Online Master of Sustainability, Security, and Resilience

Earn Your Online Master of Sustainability, Security, and Resilience

OHIO’s fully online Master of Sustainability, Security, and Resilience degree program equips working professionals with specific skills and hands-on experience to lead planning, policy, and communication in the face of rapid environmental change.  

Learn from Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, ranked one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Public Service Schools in the U.S., and nationally recognized for its commitment to collaborative, innovative solutions to economic, environmental, and social challenges. The five-semester (18-month) asynchronous program—one of the nation’s first—consists of three stackable certificates and a capstone project, allowing busy professionals to quickly and conveniently earn an MSSR degree, with immediate career impact. 

Benefits

• Fully online in a flexible, part-time format that works with your busy schedule.

• Low tuition and fees ($19,950 Ohio; $20,520 non-Ohio), scholarships, and employer subsidies make the MSSR an outstanding value. Employees of partner organizations (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission [MORPC] and growing), veterans and active-duty military, and Ohio University alumni are offered a $1,000 tuition scholarship.

• The curriculum is specifically and fully focused on policy and societal drivers for change, sustainability, security, and resilience of systems, communities, and organizations to optimize human security and outcomes related to environmental/natural crises.

• Earn skills and credentials while you learn: The five-semester (18 month) program consists of three stackable certificates and a capstone including: Community Risk and Resilience, Environmental Change Management and Leadership, and Planning Resilient Systems.

• No GRE is required for admission.

For more information, email the Voinovich School Admissions Team.