Sustainability

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Foreign:$ 28 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 30, 2025
51 place StudyQA ranking:2447 Duration:2 years

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By tackling key global issues, the Master of Sustainability will equip you to further your career in diverse areas from environmental science to finance, from law to urban planning, and from sustainable building design to public health. You’ll learn about energy conservation, population health, food security, sustainability policy, and sustainability analysis tools.
In this one-and-a-half-year postgraduate course you will boost your education with an understanding of complex sustainability challenges and discover tools to measure, report on and identify solutions to these challenges. 
The Master of Sustainability builds on the Graduate Diploma with a capstone experience that will put you to work in teams to research current sustainability problems in collaboration with industry (including your own job, if appropriate), aiming to deliver sustainable solutions to the industry partners.
Offering excellent flexibility, the sustainability program lets you tailor your subjects to suit your background and career interests. First, you will build a foundation in sustainability, with core units including health and population, energy and resources, food and water security, policy and governance, social change, and sustainability analysis tools. Then, you will broaden your study of sustainability by choosing your electives across a range of areas or focus on one aspect by choosing related electives and designing your Masters course capstone project in that area. 
By joining the sustainability program at the University of Sydney, you will be part of a truly multidisciplinary experience. Six faculties across the University deliver core content, and nine faculties teaching into the program’s electives. You will be guided by the University’s experts, who are leaders in their fields internationally, and also from industry professionals, who partner with the program as guest speakers and mentors to provide insight into a range of workplaces.
You will gain both a theoretical understanding and applied skills to connect sustainability processes to specific areas of business, development, health and policy, among others. With this new understanding of sustainability, you’ll have the tools to change your approach to your current work or embark on an entirely new career.

The core units of study in the Sustainability program are:

Unit code Unit name When Mode Unit type
SUST5001 Introduction to Sustainability Semester 1, Semester 2 Weekly classes Core
SUST5002 Food and Water Security Semester 2 Weekly classes Optional core
SUST5003 Energy and Resources Semester 1 Weekly classes Optional core
SUST5004 Populations and Health Semester 2 Weekly classes (alternating workshops and online tutorials) Optional core
SUST5005 Policy and Sustainability Semester 2 Intensive Optional core
SUST5006 Sustainability: Business and Leadership Semester 1 Weekly classes Optional core
PHYS5031 Ecological Economics and Sustainability Analysis Semester 1 Weekly classes Optional core
SUST5007-9* Capstone research project Semester 1, Semester 2 Self-organised meetings with mentor Core*
  • IELTS: A minimum result of 6.5 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band TOEFL paper-based: A minimum result of 565 overall including a minimum result of 4.5 in Writing TOEFL IBT: A minimum result of 85 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing
  • The equivalent of an Australian bachelor’s degree

Scholarships

  •  Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship
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