Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management

The Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management (MSEEM) curriculum is a multidisciplinary program with courses taught in schools across Georgia Tech including Public Policy, Business, City and Regional Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Economics, among others. MSEEM can be completed either full time (4-4-2 courses in a single year) or part time (2-2-1 courses each year for 2 years).

Program of Study
Required courses
PUBP 6312Economics of Environmental Policy3
PUBP 8803Special Topics (Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management Policy and Management)3
Professional Paper6
Electives 1
Quantitative Methods6
Applied Policy Methods and Data Analysis
Quantitative Models in Public Policy
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Advanced Research Methods I
Advanced Research Methods II
Special Topics (Cost Benefit Analysis)
Special Topics (Big Data & Public Policy)
Advanced Environmental Data Analysis
Environmental Analysis Using GIS
Data Analytics in Business
Materials in Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Management9
Earth Systems
Environmental Issues
Environmental Values and Policy Goals
Sustainability and Environmental Policy
Environmental Law
Energy Policy & Markets
Energy Technology Policy
Special Topics (Enviornmental Finance)
Special Topics (Sustainability & Environmental Policy)
Special Topics (Smart Cities)
Special Topics (Utility Regulation & Policy)
Special Topics (Energy Efficiency & Environmental Impacts)
Environmental Systems I
Issues in Sustainable Construction Technology
Zero Energy Housing
Environmental Engineering Systems
Environmental Systems Design Project
Environmental Impact Assessment
Fundamentals of Environmental Modeling and Mathematics
Sustainable Engineering
Air Pollutant Formation and Control
Transportation, Energy, and Air Quality
Air Pollution Physics and Chemistry
Special Topics (Chem Eng of Energy Systems)
Special Topics in Organic Chemistry (Fundamentals & Challenges for a Sustainable Chemical Enterprise)
Introduction to Climate Change Planning
Urb Env Plan & Design
Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment
Climate Change and the City
Sustainable Urban Development
Introduction to Climate Change
Introduction to Complex Environmental Systems
Special Topics (Climate & Global Change)
Special Topics (Environmental Geochemistry)
Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
Macroeconomics of Innovation
The Environment in World History
Special Topics (Energy & International Security)
Sustainable Business Practicum
Business Strategies For Sustainability
Materials in Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing
Policy & Management3
Ethics, Epistemology, and Public Policy
Fundamentals of Policy Processes
Public Management
Policy Implementation and Administration
Microeconomics for Policy Analysis
Public Finance Policy
Public Policy Analysis
Policy and Program Evaluation
Policy Tools for Environmental Management
Environmental Values and Policy Goals
Sustainability and Environmental Policy
Environmental Law
Energy Policy & Markets
Energy Technology Policy
Advanced Environmental Policy
Special Topics (Climate Change Policy)
Policy Tools for Environmental Management
Environmental Law
Total Credit Hours30

Other program guidelines:

  • All courses must be taken on a letter-grade basis.
  • All courses used to satisfy the course requirements must be completed with a grade of C (2.00) or better.
  • A maximum of 3 credit hours of transfer credit may be used to satisfy the course requirements. This includes courses taken at another institution or credit earned through the AP or IB program, assuming the scores meet Georgia Tech minimum standards.