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MSc - Master of Science
Online Campus
Online
May 2026
2 Year
Overview Understand complex sustainability challenges and develop the interdisciplinary skills needed to develop solutions for your business, sector and society. The world’s biggest challenges can only be tackled with innovative, inclusive, and system-wide solutions. Our 100percentage online Masters will equip you with the interdisciplinary skills and insights you need to develop these solutions, and lead sustainable transformation in your business, sector and society at large. On this action-focused course, you will: explore urgent threats to humanity including issues of conflict, security, health, climate and environmental change unearth the root causes of these complex global sustainability challenges and the interconnected nature of environmental, social, political, and cultural issues critically assess the international development sector and scrutinise current systems and solutions like net zero, the circular economy, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the biodiversity protocols proposed at COP26, for example gain practical skills and apply academic concepts to real-world challenges, empowering you to make a tangible impact at a local or global level. Ranking 1st in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Ranking 2017-2025), the University of Sussex is renowned for its research and teaching in sustainability.
Fees can be paid at the start of the course or on a module-by-module basis. Students must pay the first module fee of £1,080 to secure their place on the course. Course fees will remain fixed for 24 months from your initial course start date. Thereafter, the course fee will rise at a rate of 2.5percentage per calendar year (subject to rounding for administration purposes).
