MSc Global Sustainability Solutions at University of Exeter

If you are passionate about creating a more sustainable world, join us on your journey by addressing global sustainability challenges and exploring solutions to these in a wide variety of environments and contexts. You will learn together with students from different disciplines and backgrounds to apply your different perspectives, insights and passions to begin to understand and address the very real challenges facing our planet. Explore how systems thinking can be applied to a range of social, economic and environmental issues and begin to understand the interconnections and behaviours of different systems.

Duration: 1 year full time; 2 years part time  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Exeter, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Our impacts on the Earth system are at such a scale that we have become a geological force. If we are to not just survive but to flourish, we urgently need to create robust and practical solutions to a set of interacting and complex These challenges span countries, regions, and academic disciplines. For example: the challenge to establish food, water, and energy security for a global population increasing towards nine billion by the middle of this century; the urgent need to halt the rapid decline in biodiversity; or the required decrease of greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid dangerous climate change.

Career pathways

There is increasing demand for sustainability professionals in commercial, private and third sector organisations. GSS graduates have pursued careers in a variety of roles including: available to demonstrate a few different companies and roles that our alumni have gone to, but the variety for each cohort is huge, depending on each student’s passion and preferred career path.

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