26 Sustainable Economic Studies Degree Programs

Achieve long-term growth when you integrate environmental, social, and governance factors into your investment decision-making.

Explore the benefits of sustainable finance systems and develop a plan for creating a sustainable economy with long-term value returns. In today’s business landscape, it’s no longer sufficient for organizations to simply acknowledge global sustainability challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and inequality – they’re expected to lead the way through them. The Sustainable Finance online short course from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) offers the tools and insights needed to develop financial strategies that create value for society and invest in a sustainable future. Over eight weeks, you’ll learn about the pressures, trends, and opportunities in the current financial system. You’ll also investigate the strategic business implications of social and environmental challenges, and discover how best to plan for the future through sustainable initiatives like impact investing, the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, and positive screening.

The program equips students with the skills to tackle issues such as resource scarcity, energy challenges, sustainable production, circular economies, and the socio-political aspects of sustainability. The curriculum covers topics like renewable and non-renewable resource economics, environmental economics, sustainable technologies, energy storage, carbon neutrality, waste valorization, and sustainability strategies for businesses.

The MSc in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions is designed to help students understand how to manage and develop sustainable resources in a changing world. Globally we are unsustainably using our natural resources, causing major environmental, social and political challenges. This sustainability master’s degree equips you with the skills and knowledge for a career driving change across business and policy, promoting efficient, circular, equitable and sustainable resource use. Our interdisciplinary curriculum focuses on the environmental, social, and economic aspects of managing resources from public policy and business perspectives.

The objective of the Master’s programme Sustainable Financial Economics is to prepare a specialist at a top or higher level in macro-finance (financial economics) capable of properly evaluating, shaping, and realising business financial assets policy and strategic objectives, creating development concepts, and implementing them, taking into account modern requirements for sustainable development and social responsibility.

The master's degree course in Economics Institutions Sustainability (EIS), thought both in ENGLISH AND ITALIAN, trains experts in the analysis of complex economic systems and the decision-making processes that influence them, with a focus on economic, environmental and social sustainability.

The MSc SIA offers top-level training in the analysis of the economic, social and environmental impact of economic decisions, infrastructure projects and public policies, in the context of the transformation of our society towards sustainable development. It enables students to acquire the most effective and rigorous impact assessment tools and methods, based on the most recent developments in academic research and field experience.

Take the next step in your career with Frankfurt School of Finance & Management’s Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance online programme. This flexible programme helps you strengthen your leadership skills while gaining deep expertise in sustainable finance. You can choose to focus your studies on Green Finance or Development Finance, aligning your education with your professional goals. You do not need to choose between your studies and your job because this programme allows you to successfully do both.

Reflecting sustainability criteria, especially climate change, in financial markets is increasingly gaining attention as opportunities and risks arising in this context are changing business practices. The course will prepare participants to understand major drivers and constraints of transforming the financial system into a more sustainable one. Furthermore, it will familiarize participants with the business, regulatory, and technical perspective of sustainable finance and will acquaint them to take an active part in the discussion around the topic. The course aims to enable financial professionals to integrate Sustainable Finance related aspects into their work through new knowledge and tools for advising their clients and business partners.

The MSc, Master of Science in Circular Economy & Sustainable innovation aims to train professionals in the circular economy capable of defining a strategy for transforming the business model of a company or an organization by proposing innovative and sustainable solutions, in accordance with the concepts and challenges of the circular economy. The program develops the necessary skills for the successful completion of activities related to the targeted positions (CE consultant, CE project manager).

The master program “Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy" is a four-semester program and requires 120 ECTS points to obtain a degree.

Innovation creates new opportunities that lead to sustainable economic growth and can help tackle serious societal problems relating to sustainability, climate change and health. During our two-year Innovation Sciences Master’s programme, you will learn how to transform new ideas into marketable innovations, and how to manage and promote innovation processes within companies as well as in society at large.

Are you interested in analyzing and solving financial problems in investment and business? Are you compelled by the ways in which sustainability issues are changing our understanding of the concept of finance? Do you want to know more about the interdependence between finance and sustainability? Then the specialization in Sustainable Finance could be right for you. As part of the master's program in International Business, the specialization combines finance with the principles of sustainability: environment, society, and governance.

The Faculty of Management and Business at the University of Prešov is pleased to offer an academically rigorous and forward-looking Master’s degree programme: Economy and Management in Sustainable Innovative Industry. Delivered entirely in English, the programme is designed to equip students with the comprehensive knowledge and practical competences required to navigate and lead the transition toward sustainability and innovation in modern industrial and business environments.

The Master’s degree in Sustainable Chemistry and Technologies for Circular Economy provides an extensive and highly interdisciplinary training program for professionals to be employed in companies or public bodies applying a circular economy model to production and services. Students will be trained on the whole value chain underlying a circular economy model, though a strong focus will be given chiefly to techno-scientific skills and competencies.

The Master in Sustainability and Circular Bioeconomy Management aims to prepare professionals and companies to understand the benefits of circular economy and contribute directly to it by transforming existing businesses, creating sustainable products, and setting sustainable development goals.