78 Sustainable Development Master's Degree Programs

This Master's programme equips you with the tools to lead change that contributes to a sustainable society while strengthening your own organisation. You'll work with examples ranging from products and systems to organisations and societal levels. Gain practical and research-based tools to build sustainable collaborations and create direction in uncertain situations.

Master in Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development that explores the legislative, regulatory, organizational, and managerial foundations of a modern Public Procurement System. The program is designed as a blended learning opportunity that combines policy/theory prescriptions with applied assignments and research work. It provides participants with direct access to expertise from academia, international organizations, think tanks, and the private sector. It prepares them for a range of executive and managerial functions connected with public procurement management and its supervision.

The Masters Sustainable futures and urban change is located at the critical intersection of development, environment and urban transformations. In a multidisciplinary approach, we invite students to examine emerging problems that require urgent and complex policy interventions. Understanding these critical junctures is a precondition for re-articulating the relations between society and the environment in a new politics of sustainable development. Placing the development-environment nexus in an urban context, this program examines recent developments in the field of sustainability and resilience.

Do you want to gain the knowledge and skills required to deal with complex sustainable development challenges? Then this is the perfect programme for you.

The Master's Degree in Environmental Economics, Work and Sustainable Development aims to provide advanced knowledge in the fields of sustainable management of economic activities, promotion of virtuous processes of economic development in both industrialized and developing countries.

Explore leadership for sustainable change with a International Master’s Programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development – Sociology. Gain critical tools to analyze social systems, manage transformation, and drive sustainable development in diverse and complex societies.

The Master's degree in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development offers a solid preparation in environmental economics, a critical understanding of the economics of sustainable development, and of the complex interactions between economic decisions, market forces, governmental policies, and the environment.

This two-year Master’s programme provides analytical tools and theoretical and methodological knowledge in the social sciences, specialising in the leadership and management of activities that encourage the transformation to sustainable societal development.

The perfect combination of academic training and real practice in companies: The Master in Sustainable Development Management is an official postgraduate degree adapted to the European Higher Education Area. Our objective is to train versatile professionals in the field of business and public management of sustainability.

Lead change for a sustainable future with this International Master's Programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development – Economics. Develop critical, creative solutions to global challenges, grounded in social science and economic insight. Gain the tools to drive societal transformation with impact.

The Master's in Sustainable Energy Systems comprises integrated study in the fields of energy technologies, the environment, and sustainable development. A multi- and cross-disciplinary approach is adopted to energy and environmental problems, their solutions and the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development.

The Master's Degree Course in Valorization and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas, taught in English, aims to form professionals who are capable of promoting the enhancement, development and sustainable management of mountain territories, by applying innovative approaches and a systemic vision. Multidisciplinary training will integrate environmental and agroforestry knowledge with proficiency in the economic, legal, historical-geographical and communication skills necessary to clearly delineate the specifics of mountain territories.

With a global faculty and participants, the Master in Social Innovation for Sustainable Development will challenge your beliefs and notions of social innovation to develop a new understanding of its principles and tools. Global development trends show that social exclusion, youth unemployment, migration, climate change, ageing society are escalating. By recognizing how social innovation goes beyond technology and current beliefs, you will explore the implications of different models. 

Master of Arts in Forestry for Green Sustainable Development. The future forests offer many possibilities. This two-year program gives knowledge about how different strategies and forest management systems can provide forest ecosystem services for society in the future.

The LL.M. in Law and Sustainable Development, entirely taught in English, aims at educating professionals capable of using their advanced legal knowledge and skills, integrated with an understanding of the underlying socio-economic issues, to further the realization of the SDGs in the activities of public and private organizations, at the international, national, and local level.

This Master’s programme is ideal if your goal is to become an expert in sustainable food systems and strive to take on challenges throughout the food chain.

The Economics Innovation for Sustainable Development program is a joint master's degree in economics promoted by the Université Côte d'Azur and the University of Turin. This leverages skills while requiring a combination of new competencies to support the governance of future innovation projects.