Master of Cleantech Leadership and Transformation
UPEI Masters Program
The Master of Cleantech Leadership and Transformation at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is a 16-month inter-disciplinary professional master’s degree that aims to produce a talent pool of leaders and innovators to assist governments, industries, and communities adopt and create sustainable solutions that transform the planet towards ‘net zero’. The program combines environmental science and technology with a study of cleantech policy and regulations, with equity and indigenous ways of knowing infused throughout. It includes leadership courses and culminates with a capstone project where student teams work alongside partners to solve real-world sustainable challenges.
The path to reaching net zero and beyond requires knowledge, innovation, collaboration, leadership, and change agents. This program will accept recent graduates and professionals with bachelor’s degrees from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds and disciplines such as environmental studies, science, engineering and business. The ideal students are advocates, change agents, solution- and action-oriented, self-motivated, collaborative, passionate about people, community, and planet—and their interconnectedness—who can think critically about systems and solutions and bring a global perspective.
The program is the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada and is necessary to build a talent pool to innovate, leading the transformation towards net zero. The Royal Bank of Canada estimates that the transition to net zero could create up to 400,000 new jobs in Canada by 2030. In addition to Canada, several countries have set specific net zero targets, so we can expect job creation in the cleantech sector to increase globally.
Applications are expected to open in 2025 with a cohort of students beginning in September 2025.