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Program Requirements – Land Surveying Technology
First Year Required Courses (30 credits)

Completed at a college of the student’s choiceGeneral Biology 4
Physics 4
English with a Focus on Writing 6
Trigonometry 3
Economics 3
Electives[2] 10

Second Year Required Land Surveying Courses (48 credits)FTC 200 Dendrology 3
FTC 202 Introduction to Surveying 4
FTC 204 Introduction to Forest Measurements and Statistics 4
FTC 206 Forest Ecology 4
FTC 208 Spatial Analysis of Forest Resources 5
FTC 210 Leadership and Forest Technology 4
FTC 215 Timber Harvesting, Transportation, and Utilization 5
FTC 223 Introduction to Water Resources 1
FTC 251 Advanced Surveying Measurements and Computations 5
FTC 253 Surveying Law 3
FTC 255 Boundary Surveying 3
FTC 257 Construction and Topographic Surveys 3
FTC 259 Introduction to Computer Aided Drafting and Design 4

Total minimum credits for the degree 78 credits

[2] Students intending to apply to a four-year program after earning an A.A.S. degree should use electives to meet lower-division requirements.

Master Programme in Water Resources, 120.0 ECTS credits

Why should you choose Water resources and Lund?

Water is a key issue for development in the world:

“We must develop new and innovative approaches in water development and management if we are to feed the more than 800 million hungry people in the world, and ensure safe drinking water for more than 1.1 billion people who have currently no access to it.” UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his message on the occasion of the World Food Day 2002.

If you want to make a contribution towards these goals, get yourself a masters’ degree in Water Resources in Lund, Sweden!

We offer a broad programme covering the most important aspects of water resources.

You will get an opportunity to specialize in fields where we have world leading expertise.

Vision
Our vision for the students is that - after graduation - they will move on to play important roles in the water sector, and that their educational experience in Lund will assist them in becoming outstanding professionals.

Objectives

To offer a broad programme covering the most important aspects of water resources.

To elucidate the need to treat water resources in an integrated manner.

To give the students an opportunity to specialize in fields where we have world leading expertise.

To provide access to up-to-date knowledge and methods of high relevance.

To instil in the students the importance of a scientific approach.

To take advantage of the possibilities created by a multinational student group

Prerequisites

Basic admission requirements and BSc in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering or equivalent BSc including courses in geology, calculus and hydraulics or fluid mechanics. English language proficiency demonstrated in one of the following ways: IELTS score (Academic) of 6.0 or more (with none of the sections scoring less than 5.0), TOEFL score of 550 or more (computer based test 213, internet based 79), Cambridge/Oxford - Advanced or Proficiency level, O level/GCSE, having a Bachelor´s Degree from a university where English is the ONLY language of instruction, according to the latest edition of International Handbook of Universities, having previously completed a university degree, of at least three years, taught in English (certified by the university adm)or having received a passing grade in English course B (Swedish secondary school).