Gain the knowledge needed to create a more sustainable future
Globally, we need to rise to the challenges of the climate crisis and create a more sustainable, equitable world. Our specialist master’s courses explore all aspects of sustainability including energy, sustainable resources, sustainable heritage, and environmental design and engineering.
Build your career creating a better future for people and the planet
96.6% of our graduates were in work or pursuing further study within 15 months of graduation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2021-22). Our alumni now work in fields including sustainable building design, engineering, heritage, energy and environmental policy, research, sustainable consultancy, and business. No matter your sustainability career goals, our degrees can help you reach them.
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We have master's degrees in environmental design, heritage, sustainable resources, and energy.
Make our buildings, towns and cities, healthier, more sustainable places to live. Gain the skills in sustainable building design and operation to help reshape the built environment, tackle the climate crisis and create spaces where people and the planet can thrive.
- Environmental Design and Engineering MSc - Learn to use innovative approaches and tools to design and engineer buildings that are both sustainable and efficient. These skills can be used in jobs in sustainable architecture, engineering and other built environment professions.
- Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering MSc - This building services engineering degree teaches you to utilise advanced modelling tools, data analysis, and machine learning to engineer smarter, more sustainable buildings that create healthier environments for occupants.
- 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 buildings, 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 for your career as a lighting professional working in the built environment.
Become a leader in preserving our past to enrich the future. Delve into sustainable solutions to cultural heritage problems through the lenses of heritage management, science and data science.For our Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage MSc we offer three specialist routes:
- Heritage Management - 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 are essential in modern society, including cultural heritage. This master’s degree trains expert data scientists, using cultural heritage as a multidisciplinary framework to learn and apply data science skills.
- Heritage Science - Highly trained practitioners are needed to apply scientific and technical expertise to cultural heritage challenges. You will explore a unique blend of disciplines—from physical sciences and engineering to imaging, computing, and social sciences—to tackle cultural heritage research questions.
We empower students to create sustainable transitions for people and planet. Gain expertise in the sustainable use of natural resources for you future career, whether in business, finance, policymaking or research.
- Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc - Gain a rigorous training in energy and environmental economics, policy, and modelling, along with specialised options. You’ll learn to analyse complex sustainability issues, preparing you to develop robust solutions in your future career in business, finance, policymaking or research.
- Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions MSc - Be equipped with the skills and knowledge for a career promoting efficient, circular, equitable and sustainable resource use. Our interdisciplinary curriculum explores the environmental, social, and economic aspects of managing resources from both policy and business perspectives.
- Business and Sustainability MSc - Learn how businesses can turn sustainability challenges into new opportunities and avenues for growth. Through research-led teaching on sustainability science, policy, and business, you’ll be equipped to lead with informed, responsible and sustainable decisions.
Smart Energy and the Built Environment MSc - Be at the forefront of the smart energy revolution by building resilience across the energy sector, enhancing energy security, and reducing costs for consumers. Gain expertise in physical, social, and data-driven approaches to transform energy production, supply, and consumption.
Energy Systems and Data Analytics MSc - Advanced analytics, fuelled by big data and massive computational power, has the potential to transform how energy systems are designed, operated and maintained. 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.