Science for Sustainable Societies Leiden University

Overview

How do you involve a local community to tackle biodiversity loss? How do you create awareness and political movement on climate change? And how do you find a balance between environmental impacts and economic needs when it comes to pollution? These are examples of core questions at the heart of a new and interdisciplinary Bachelor: Science for Sustainable Societies . Within this programme you learn to combine natural and social science insights and methods, to help you understand and address complex sustainability challenges such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss in the context of human systems.

What you will learn

The three-year bachelor's programme Science for Sustainable Societies provides you with the knowledge, skills and mind-set to analyse complex sustainability challenges, combining and integrating insights from natural and social sciences. Besides academic knowledge and skills, you will also be trained in transferable skills such as collaborating, project management, presenting, programming, data analysis, interviewing, and many more. Your academic and professional abilities prepare you for many different master's programmes and provide you with a great foundation for entering the job market.

Career prospects

Graduates of this bachelor programme earn the title of Bachelor of Science (BSc) and are eligible for various master's programmes at Leiden University or other universities around the world. Science for Sustainable Societies guarantees entry to the MSc Industrial Ecology (Leiden University and Delft University of Technology) and the MSc Governance of Sustainability (Leiden University).

Once you have successfully completed your master's programme, you will have earned the title of Master of Science (MSc). A master’s degree will increase your chances of finding a job or academic level position.

The Science for Sustainable Societies programme offers a broad range of future employment prospects in areas such as government bodies, NGO’s, universities and research institutes, as well as in the private sector, for instance in consultancy.

Examples of jobs

• Sustainability policy advisor
• Sustainability consultant
• Sustainability strategic advisor