42 Sustainable Design Masters Degree Programs

Shape a sustainable future with the master’s program "Design for Sustainable Future." Combining design, management, and environmental engineering, it equips professionals to drive societal and environmental change. Gain skills in circular economy, sustainable practices, and collaborative design for impactful solutions.

The Master in Sustainable Fashion Design shapes students into fashion designers with a strong awareness of ethical and sustainable fashion. The curriculum promotes an in-depth understanding of creative and design aspects combined with a thorough technical knowledge of production and industrialisation, ensuring an ethical procedure at every stage.

Are you a creative designer and critical thinker with a passion for architecture and creating a better world? In the Sustainable Architecture Master’s Programme, we reimagine the built environment to better answer to the diverse societal, cultural and environmental challenges the world is facing. You will do this together with other students, architects, and researchers in a vivid social community. Join us in building a more sustainable future!

Kingston University’s Sustainable Design MA will help you channel your creativity towards building a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable society. Studying this masters in Sustainable Design will give you the critical thinking skills and practical experience you need to succeed in further study or employment.

The Master of Building Performance and Sustainable Design will see you develop advanced technical, collaborative and cultural competencies to drive world-leading environmental outcomes in interdisciplinary teams and projects for a low-carbon built environment.

The new Master’s course in Design for Sustainability and Regeneration offers theoretical insights into current concepts and approaches for designing sustainable solutions, offering practical experience in applying strategies and tools of ecodesign and design for sustainability. It has been estimated that 80 percent of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage, So the designer needs proper tools and needs to be aware of the environmental risks or benefits of their choices and appropriate strategies to encourage design decisions that meet the need to produce to more sustainable standards, which are increasingly necessary and socially demanded.

With the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles introduced by the European Parliament, the fashion industry will be required to take bold steps towards sustainable design, production, distribution and communication processes.

You’ll be educated to become a designer in sustainable innovation and to develop the required skills to drive creativity in a multi-disciplinary team.

This program offers a studio-based, interdisciplinary approach to design, tackling societal challenges. Established and innovative design concepts are incorporated in a unique collaborative setup across campuses.

Critically analyse the challenges faced by urban areas in designing sustainable, inclusive, and healthy urban environments, evaluating the effectiveness of various mitigation strategies. Students taking this programme will be at the cutting edge of this transition toward a more sustainable planet.

In a world marked by uncertainty and complexity, design plays a key role, BAU’s Master in Design Research guides students in understanding and questioning the present and encourage them to create transformative proposals with creativity and a critical spirit.

The MA City Design envisions new concepts of city and urban life by placing design speculation at the core of social innovation. City life is undergoing momentous change. New forms of urban development and technologically driven forms of social innovation are transforming the way we live, work, reproduce and take care of the world around us, producing new lines of social solidarity as well as new sites of social conflict. Yet most of the methods used to research and design cities have resisted change, thus limiting our ability to perceive relevant changes and conceive radically different futures.

This program aims at providing a multidisciplinary background for architects, with a special focus on environmental sustainability and landscape design. The concept of sustainability is associated with a high-quality transformation of the landscape, from the macro-scale of urban planning to the micro-scale of technical details, how the varied scales connect and interrelate with each other.

The Master in Entrepreneurship and Design for Sustainability is your gateway to harnessing these prospects. This program fosters an entrepreneurial mindset that views sustainability as a powerful opportunity rather than a challenge. Through this Master’s program, you will learn to create, craft, and launch innovative ideas using cutting-edge design approaches.

For the award of the Master MSc degree it is required to successfully complete the program of studies that also includes the Thesis Research and the Advanced Project, as described in detail below. The minimum duration of the Master M.Sc. program for full-time students is three academic semesters.

The MSc in Design Thinking for Sustainability is a unique programme that bridges sustainability knowledge and skills, ensuring students begin to affect change within the programme and are ready to quickly transition to new roles and opportunities upon graduation.