Sustainability Management (Water) - Master of Environmental Studies (MES)

Gain deeper, advanced knowledge on a specific area related to the field of sustainability management while discovering innovative ways to tackle global water challenges with the Master of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management Collaborative Water program.

As a future sustainability innovator, you’ll gain interdisciplinary research skills, management approaches, strategies, and processes to realize sustainable outcomes within business, government and not-for-profit organizations and others.  

Along with developing expertise in your area of research, two interdisciplinary water courses will capture both theoretical and practical components, including in-class lectures, fieldwork, interdisciplinary group work, and individual research seminars.

A broad range of courses covers a spectrum of topics in sustainable development, environment, management and innovation, with elective courses available from other graduate programs in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) and in other departments at Waterloo. Sustainability Management MES graduates work as consultants, program managers, junior analysts, and many other positions that utilize the skills they developed in the program.