Master'sScience for Sustainability
Will you help navigate society towards environmental sustainability? In this Master's programme you learn about planetary boundaries and societal transitions, and acquire skills to solve sustainability challenges with societal actors.
Something for you?
- Become a sustainability navigator: guiding society towards a sustainable future.
- Combine natural and societal sciences to understand and shape sustainability transitions.
- Learn and work with societal actors such as companies, authorities and civilians.
- Study together with students from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds.
Admission requirements
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- Main language
- English (100%)
- Study duration
- 2 years (120 EC)
- Start
- September
- Contact hours
- 15-20
- Programme format
- Full time
- Degree
- Master of Science
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science, Nijmegen School of Management
- CROHO code
- 69351
- Accreditation
- NVAO
What will you learn
In the master’s programme Science for Sustainability, you will learn how to collaborate with companies, governments and societal organisations to address urgent sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity.
You will explore the complex interaction between humans and nature, learn to work with system models, and discover how organisations can drive sustainable change. In the second year, you will focus on your master’s thesis, applying your knowledge in your own research project.
Study programme
Future career opportunities
The aim of the Master's programme Science for Sustainability is to train sustainability navigators, i.e., applied scientists or academic professionals who are able to guide the transition towards a sustainable society in collaboration with societal actors.
Labour market research has shown that there is a great need for transdisciplinary trained sustainability experts. A selection of possible positions that graduates can fulfil include sustainability advisor for governments or companies, sustainability researcher, knowledge broker in the field of sustainability, and environmental expert. There are also graduates who become an entrepreneur and start their own sustainable company.
Career prospectsResearch
Within the broad field of sustainability, the unique identity of the Science for Sustainability programme lies in the emphasis on two specific dimensions: the first is planetary boundaries: we are assessing whether human activities are within the planetary boundaries with regards to the environmental sustainability. We are building upon knowledge from especially the natural sciences. Disciplines like biology, earth sciences, chemistry and physics.
The second is societal transition process. We are contributing to the necessary societal transition process(es), considering the specific societal context of the environmental sustainability challenge through the inclusion of actor-specific knowledge and values, as well as the economic and societal dimensions of sustainability.
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If you are going to follow this Master's programme, you will pay an annual tuition fee. There are different tuition rates. The amount depends on your personal situation.
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