Sustainability Graduate/Professional Certificate at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Programme overview

The graduate certificate in sustainability provides students with the opportunity to customize their graduate experience, adding sustainability training to any graduate degree program offered at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Graduate students can complete the sustainability certificate by selecting courses that meet both their degree and Sustainability requirements. As such, most students can add the sustainability certificate on to a degree without any additional time or cost.

Department: Environmental Studies | Study mode: full-time | Location: Madison, WI, United States

What you will study

Courses listed in the requirements include ENVIR ST 812 Sustainability Capstone; A A E 643 Foundations of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; R M I 650 Sustainability, Environmental and Social Risk Management; REAL EST 651 Green - Sustainable Development; OTM 770 Sustainable Approaches to System Improvement; ENVIR ST 977 Sustainable Development - Integral Perspective.

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Application information

Entry requirements

The Sustainability certificate welcomes applications from students in any graduate degree program at UW-Madison that allows students to pursue a certificate. Students may apply to the certificate program concurrently with their graduate school application or once they have matriculated at UW-Madison. Acceptance into the certificate program is contingent on enrollment in a graduate degree program. How to Apply All Graduate School students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any graduate/professional certificate. To apply to this certificate, log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. Select the information for the certificate for which you are applying.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

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