Shape the future of sustainability

Environmental design and engineering courses

Are you interested in making our buildings, towns and cities better places to live in? Do you want to help make them more sustainable, healthier, more efficient and productive? Our master's degrees can take you there.

We pursue a deeper understanding of the interactions between the built environment and health, human wellbeing, productivity, energy use and climate change. We deliver interdisciplinary built environment research and teaching to help cities and governments adapt and transform to tackle the climate crisis, and create equitable and inclusive spaces where people can live healthy and fulfilling lives.​

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Environmental Design and Engineering MSc
We teach a new generation of experts to apply innovative and sustainable approaches for more efficient building design and operation through integrated design and engineering.

Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering MSc
This degree explores how digital engineering can create smarter buildings that are better for their occupants and the environment. Join a new generation of leaders innovating the engineering, design and operation of integrated building systems.

Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc
Designed to meet the growing demand for specialists to drive the health and wellbeing agenda in the design, assessment, retrofit and operation of sustainable buildingsm, this Master's equips you with the skills, knowledge and networks needed to advance sustainable innovation for health and wellbeing in the built environment.

Light and Lighting MSc
We bring together the technical and creative sides of lighting design, to offer an extensive package of knowledge and skills that are employed across the lighting industry and built environment. You will learn to design lighting as an integrated component of architecture, utilising exciting advances in science and technology whilst taking into consideration human responses to the lit environment.

Sustainable heritage courses

Everybody has a stake in cultural heritage. Our vision is a world that engages with heritage, appreciates its values and participates fully in its protection.

We deliver sustainable solutions to real-world cultural heritage problems through ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary research and innovative teaching for future heritage leaders. We offer three sustainble heritage degree routes to train a new generation of heritage practitioners with specialist expertise in Heritage Science, Heritage Management and Data Science.

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For our Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage MSc we offer three specialist routes:

Heritage Management
Designed for a new generation of heritage leaders, the Heritage Management route of the Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage MSc will provide you with  the interdisciplinary skills needed to deliver the heritage programmes and projects of the future. You will learn the latest in heritage management policies, projects, methodologies and practices in the context of historic buildings, sites, landscapes, museums and collections.

Data Science
Digital technologies and data have a fundamental role in contemporary society, and cultural heritage is no exception. From historic buildings, sites, landscapes, museums and collections, the world of heritage provides an exciting setting to learn and apply data science skills. The Data Science route of Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage MSc will create expert data scientists taught through the exciting multidisciplinary lens of cultural heritage.

Heritage Science
There is a need for highly trained practitioners with the ability to apply rigorous scientific and technical knowledge to solve cultural heritage challenges. The Heritage Science route of the Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage MSc will introduce you to a unique assembly of scientific disciplines. With access to world-leading scientific facilities, you will learn a range of analytical techniques and scientific methods and apply them to real-world heritage challenges.

Energy courses

Do you want to join a class of future energy innovators? Energy security and climate change have never been such pressing global issues as they are today. From data analytics and smart energy to environmental economics and policy, our master’s degrees equip graduates with the tools needed to succeed in a career in energy industry, academia or policy, transforming the way our energy is generated, supplied and used.

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Smart Energy and the Built Environment MSc
To reduce carbon emissions and transform global energy systems a new relationship is required between how we produce, supply and consume energy in our buildings. Smart energy technologies and services are central to this transformation, ensuring resilience and security of supply and controlling costs. This MSc will train you to be at the forefront of the smart energy revolution and lead the transformation to a sustainable global energy system.

Energy Systems and Data Analytics MSc
This MSc provides an academically leading and industrially relevant study of energy systems through the lens of data analytics. Advanced analytics, fuelled by big data and massive computational power, has the potential to transform how energy systems are designed, operated and maintained. You will gain the skills and knowledge to unlock the transformative potential of big energy data and understand how it can reshape the energy sector.

Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc
The world faces huge challenges from climate change and environmental damage. Our economies and our energy systems need to transform. We need highly qualified professionals with the expertise to analyse these complex inter-related issues, and to evaluate solutions. UCL's Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc trains you in the economics, policy, and modelling skills that you need to be part of the global solution.

Sustainable resources courses

To meet net-zero targets, reduce waste and combat pollution wholesale change is needed in the way we consume natural resources. For such a change to happen, policy-makers, business and communities around the world need to be engaged. From circular economy and resource efficiency to planetary economics and business sustainability, we train future sustainability leaders with the knowledge and tools to drive this change.

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Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc
The world faces huge challenges from climate change and environmental damage. Our economies and our energy systems need to transform. We need highly qualified professionals with the expertise to analyse these complex inter-related issues, and to evaluate solutions. UCL's Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc trains you in the economics, policy, and modelling skills that you need to be part of the global solution.

Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions MSc
In the face of global environmental challenges, societies, businesses and policymakers alike need to rethink how we can use our natural resources sustainably. UCL's Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions MSc investigates the circular economy, resource efficiency and sustainable resource management. You will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to drive change and become the sustainability leaders of tomorrow.

Business and Sustainability MSc
Becoming environmentally, socially and economically sustainable is an imperative for businesses of all shapes and sizes. UCL’s Business and Sustainability MSc explores how businesses can turn sustainability challenges into new opportunities and avenues for growth. You will participate in research-led, applied teaching on sustainability science, policy and business practice, empowering you to be sustainability leaders making informed decisions and taking responsible actions for people, planet and profit, now and in the future.