There is a very large number of undergraduate courses available to an applicant considering moving in to the ecology and environmental management area of work. These courses will have been designed with different endpoints in mind and consequently the course taken may have a major influence on the skills and knowledge a graduate will have.

In recent years it has become apparent that there is a shortage of people entering the profession with appropriate field skills. What a Graduate Should Know: Survey Skills has therefore been written so that anyone applying to university will know the level of field survey skills expected of a new graduate.