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Career perspectives

Competences and fields of activity

After graduation you will be able to identify current problems and future developments and to analyse them holistically. On this basis, you will develop appropriate, innovative and practical strategies for solving problems.

The Master of Science (MSc) in Life Sciences with a specialisation in Natural Resource Sciences is intended for future professionals and decision makers in:

  • the private sector
  • administration
  • non-profit organisations 
  • education
  • research

Perspectives

Sustainable management of the environment and natural resources is one of the challenges of our time. Economics, science and politics must find ways of dealing more efficiently with the limited supply of resources, developing appropriate practical solutions and implementing them.

This requires professionals who are familiar with a holistic yet analytical view of the interfaces between nature and society.

Contact

Lic. phil. I Petra Hagen Hodgson
Head of the Master’s study programme
Specialisation in Natural Resource Sciences

phone +41 58 934 59 36
e-mail: petra.hodgson(at)zhaw.ch