Sustainable Food Systems MS

Why this program?

Become an effective agent of food change. You believe that your place is right where you are, you just need a deeper, more robust understanding, knowledge base, and skillset to further yourself and the communities you serve. You believe in the right of every person to have food security. You believe that solutions can and must be sustainable and beneficial for all. Recognizing the unique and complex role food systems play in supporting human health and wellbeing, environmental resiliency, economic equity, and social justice, the MSFS program offers three optional concentrations: Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity, Food Justice, and Food Entrepreneurship.

What can you do with this degree?

Graduates are regularly already in their field, and in the community they wish to serve. Here are just a few careers where our students have landed:

• Registered Dietician
• Non-profit Leadership
• Value Chain Specialist
• Farm or Community Garden Manager
• Food Educator
• Agro-tourism Coordinator
• Food Policy Analyst
• Local Food Management
• Corporate Food Sustainability Specialist
• Food Systems Communications Manager
• Food Journalism/Social Media Food Systems-based Content Creator

What will this program look like?

The Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems is an experience that combines a vibrant online learning environment with the skills, support, knowledge, and networks to help students become leaders in the movements to establish food justice, strong regional food economies, sustainable diets and health, food policy, biodiversity and climate resilience, restorative agroecological approaches to food production, and many other associated career pathways. The program centers equity, sustainability, and knowledge diversity with a common core of courses designed to be completed in one to two years, depending on the student’s chosen pace. All students complete a final Capstone project.