ProfessorPatrick Paul Walsh

 

Admissions are open now, Sept 2025 , full-time and part-time .

 

Our world faces multiple challenges, some new and many enduring, including pandemics, rising global temperatures, unemployment, and inequality. Are you keen to be part of crafting and implementing solutions to the big challenges of our times? If yes, join us for  our new, exciting online Master's Programs that will help prepare you with the tools, skills, and knowledge to build a fulfilling and challenging career tackling the world's biggest challenges.

 

All disciplines can apply.  

 

Economics

Politics

Law

Medicine

Science

Planning

Education

Agriculture

Business

Engineering 

 

The UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development, in partnership with SDSN's SDG Academy, offers cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary, and trans-disciplinary learning for the SDGs. Both UCD and SDSN have mandates to support the UN System through consultative status, and provide students with a unique experience in virtual classrooms with leading academics and global thought leaders. There are also opportunities for excellent placements and careers in sustainable development. The core elements of the Master's require students to study the SDGs at the national level, city level, and through an SDG project. The program will include a wide range of electives to cover the SDG agenda, such as social justice, climate change, industrial economics, food systems, and public health. The Master's is a one-year, full-time program, but can be taken part-time over two years or more.

 

 

In 2015, all member nations of the United Nations adopted Agenda 2030 to mobilize the collective energies of the world to build a future where economic prosperity, planetary health, and the well-being of its people are assured. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set to achieve this bold vision.

 

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) was established to bring together the world's academic and scientific institutions to support the SDGs. The SDG Academy was set up to create and curate online learning materials on the SDGs in partnership with leading global experts in sustainable development.

 

University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, the alma mater of James Joyce, was founded in 1854 and is today a research-intensive global university with purpose, drive, and ambition. The 2024  QS World University Rankings on Sustainability rate UCD as 1st in Ireland and 49th  in the world.