Sustainable Development, Management and Policy

Be an influencer for future global challenges. Guided by expert faculty, students come to understand that effective implementation of sustainability strategies is a fundamental societal, economic, and environmental need. MU's prioritization of sustainability as an integral part of the university offers unique opportunities for students to gain hands-on learning experience.

Become an agent of change. The program is training a new generation of professionals who can confidently respond to future global sustainability challenges. Topics include stakeholder-specific implementation; public, private, and third sector implications; policy and governance-related issues; environmental and sustainable management issues, and economic development issues. 

Expand your knowledge with a specialization. Optional specializations offer students the flexibility to acquire a deeper insight into areas such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership, Innovation and Experience Design for Tourism, Sustainable Management and Governance, or Tourism and Services Management. In addition, students can take advantage of integrating a customized internship into their curriculum.

We challenge you to link theory with practice. Our students gain confidence through lively classroom debates and simulations which help remove sustainability from symbolic frames, challenging students to link theory directly with practice. Graduates will be ready to adapt skills learned both in and out of the classroom to future career challenges.

Key Facts

• Among the world’s 25 top performing universities in top-cited publications (U-Multirank)
• Multidisciplinary context, unique curriculum, and customized research opportunities 
• Emphasis on critical thinking, collaborative learning, and addressing 21st-century challenges
• Exposure to emerging eco-friendly conceptual tools and management skills
• Small class sizes taught by key experts
• Globally-oriented university environment with English as the instruction language
• Graduates ready to fill in-demand positions in a wide variety of public and private organizations
• Unique network of startups, industry partners and investors at the MU Startup Hub

Learn to analyze complex interrelationships. The program challenges its students to consider a wide spectrum of sustainability issues, with special attention given to their often complex interrelationships. Students learn the skills needed to design and implement sustainable development strategies on household, business, city, regional, and national levels. 

Sustainability from a multidisciplinary view. The program invites students from diverse backgrounds to explore sustainability through a multidisciplinary lens. It builds a high level of expertise among its graduates for analyzing conditions and problems related to sustainability and for effective solution design. Students are provided with a solid multidisciplinary background that draws on material from various fields including economics, governance, social psychology, environmental sciences, geography, and management.

Tailor-made education for your next career steps. Students from diverse academic and professional backgrounds are welcome in MU's Sustainable Development, Management, and Policy program. Current SDMP students have backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, IT, and business. The MU admissions team counsels students from non-traditional backgrounds on what courses they might need to take in order to succeed in the MSc program.