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  • The graduate certificate in Sustainability Strategies prepares students to play a crucial role within organizations by implementing, promoting, and monitoring environmental strategies. You learn to integrate sustainability strategies based on environmental justice and social transformation in the professional fields of governance, management, social mobilization, planning, and development. 

    Program Highlights

    • Commitment to Sustainability and Equity

      Learn to implement, promote, and monitor strategies for environmental and social transformation through a justice-, equity-, and diversity-oriented lens.

    • Progressive Perspectives

      Develop strategic models of administration and management in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors that take into account ecological, social, and financial sustainability. 

    • Career Relevance

      Ideal for aspiring planners, directors, and consultants for environmental NGOs, social movements, community organizations, "green" industries, and planning and regulatory agencies. 

    • University-Wide Community

      Benefit from the resources, student networks, and faculty expertise of a university-wide management and entrepreneurship community. 

    • Program Type Advanced Certificate
    • Credits 18
    • Format Full-time or part-time, on campus
    • Duration 1 year (full-time)
    • Start Term Fall

  • Curriculum

    The certificate curriculum prepares students to pose challenges and create alternatives that address the social and environmental injustices at the root of our planetary crises. Students develop real-world applied skills through direct interaction with faculty practitioners at the top of their fields and engagement in client-based projects. 

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    Career Paths

    Graduates of the certificate program take on multifaceted roles in management, consulting, operations, design, corporate sustainability, and public policy.

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      Industry Engagement

      Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, you gain marketable problem-solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and creative industries.

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      Funded Opportunities

      Funds are earmarked for graduate travel, research, and work to support your study. Opportunities include paid teaching assistantships, research fellowships and assistantships (including ones offered throughout The New School), ample student employment, and other grants available to U.S. domestic and international students alike.

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      Enjoy access to extensive resources including New School libraries, computer labs, archives, and studios, along with Parsons’ state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to support your creative and academic growth.

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