Make your mark in building a sustainable future. UNE offers a range of programs focusing on sustainability, environmental protection, economics and business, policy and planning.
UNE was the first university in Australia to offer a Bachelor of Sustainability. This degree combines arts and sciences to provide a truly all-encompassing study of sustainability, including ecologically sustainable development and community and economic sustainability. Our sustainability degrees will equip you to build solutions for the greatest challenges presently facing society, and develop you as a leader in environmental strategy and policy. They focus on current and future environmental, social, legal and economic sustainability issues.
Our staff are at the forefront of their fields, they are passionate about sustainability, and as well as teaching, they also research in: ecosystems, environmental law and policy, carbon and water trading and climate change.
The Bachelor of Sustainability is about understanding social and community sustainability as well as ecologically sustainable development. It provides a unique opportunity to develop skills and an understanding of sustainability in a holistic manner, integrating social science with environmental science.
You will study a diverse range of subjects, including environmental management, geography, law, psychology, economics and policy; and you can choose from a broad range of electives. Graduates will be equipped with the ability to understand the complexities of the environmental and social problems which beset our society, as well as the problem-solving abilities needed to build a sustainable future.
Please see course details for individual course rules and admissions criteria. Note some degrees have mandatory intensive schools which require attendance on campus.
*Course list is subject to change.
