24 monthsProgramme duration
23,300 EURTuition Fee/year
Sep, FebStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Social Policy and Administration
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This programme offers a highly immersive, transdisciplinary approach to tackling urgent environmental challenges that goes beyond traditional learning. Regardless of your academic background, be it Biology, Public Administration, International Relations or something completely different, we welcome your perspective!
On your path to becoming a change agent, you will learn how to integrate governance and environmental science perspectives and do this in a transdisciplinary manner, by collaborating with non-academic actors in policy and practice. This will enable you to co-create solutions to real-world sustainability issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, water management, and circular economy. Courses are co-created by an interdisciplinary teacher team, and mostly co-taught. This results in lively discussions and in-class integration of multiple perspectives. Are you eager to learn how governance can be a solution to, but also a driver of complex environmental challenges? Are you passionate about fostering a more inclusive, just and sustainable world? Are you excited at the prospect of working together with students coming from different academic and cultural backgrounds? Then this master's is the right fit for you.
Read more about Governance of Sustainability on the Leiden University website
Programme overview
Main Subject
Social Policy and Administration
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This programme offers a highly immersive, transdisciplinary approach to tackling urgent environmental challenges that goes beyond traditional learning. Regardless of your academic background, be it Biology, Public Administration, International Relations or something completely different, we welcome your perspective!
On your path to becoming a change agent, you will learn how to integrate governance and environmental science perspectives and do this in a transdisciplinary manner, by collaborating with non-academic actors in policy and practice. This will enable you to co-create solutions to real-world sustainability issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, water management, and circular economy. Courses are co-created by an interdisciplinary teacher team, and mostly co-taught. This results in lively discussions and in-class integration of multiple perspectives. Are you eager to learn how governance can be a solution to, but also a driver of complex environmental challenges? Are you passionate about fostering a more inclusive, just and sustainable world? Are you excited at the prospect of working together with students coming from different academic and cultural backgrounds? Then this master's is the right fit for you.
Read more about Governance of Sustainability on the Leiden University website
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Frequently Asked Questions
After completing the programme, you are able to analyse and create strategies in which you align the environmental sustainability and governance perspective. Incorporating the knowledge of practitioners. You can develop and implement solutions to complex sustainability issues. You will have acquired a wide variety of skills, including qualitative and quantitative research skills, and transferable skills. A few examples: you will be able to,
- collaborate in a team with a diverse academic and cultural background
- convincingly communicate results to both specialists and a non-specialist audience
- execute integrative projects (design, organise, execute, analyse and report)
- carry out in-depth research on sustainability issues
- operate in an international context
The programme follows three learning lines: environmental sustainability, governance and skills. In year one, you take courses consecutively, covering four environmental themes and two skills courses. This prepares you for the 2nd-year Sustainability Challenge and Thesis. In this year, you will also follow a Quantitative Research Skills course and have 12 ECTS to pick courses of interest to you, allowing you to tailor the degree to your personal interests.
The programme prepares you for careers mainly in consultancy, (semi-) governmental organisations, corporate , or research, equipping you with the knowledge and skill set highly valued in today’s job market.
- Consultant
- Policy officer and advisor
- Project leader, manager and coordinator
- PhD or positions at research institutes
English language requirements: IELTS 6.5, Minimum overall score of 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 for each of the components Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking; TOEFL internet-based 90, Internet based 90 (minimum 20 component score); Cambridge English 180, Cambridge English Exam C2 Proficiency, or C1 Advanced with an overall score of 180, with a minimum of 169 for each individual subsection; Cambridge English 180, Cambridge English Exam C2 Proficiency, or C1 Advanced with an overall score of 180, with a minimum of 169 for each individual subsection.
Depending on the individual study programme, it can lead to study delay.
- Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS)
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