Coventry University in the UK offers a four-year undergraduate degree in disaster and emergency management. The course consists of a foundation year, where students learn the core principles of overseeing disaster and emergency responses. The foundation year is then followed by three years where students are able to choose from a range of modules relating to key areas of disaster and emergency management.
Across the latter three years of the Coventry University BSc in disaster and emergency management, students can choose from such modules as building resilient communities, ethics, governance and resilience, risk and preparedness and organizational resilience. This bachelor’s degree aims to provide students with both the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to become leaders in the disaster management and emergency response fields.
For UK students, the BSc in disaster and emergency management at Coventry University costs £7,950 for the foundation year and £9,250 for each of the degree years. For international students, contact the university for updated information on fees. The undergraduate degree can be taken full-time or part-time and a ‘sandwich’ study mode is also available – an option for students to do a year placement as part of their degree. The bachelors is taught in-person at Coventry University in the UK.