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PhD Human Behavior and Sustainability Sciences at Northeastern University

Northeastern University, United States

Programme overview

The persistent failure to integrate the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences with ecological and geophysical sciences is a critical friction point reducing the viability and effectiveness of sustainability solutions. Therefore, a degree program that combines training in psychology with the ecological and geophysical sciences produces boundary-breaking scholars who can accelerate sustainability solutions that are robustly informed by the results of scientific research. Offered at: Boston.

Faculty: College of Science  |  Department: Marine Environmental Sciences  |  Duration: 34 semester hours  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Boston, MA, United States

What you will study

Requires 34 semester hours. Required courses include ENVR 5410 Human Behavior and Sustainability; PSYC 8410 Special Topics in Human Behavior and Sustainability; EEMB 8103 Readings in Sustainability Sciences.

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Application information

USD 49,257 a year (2026-27). Annual PhD fee stated as one rate for all PhD programs (2026-27 graduate schedule). Excludes comprehensive fee, health and counseling fee, international student fee and student health plan. Source

Duration: 34 semester hours

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