Luleå University of Technology is located within a short distance from some of the most active areas of mining and exploration in Europe. The university has a strong position in education and research regarding exploration, mining, metallurgy and the environment. This is illustrated by strong interaction with exploration and mining industry and the strong industry funding for research that the university receives each year. In this masters programme, exploration and environmental geosciences education is provided by the leading Swedish experts in this field.

The programme offers two profiles:

1. Exploration, mining geology and geophysics

2. Environmental geosciences

The programme offers two profiles:

1. Exploration, mining geology and geophysics: This includes ore geology, geophysical and petrophysical exploration methods, minerals economy, and deposit evaluation. If you are interested in the global competition for securing the world´s demand of metals and non-metallic resources and if you are interested in outdoor work in often remote areas this is the choice you should make

2. Environmental geosciences: This includes geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, environmental monitoring, geochemical modelling, mine waste, and geohydrology. If you are interested in understanding how geology and environment are integrated, how nature respond to natural and man induced chemical compounds, how we monitor and mitigate geochemical pollutions this is the choice you should make.

The labour market for this sector is presently very good. The large global demand for minerals, metals and refined mineral products makes the future labour market very bright. Societies need of natural resources will increase. At the same time we will have more focus on environmental aspects and treatment of waste products and part of adopting a sustainable use of natural resources.

At LTU world class research within many of the relevant fields guarantees a high quality education. We have networks all around the world which offers possibilities for practical training and thesis work world wide. If you want to pursue an academic carrier LTU is an excellent starting point. The department of Applied Chemistry and Geosciences is among the most active research departments with internationally acknowledged research.

Please observe that deadline for application to this programme is February 17 and the admission notifications will be sent out in mid July. This means that if you are a non EU/EEA citizen you will have problems getting a visa in time because it usually takes up to 3 months to get a visa to Sweden.

The programmes homepage can be found at:

http://www.ltu.se/edu/program/TMNGA?l=en