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Full time & Part time September MSc 12 months full-time 24 or 36 months part-time 60 months Professional Development route
Business & Management (5) Engineering (12) Environmental Sciences (13)

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Are you passionate about the environment and want to make a positive impact through entrepreneurship? Look no further than the Environmental Entrepreneurship MSc programme at Strathclyde University. This unique course, the first of its kind in Europe, is open to graduates from all backgrounds. Whether you studied social sciences, arts, engineering, law, chemistry, maths, physics, geology, biology, or business, this programme is for you. You'll develop the skills to launch new ventures, strategies, products, and technologies that address environmental and resource problems. With flexible learning options and the opportunity to work on real-life projects, this programme sets you up for a successful career in environmental entrepreneurship.

About the course

This unique course, running since 2008 – the first of its kind in Europe – meets the needs of graduate students who want to contribute to environmental improvement and the circular economy, and learn how to identify and evaluate business opportunities. Students are accepted from all backgrounds (social sciences, arts, engineering, law, chemistry, maths, physics, geology, biology and business).

The course is suitable for anyone who'd like to refocus their career on environmental or sustainable entrepreneurship. You'll develop skills to enable you to launch new ventures, strategies, products and technologies that address society's environmental and natural resource problems. It's a collaboration between the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship.

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Entry Requirements

Normally a first-class or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in any degree discipline.

All backgrounds considered, including social sciences, arts, engineering, law, chemistry, maths, physics, geology, biology and business.

Lower degree classifications may be considered if there is strength elsewhere (for example, relevant work experience, excellent final project/dissertation, very strong academic letter of reference, very strong application statement linking with career goals).




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Student Profiles

Steven Finnie
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I’ve lived in Glasgow for 11 years now and went to Strathclyde University to study a Masters in Environmental Entrepreneurship in 2008 after a break from higher education. My first degree was in Social Policy and Management Studies which I undertook at Glasgow University in 1998. In 2008, I decided to return to Higher Education and study a Masters. Aside from music, my other main passion was the environment, so when I found the Environmental Entrepreneurship course on the Strathclyde University website I applied immediately. The course seemed tailor-made for me, combining the business elements of my first degree with my passion for environmental sustainability.

Overall I found the Environmental Entrepreneurship course extremely rewarding and fulfilling. One of the best aspects of the programme of study is that all of the modules include students from a variety of different degree courses, which makes it extremely interesting and facilitates varied and passionate discussions! Another benefit of the Environmental Entrepreneurship course is that some of the modules are taken at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Whether intending to start a new business or not, the expertise available from the lecturers at the Hunter Centre is invaluable and provides great advice and support for anyone entering the world of business.

Possibly the best part of the course for me was the client-based module, which involved working directly with a company to implement or improve their environmental credentials. I was lucky enough to work with Scottish Enterprise, writing a report on how climate change will affect the tourism and food & drink industries in Scotland. The chance to work in a real-life situation and write a report that would actually be used was invaluable. In addition, the work with Scottish Enterprise indirectly led to my current job, which I started before I even graduated.

For me, the best part of the Environmental Entrepreneurship degree was that I knew from the point of applying that it would provide me with a qualification that would help get a job in a rapidly expanding sector and one in which I already had a great deal of passion and desire to work in. In the space of one year, my life has changed completely. I’ve made lots of new friends, gained a valuable qualification, and am working in the environmental sector in a challenging and fun job. I really can’t recommend the course enough!

John Watt
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As someone from a business management background, both in terms of prior employment and undergraduate degree, the MSc in Environmental Entrepreneurship was the perfect course to satisfy my desire for both career development and involvement in sustainable and ethical projects.
Management jobs in the hospitality industry and a subsequent undergraduate degree in Business Information Management left me with a sense that current practices were not sustainable and a new way of doing business was necessary for the future: I just wasn’t quite sure what it was and how!
After reading about the Environmental Entrepreneurship degree on the Strathclyde website, I immediately knew that the course suited my needs. The combination of learning practical sustainable concepts alongside developing the business skills to implement them was an ideal fit. Each module complimented the other, with a core philosophy of finding a business solution to environmental issues present throughout.
Whilst providing the academic challenge you would expect from a master’s degree, the emphasis on developing ‘real-world’ skills and experience was an element of the course that really impressed and benefited me. From the Client-Based module - in which students carry out an environmental project in industry - to the work in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship developing an environmental enterprise from the very start, every aspect of the course had a positive effect on my confidence and employability.
This was exemplified by a STEP Programme summer internship I undertook with InspirAlba, a social enterprise support organisation. I had the capacity to immediately transfer the skills developed through the Environmental Entrepreneurship degree to the workplace, evolving InspirAlba’s outputs in areas such as business planning and social and environmental accounting. I was able to base my dissertation research around this work, whilst subsequently achieving runner-up prize in the STEP Highland Awards for Most Enterprising Student: a testament to the expertise I gained from the course.
I am currently conducting PhD research into Social and Environmental Accounting methods, something which would not have been possible without the combination of the course content, excellent staff support and industry links. I additionally received an offer of a graduate job before accepting the PhD scholarship, further demonstrating the relevance and demand of the skills and knowledge the degree provides. In short, embarking on the MSc in Environmental Entrepreneurship was the best career move I have ever made.

Catalina Silva Plata

It's a very versatile programme that allows you to choose a range of different subjects according to your interests. It adapts to any background, my undergraduate degree was in Industrial Engineering and I had the opportunity to combine this knowledge with the MSc.

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