72 Sustainable Design Degree Programs

Our built environment consumes the majority of the energy and resources we use as a society. The Online Master of Design Studies in Sustainable Design is a 4-semester degree program that teaches students the current practices, processes, and materials with which a sustainable built environment can be realized.

The Sustainable Fashion Summer Course gives you the techniques and tools you need to make a fashion brand, its products, design processes, marketing, management and the materials it uses, truly sustainable. It’s a fundamental theme for the industry and involves every stage of the product life cycle: design, the purchasing of materials, production, logistics, product use and end of life.

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.

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.

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 Sustainable Design School at Nice/France is the only institution of higher education worldwide relating Design systematically to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations. We teach our students to act for human beings and for the planet, using the design process to serve sustainable innovation. Our alumni understand that the call for the sustainable transition is a global issue and gathers the full commitment of creative minds from different backgrounds.

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.

Make a real world impact. Focus through a wide–whole systems thinking–lens that prioritizes people and the natural environment. Leverage sustainable design theory, practice, processes, and materials across disciplines to build an interdisciplinary portfolio that prioritizes sustainability.

Application design thinking to make sustainability compelling, impactful and realizable. Analysis of contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to promote sustainable design of products and environments by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, and health. Includes Studio project work in prototyping, modeling, testing, and realizing sustainable design ideas.

Environmental design focuses on creating spaces for people, encompassing architecture, urban planning, retail environments, landscape, and interior design. In this program, you’ll develop skills in research, analysis, design, and presentation. Graduates often continue their studies at the master’s level.

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 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) programme leads to either an MArch (16 months) or MSc (12 months) degree. SED engages with real-life projects and problems that affect living, work and climate change in every city and built environment. The course is research-led, evidence-based and practice-oriented: students undertake collaborative group research and individual thesis projects that contribute to a carbon-neutral future and promote inhabitant comfort, health and wellbeing.

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.

The Master’s Degree “Designer in Sustainable Innovation” at BESIGN The Sustainable Design School trains a new generation of designers capable of creating global, sustainable solutions with a positive impact on both people and the planet.

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.

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.