Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) prepares its students for leadership roles at the complex intersection of technology, business, and public policy in energy and sustainability. MSES graduates emerge as marketable and highly sought-after change agents, leveraging their program experience to secure jobs with some of the largest energy and sustainability firms in the world.

BECOME A SUSTAINABILITY CHANGE AGENT 

MS in Energy and Sustainability

MS in Energy and Sustainability

up-and-coming challenges. Customize your curriculum at a top-10 University across dozens of classes in technology, finance, and sustainability, including a capstone consulting practicum for a corporate, non-profit or government program partner.

Top-tier
faculty

Learn from tenured faculty and renowned, practicing energy and sustainability professionals who bring a wealth of real-world experience and present-day insights and challenges to the classroom.

engaged northwestern community

Expand your horizons beyond program offerings and engage with broader ecosystem of energy and sustainability programming and peers at Kellogg, the Graduate School, and beyond.

career development 
& mentorship

A powerful combination of personalized career mentors and an engaged alumni and program network has supported extremely competitive placement and compensation rates for MSES graduates. 

Top-tier faculty

Learn from tenured faculty and renowned, practicing energy and sustainability professionals who bring a wealth of real-world experience and present-day insights and challenges to the classroom.

engaged northwestern 
community

Expand your horizons beyond program offerings and engage with broader ecosystem of energy and sustainability programming and peers at Kellogg, the Graduate School, and beyond.

career development 

& mentorship

A powerful combination of personalized career mentors and an engaged alumni and program network has supported extremely competitive placement and compensation rates for MSES graduates. 

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Fast and
focused

Full-time, ten-month Master’s degree program provides strong professional training to deliver energy and sustainability solutions, while minimizing time out of the workforce.

IMPORTANT AND 
INTERDISCIPLINARY

Empowering students with diverse academic and professional backgrounds to advance careers as leaders in one of the most important and fastest-growing global industries: energy and sustainability.

Professional

Hands-on student exposure to industry practitioners through the MSES faculty body, field visits, and a capstone consulting project creates a powerful professional network for graduates.

Limit time out of the workforce with a full-time 10-month, cohort-based program that combines academic rigor with real-world experience. Our world-class faculty teach an interdisciplinary curriculum from a practitioner perspective, 
training MSES students to address

unique 70/30 blend of technology and business coursework

principles and newer,  emerging technologies. Business courses (30 percent) in finance, marketing, and management provide a framework for students to understand how to translate their technology ideas into practical business solutions.

MSIT provides an intensive and unique curriculum across three fundamental areas: communication systems and networks, computing systems engineering, and business and management principles. Technical courses (70 percent) focus on fundamental engineering

WHY NORTHWESTERN?

MS in Energy and Sustainability

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A few companies that have hired our graduates

at Northwestern University

“Working with people from different backgrounds and learning how to utilize their skills best was a big takeaway for me. Everyone in EDI has a really different, unique approach to things and it’s just a really good lesson to learn for any job.”

Morgan Williams (EDI ‘18)
Product Researcher, P&G

Our Alumni

"Our program is about developing hybrid designers poised to work with others in solving the complex design problems companies are facing now and in the future. This requires the skills, agility, and collaboration to work across typical boundaries in addition to leveraging their core technical competencies. Our job is to tailor this 
approach to their particular area of interest."

Co-director, edi program
Jim Wicks

Our Faculty

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A few companies that have hired 
our graduates

Limit time out of the workforce with a full-time 
10-month, cohort-based program that combines academic rigor with real-world experience. Our world-class faculty teach an interdisciplinary curriculum from a practitioner perspective, 
training MSES students to address up-and-coming challenges.
Customize your curriculum at a top-10 University across dozens of classes in technology, finance, and sustainability, including a capstone consulting practicum for a corporate, non-profit or government program partner.

Fast and
focused

Full-time, ten-month Master’s degree program provides strong professional training to deliver energy and sustainability solutions, while minimizing time out of the workforce.

Professional

Hands-on student exposure to industry practitioners through the MSES faculty body, field visits, and a capstone consulting project creates a powerful professional network for graduates.

IMPORTANT AND 
INTERDISCIPLINARY

Empowering students with diverse academic and professional backgrounds to advance careers as leaders in one of the most important and fastest-growing global industries: energy and sustainability.

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