The programme aims at students committed to engage in the wide nexus of sustainability. By focusing on normative as well as transformative aspects of sustainability, the study programme links the current state of the art of research with practical implementation of sustainability. Rooted in a wide array of disciplines and aiming at their joint focus on the “great transformation”, students are educated to foster and facilitate sustainable development in all its relevant aspects. Typical fields for future jobs include sustainability assessments and further development of implementing transformation across scales, including governmental, social, economical and ecological aspects.

Due to the internationality of the double-degree Masters Programme, the students acquire extensive intercultural, collaborative, and language skills in addition to their professional training, in particular through the integrated one-semester study period at Arizona State University. Since these skills are increasingly recognized and required of the next generation of sustainability scientists, in both research and applied fields, students of the Masters Programme in Global Sustainability Science will be well prepared to enter their field. On successful completion of the programme, students will be awarded a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Global Sustainability Science from Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) from Arizona State University.