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MSc - Master of Science
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
Our world faces significant and complex challenges, from rising inequality to environmental issues. Global climate change is now affecting everyone on the planet.At this critical moment, more organisations are working to promote sustainable development, reduce human impacts on the environment, and achieve economic equity. These initiatives include the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.With the MSc Environmental Sustainability, you can explore these questions and other significant challenges affecting our present and future world.You will be encouraged to think across different disciplines and consider scientific, socio-economic, and policy perspectives to better understand sustainability and how it can be achieved in different geographical contexts.You can explore critical social and global issues and ways to address these to benefit individuals, communities, societies and nature.