Master's Degree Programme in Corporate Environmental Management
Why this programme?
Do you want to contribute in making business more sustainable? Are you interested in finding sustainability solutions for businesses and organisations? Do you want to be part of climate change mitigation? The Corporate Environmental Management Master’s Programme (CEM) enhances understanding and provides expertise on these issues and more.
This programme provides you excellent abilities to follow current developments in business and science and to graduate as an expert in the rapidly developing field of corporate sustainability.
Programme info
Applications for Master's Degree Programmes can be submitted once a year in January. The next call for applications is in January 2025.
The CEM programme is a two-year full-time programme (120 ECTS credits). The language of instruction and completion in all major courses of the programme is English. Studies begin in September and there is no mid-point entry to the programme. After graduation, students are awarded the title Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration).
Student profile
If you are broadly interested in corporate sustainability and willing to understand the interaction between the company and its environment, this programme is ideal for you.
The CEM Master’s Programme aims at educating students to become experts in corporate sustainability with an environmental focus. It offers its graduates an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues preparing the graduates to tackle these complex issues in business life. The international learning environment provides skills for identifying and managing environmental impacts; promoting environmental sustainability in business; and innovating new business solutions and sustainable business models.
The Master's Degree Programme in Corporate Environmental Management is an international programme with students from all over the world. Students are encouraged to apply to international internships and the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics offers possibilities for student exchange internationally.
Career
Graduates from the Master's Degree Programme in Corporate Environmental Management can work either in the public sector in public administration, municipalities, towns or environment centers, or in the private sector in companies. In addition, national and international non-governmental and other organisations are potential employers.
The graduates can also work in the field of environmental-related marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship, reporting and communications based on their own interests.
Job titles can be for example:sustainability expert/specialist/analyst, environmental manager/expert, sustainability project manager, sales and sustainability specialist, corporate responsibility reporting specialist, project coordinator.
How and when to apply?
The next call for applications is in January 2025
In order to be eligible to international master’s programmes at the University of Jyväskylä, applicants must hold (or must complete by our deadline) a bachelor’s degree, master's degree or equivalent from a recognised institution of higher education. Please note also, that all applicants, even native speakers, must demonstrate their English language proficiency in one of the ways mentioned in the admission criteria.
The online application form will be available in the Studyinfo.fi portal only during the application period. In addition to the online application form, the applicant needs to submit the required attachments mentioned in the programme-specific admission criteria and on the application form.
Well before you apply, please read carefully the general instructions for applying and the programme-specific admission criteria below.
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If you have questions concerning the admission process, please contact JYU Admission Services: admissions@jyu.fi
About tuition fees and the scholarship programme for students liable to pay tuition fees, please contact the International Office: degree-students@jyu.fi
If you have programme-specific questions for example on studies in the programme, or the suitability of the field of your previous degree when applying to the programme, please contact us: cem-info@jyu.fi
