Advance Your Climate Career with a Master of Climate Solutions

Critical leadership skills are integrated within a compact curriculum, preparing you to be a proficient, conscientious leader in addressing climate challenges. A central change making course, Organizational, Political, and Societal Change for Climate Solutions, equips you with a framework for enacting change within organizations and across society. The year-long capstone program includes training in key management skills. All courses reinforce lessons in communication, problem-solving, and teamwork

Whether or not you come with a background in quantitative skills, be prepared to immerse yourself thoroughly. We’re here to ensure you acquire the necessary knowledge, whatever your starting point.

A low-carbon future requires change across society and within organizations. Our unique leadership course Organizational, Political, and Societal Change for Climate Solutions prepares you to be a change agent across sectors like businesses, civil society organizations, and government agencies. Emphasizing power dynamics and influence, the course offers strategies for enacting change and understanding the process of decision-making. Key topics include sources of power, societal shifts, and industry disruptions. Practical exercises, analytical memos, and a final report based on real-world interviews enrich the learning experience. The curriculum also underscores leadership skills including strategic planning, behavior change, collaboration, and conflict resolution to drive impactful change.

Climate impacts and climate solutions have an uneven impact across society, and too often those with the least will bear the biggest burden. Meeting the climate challenge means saving the planet and also finding solutions that protect those in greatest need. The MCS was built with equity and climate justice at its core. Your learning journey here prepares you to adeptly evaluate and seamlessly integrate equity impacts into your professional work.

The goal of the MCS is to both train you in new skills and to connect you to the real world. The program will connect you with sustainability leaders via guest presentations, fireside chats, and excursions. The program also includes a yearlong immersive capstone experience that pairs small groups of students with a real partner organization seeking help in creating a climate solution. Program staff prepare a pool of potential projects, allowing you to apply your knowledge in real life, real time.

There is no better place to study climate solutions than in California. The Rausser College unites experts from three top-ranked departments known for their faculty’s applied research in climate and sustainability action across policy and business, forging a nexus of innovation with industry across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.