Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment MSc

<strong>The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2025). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas.</strong> <br/><br/>The MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment is a taught course addressing climate and development challenges through economics, finance, and science, equipping students to lead the transition to a zero-carbon, sustainable future.<br/><br/>The course addresses two pervasive and unmet challenges of our time: making the transition to a zero-carbon and environmentally sustainable economic model, whilst simultaneously enabling sustainable development for all. The MSc views these challenges through the lenses of finance, economics and enterprise – both public and private – whilst also leveraging the environmental, systems, and data sciences. <br/><br/>The MSc will equip current and future thought-leaders and decision-makers with the rigorous academic knowledge and applied skills needed to understand and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, environmentally sustainable economic model. <br/><br/>The objectives of the MSc are three-fold:<br/><br/><br/>• Develop a critical understanding of the nature, drivers and trajectories of climate change and economic development.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Examine the role of enterprise and its relationship to environmental and development challenges across a range of risks, technological innovations, investment opportunities and policy responses.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Enable students to integrate and apply their interdisciplinary knowledge, advanced methodological skills and science-policy-enterprise network to foster innovation and scalable progress toward net zero and sustainable development.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• The Programme Learning Outcomes of the MSc will equip students with knowledge, skills and networks to understand:<br/><br/><br/><br/>- the nature, science and trajectories of the net zero and sustainable development challenge (NZSD)<br/><br/><br/>- the scope and limits of innovation and the different roles of enterprise – public and private - in effective responses to NZSD<br/><br/><br/>- the data and methods required to measure progress to NZSD and attribute impact, and a critical appreciation of data<br/><br/><br/>- the economic frameworks, methods and tools to apply to measure the NZSD problem and accelerate progress towards it<br/><br/><br/>- the broad range of socio-technical drivers that can accelerate progress to NZSD<br/><br/><br/>- the theory and practice of sustainable finance and investment, and how to engage with sector stakeholders<br/><br/><br/>- the drivers reshaping economical social and environmental relationships<br/><br/><br/>- the scope for markets to spur conservation and investment.<br/><br/><br/>In addition, the course aims to equip graduates with a range of person and professional skills; in particular, leadership competencies.<br/><br/>The course caters for – and is intentionally designed for – a wide range of life and career stages: just-finished undergraduates, recent graduates and early- to mid-career professionals. It combines directed teaching, self-regulated learning, structured engagement, formal assessment, and regular interaction with practitioners.<br/><br/>The course objectives are addressed through ten core modules, two electives and a dissertation. <br/><br/><strong>For the full description, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas</strong>