Graduate programs

Advance your skills by exploring the connection between biology and design, engineering, business and sustainability. By using biomimicry principles, you can implement creative solutions to human problems. Join a network of researchers and practitioners who are transcending traditional academic and institutional boundaries.

Grow your knowledge of coastal and marine ecosystems, including the complex interactions between people, resources, and systems for our future oceans and the communities that depend on them.

Explore how complex systems shape everything from artificial intelligence and climate to health care and global supply chains. This degree teaches you to build advanced computational models and turn data into solutions that make a difference across industries.

Turn your passion for conservation into career-ready expertise. Gain hands-on experience in environmental management, innovation and leadership while engaging with interdisciplinary approaches and solutions to our future’s most pressing conservation challenges.

Become the leader conservation needs now. Gain skills necessary to lead conservation projects and organizations, while exploring innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and solutions to our future’s most pressing conservation challenges.

Turn your passion for the protection of wildlife, plants and ecosystems into career-ready expertise. Gain hands-on experience in conservation science and environmental management while exploring interdisciplinary approaches and solutions to our future’s most pressing conservation challenges.

How do we bridge deep global inequalities? What is the role of technology in meeting societies’ needs? What should be the future of technology innovation to ensure greater good? You can address these questions by exploring history, social science concepts, government policies and development projects from around the world.

The Applied International Development Concentration in the MS in Global Technology and Development program offers the working professional in international development a flexible curriculum that meets their needs and relates immediately to work in the field.

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefits society? Join us in this groundbreaking new program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

Are you an experienced working professional who wants to drive high-impact, transformative sustainability results for your company, organization, government agency, community or career? This degree was established thanks to an investment by the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.

Lead organizations through environmental, social and economic challenges with this sustainability leadership degree. You’ll combine sustainability science with systems thinking, leadership and organizational strategy, building the expertise to influence decisions and create lasting value for communities and the planet.

Do you want to learn how to implement sustainability initiatives? This program allows you to combine foundational sustainability courses with electives in your area of interest and practical experience.

Explore complex sustainability challenges by connecting environmental knowledge with social science, policy and community engagement. This degree builds the leadership, communication and systems thinking skills you need to work across sectors and help create more resilient futures.

Investigate complex environmental, social and economic challenges through a sustainability degree grounded in interdisciplinary science. You can build advanced analytical, research and systems thinking skills, then work with faculty to generate evidence-based solutions that inform policy and guide organizations.

Access to fresh, healthy food is a basic human need, and feeding a growing population of nine billion is a real challenge in the face of climate change. With this degree, you can help create a more just and resilient global future for food.

The PhD program in applied mathematics for the life and social sciences focuses on the training needed for analyzing and more definitively answering questions about underlying patterns hidden within human health, behaviors and experiences, and for teaching others to do the same.

Do you find yourself contemplating how complex human and natural systems are, and the many ways that people and nature are interconnected and influence each other? In the Complex Adaptive Systems Science, PhD  you can become an advocate and leader for a new kind of science that enables you to gain a better understanding of those complexities, with the potential to positively transform society.

Study how science, technology and innovation shape communities, institutions and public policy in this human and social dimensions of science and technology degree. You’ll build the research expertise to generate scholarship that supports more responsible and sustainable futures.

Do you want to make an impact on issues facing humanity around the world? Are you interested in exploring an expansive view of the successes and failures of global development approaches? Reimagine pathways to future development and bring about transformative change in society.

Collaborate across scientific disciplines and alongside partners in government, nonprofit organizations, industry and coastal communities in this Ocean Futures, PhD program. Together, you’ll generate research that shapes conservation, sound policy and sustainable ocean management.

Generate new knowledge through faculty-mentored research, systems thinking and collaboration across disciplines, influencing policy, organizations and communities. Shape more resilient, sustainable futures as you pursue this Sustainability, PhD degree.

Research and develop solutions to sustainability challenges and serve as a bridge between disciplines in the development of these solutions. Learn from leading scientists and scholars in this flexible, interdisciplinary program that focuses on both sustainability and complex adaptive systems.

Through the  Sustainable Energy, PhD program, learn how to develop transdisciplinary solutions that guide society toward a sustainable energy future. Receive training from leading sustainability scientists and scholars in this flexible, interdisciplinary program that integrates social, environmental and technical knowledge of energy systems.