MIT Sloan Sustainability Certificate

At MIT Sloan, we believe that there is a fundamental alignment between healthy businesses, healthy environments, healthy societies, and an economy that serves human needs. Realizing that possibility, however, requires that we transform organizations, markets, and communities. While today’s business models have generated unforeseen levels of economic growth and technological innovation, they have also generated severe strains on our environment, social systems and personal lives. The new Certificate in Sustainability empowers students to take on this transformation by building upon MIT’s distinguished accomplishments in technology, science, and social science, its tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ideal of “mens et manus” (“mind and hand”).

The required core and elective courses in the Certificate Program tap into Sloan’s strengths in process improvement, organizational learning and adaptation, entrepreneurship and commercialization, the dynamics of organizational and social change, and the interactions of markets, firms and organizations, while connecting to MIT’s strengths in science and technology.

Note: The Certificate is only open to masters-level students at MIT, as an add-on to our existing degree programs. It is not an executive education program. Please see the "Admissions" section below for a list of programs whose students are eligible for the Certificate.

Sustainability Certificate Requirements:
Required Core Courses:
15.871 System Dynamics (fall H1 or spring H1)
15.877 Professional Seminar in Sustainability (fall)
15.878 Capstone course in sustainability (spring H2)
15.913 Strategies for Sustainable Business (spring H1)
15.915 Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) (spring H2)

Elective Courses:
Select two from the list of approved electives.

Benefits:

Certificate in Sustainability
Access to Summer Sustainability Internships
Special Resume Book for Sustainability
MBA students can pursue a track in Sloan in addition to the certificate

Admissions:

Open enrollment (no priority bidding)
Open to all MBA and Sloan-related programs (e.g., Sloan Fellows, LGO, ESD, SCM, TPP)

Questions:

Contact Jason Jay, Sustainability Initiative Coordinator