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Sustainability is at the strategic center of nearly every business. Through our Business and Innovation degree track, you’ll examine the core of business foundations with a deep understanding that sustainable practice is best practice, and all aspects of innovation must consider the reality of climate change. Coursework emphasizes global business and management – honing skills that make the sustainability-minded business professionals of the future.

Managing the natural environment sustainably is the bedrock of any society. Through our Ecology and Resource Management degree track, you will explore options for managing, conserving and utilizing our natural resources in a way that does not jeopardize the well-being of future generations. Graduates take on roles managing natural resources in the public sector, the corporate world and in NGOs – whether in the wilderness, rural or urban environments.

Creating a more sustainable, livable city requires a deep understanding of the interconnected systems that meet the needs of the current urban populations without compromising factors like mobility, health and safety. Through our Urban and Energy Systems degree track, you'll examine these systems – water and energy, local food, transportation and sustainable community development – to drive more resilient and equitable futures.

Chatham Master of Sustainability and MSUS + MBA dual degree students have access to scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, research, conference and travel stipends, paid internships, work and other opportunities. Two full and three partial scholarships are available on a competitive basis to full-time students. The Coverdell Fellows Program for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers provides up to five (5) Coverdell Fellowships (25% tuition) each year. Approximately ten graduate assistant positions ($5,000 per year) offer the opportunity to work with a faculty member in their ongoing research. Each year, five currently enrolled graduate students will receive a $5,000 grant to carry out their own summer research or community development activities in the broad field of sustainability.

Qualified applicants from partner universities — Slippery Rock University, Indiana University Pennsylvania, Washington and Jefferson University, Davis and Elkins University — receive a 20 percent tuition discount.

A senior administrator with extensive career placement experience works directly with Falk School of Sustainability & Environment, helping all graduate students develop a personalized career plan as soon as they begin the Master of Sustainability and MSUS + MBA dual degree program. The career office maintains an extensive list of available internships, projects and full-time career positions, and brings corporate sustainability officers, and other speakers to campus to discuss hiring needs.

Opportunities exist for students to pursue collaboration with international partners in Scandinavia, South Asia and the Caribbean. Two all-expense paid awards allow graduate students to participate in a student exchange in Norway and India, to be completed during the fall term of their second year in the program (August-December). The semester abroad begins at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Trondheim, Norway, where students will participate in the master’s program in Urban Ecological Planning (UEP). They will then travel to India for 6-8 weeks, to attend lectures and begin data-based investigations/fieldwork with students from SPA-Delhi and network partner VNIT-Nagpur. They will present this data analysis at a national seminar with stakeholders before traveling back to Norway to write their final reports. Students also study abroad at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica in partnership with the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT). During their time abroad, Students will focus on projects to enhance the protection and management of Jamaica’s largest and only terrestrial national park, the Blue and John Crow Mountains. They’re encouraged to apply this experience towards their theses.