in the environmental sector in various local and international organizations, both public and private such as ministries, non-governmental organizations and private sector. Career prospects for graduates both in East Africa and abroad include the manufacturing and production industry, environmental management jobs, research institutions, environmental consultancy firms, universities and institutions of higher learning. | en_US |
