15 Environmental Sciences Degree Programs in Sweden

During this distance-based Master’s programme, you will learn about how everyday outdoor environments can promote development, health and well-being.

The Master's Programme in Environmental Science and Sustainability aims to develop your competence in working with environmental issues. You will study environmental issues from a scientific perspective - analysing causes, relationships and possible solutions to environmental problems. Sustainable development is a core theme within the programme, which will help you prepare for your future career, whether you aim to work at a government agency or in the private sector.

The MSc Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology provides how to design and operate life science-based processes with respect to product quality, sustainability and finance. Graduates have the competencies and skills to use cells, cell components and biomolecules to produce commodities.

This programme is perfect if you would like a European double Master’s degree focusing on the relationships between natural resource uses in Europe and their effects on the environment and society.

Soil, water and the environment are of major concern at all levels of society. This unique Master’s programme prepares you for a future career as a soil and water expert.

This programme is a top choice for you who are open minded and wish to get profound understanding in forest management, ecology, planning and policy that goes beyond certain national traditions.

The MSc Chemical Engineering for Energy and Environment equips students with advanced knowledge and practical tools to design various processes along the value chain. Learn to analyse and design processes crucial for sustainable energy, clean water, emissions reduction, and circular resource flows.

Discover the educational potentials of leaving the classroom and exploring the surroundings. All children deserve the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential. This master’s program will increase your knowledge about learning processes with a focus on experience-based learning, using different modes and methods. The advanced courses in educational science will help teachers and other educators understand how a variety of outdoor environments can be used as resources for learning and knowledge.

MESPOM is an Erasmus+; Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management operated by four leading European and two North American universities. The students study in at least three out of six consortium universities and are awarded a joint degree upon completion. Bringing together the best from the excellent partner institutions and offering on-site insight into multiple cultures with diverse environmental regimes, MESPOM prepares students for identifying and implementing solutions to complex environmental sustainability challenges, especially in an international context. The multifaceted educational journey also creates a unique platform for the vibrant alumni network that characterises this programme.

The Master Programme in Applied Computational Science with a specialisation in Environmental Science will give you detailed knowledge about the underlying methods with respect to environmental science. You will learn how to study complex processes in natural sciences, and how Computational Science can contribute to knowledge evolution in society.

Developing solutions to our environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution, air, and water quality, requires people who both understand problems holistically and can tackle them at the microscopic level. A Master of Environmental Science degree from Stockholm University will give you those tools, through education in either Atmospheric Science, Biogeochemistry or Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The courses in Atmospheric Science and Biogeochemistry will provide the fundamental knowledge of the composition and functioning of the environmental compartments: the atmosphere – the freshwater and ocean – and the land systems.

This program will provide the students with cutting-edge knowledge in exploration and mining geology used by earth scientists active in the exploration and mining of metals and minerals. The program covers aspects necessary for an environmentally aware geoscientist. The teaching is in English and the program offers two specializations for the students; exploration and environmental geosciences.

This programme presents a multidisciplinary education in the environmental sciences of the high latitudes. Due to accelerated changes, there is a need for experts with multidisciplinary training. The programme is a joint Nordic master of Agricultural University of Iceland with Lund University and the University of Helsinki, and students will graduate from two universities. The master program includes one semester in Iceland and students will have access to courses and research projects at any of the four additional EnCHiL partners. The curriculum contains a mandatory mobility period of at least one semester.

Chemicals are transported to the Nordic and Arctic environments from the low latitude regions due to industrial and agricultural activities causing accumulation and toxic effects along the food chain. The ongoing climate change leads to the melting of icebergs that may release contaminants trapped in icebergs back into the environment. Here, we will study and investigate the consequences on human and environmental health. Environmental forensics is a multidisciplinary science combining various disciplines for increased knowledge of chemicals released into the environment and their effects on humans and the environment. The program offers an education in close connection to research related to chemical safety, health, and the environment with a focus on the Arctic environment.

The transition to green technologies and a low-carbon future is highly raw materials intensive. To address the mining-related sustainability challenges, encountered especially in the Arctic areas, the education of professionals must meet the new needs of the future.