Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,800 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Dutch I EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA students
** for Non-EU|for EU/EEA EUR 2,530
Key Summary
Introduction
The expertise gained in this master is essential in attempts to limit global climate change and its negative impacts, and adapt successfully to the consequences of climate change. Governments and companies seek advice from environmental psychologists to understand the human dimension of sustainable development, and leading journals, such as Nature, stress the importance of the social sciences for solving environmental and energy-related problems. This master will equip you for job opportunities that focus on finding effective and acceptable societal solutions to these problems.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Environmental Psychology
- Internship
- Master's thesis
- Methodological course
- Designing interventions
- Selected topics in Environmental Psychology
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainability
Program Outcome
Credits: 60 ECTS
MSc in Psychology
Career Opportunities
There is an increasing demand from practitioners and policy makers to understand the human dimension of sustainable development. Technical solution alone cannot solve environmental problems: Behavioural changes are required and sustainable policies and innovations need to be accepted and adopted by the public. This Master will prepare you for job opportunities in science and practice that focus on finding effective and societally acceptable solutions to environmental and energy-related problems.
Our Program equips you for positions in practice or science.
- Job examples
- Policy advisor
- Environmental policy making (e.g. at national or municipality level)
- Consultancy
- Behavioral expert in environmental and energy organizations
- (such as grid operators, energy providers and water companies)
- Environmental communication and education
- (for example at MilieuCentraal )
- Researcher at an institute of applied sciences
- (such as the Netherlands institute for social research (SCP))
- PhD in Environmental and/or Psychological research