Petroleum Geoscience
MSc and Postgraduate Diploma

Entrance requirements

Academic

• A second class undergraduate degree or the equivalent, from a university or other institution acceptable to the University of London. An upper class degree and/or industry experience will be beneficial but not a requirement.
• You are required to have regular access to the internet and to meet specific hardware and software requirements (see below).
• You must be in employment within the industry OR be able to demonstrate adequate support from a company for access to project work and facilities.

English language

An advanced level of ability to work in English is required. You may be required to pass, or to have passed within the last three years, IELTS at level 6.5 or an equivalent test of proficiency in English acceptable to the University.

IT requirements

To study these programmes you need a computer with access to the Internet. The minimum specification is a 133Mhz, Pentium PC (266 Mhz recommended) or equivalent running Windows 98 or later; 32MB RAM; screen resolution 800x600 colour or higher; CD-ROM Drive, Sound Card and speakers (or G3 Macs and later running at least Mac OS 7.0). The computer should have at least 1GB of free hard disk space. You will also need the following software:

Internet Explorer version 6 or above, JavaScript and cookie-enabled (Mac users will need the latest version of Safari)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 or above
QuickTime 6.0 or above
Flash plug-in
Anti-virus software
Microsoft Office 98 or higher (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access).

Please note: for the independent research project (MSc students only), different computing specifications may be required. In such cases, the specific requirements will be discussed with the project supervisor at the project design stage.