Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Management
Fact sheet
Graduation
Bachelor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Taught language
Deutsch, Englisch
Specialization
Management
Program Emphasis
Sustainability, Sustainable Management
Course options
Berufsbegleitendes Studium, full-online
Locations
Online
Designed for people passionate about sustainability and innovation, ready to turn climate goals into real results
You want to translate sustainability and climate insight into positive environmental and social impact. This program helps you connect responsible management, climate science, and planet-centric innovation, while deepening how you think, decide, and relate to the systems around you.
You want to translate sustainability and climate insight into positive environmental and social impact. This program helps you connect responsible management, climate science, and planet-centric innovation, while deepening how you think, decide, and relate to the systems around you.
- Passionate Sustainability Innovators
You want to improve an organization's impact and need the tools to achieve it step by step. - Impact-Driven Business Innovators
You want to drive business innovation while making sure the organization stays on top of its positive impact. - Climate-Conscious Solution Builders
You want to build nature based solutions, launch climate initiatives, and ensure their impact. - Purposeful Career Builders
You are finding your path and want practical sustainability skills, a sense of direction, and a learning model designed to help you grow with honesty and curiosity.
Program Emphasis
As the urgency of climate and sustainability challenges grows, the ability to turn insight into action has never mattered more. This Bachelor of Arts helps you apply evidence-based approaches to sustainability management with confidence. From day one, you will work on your own purposeful venture or intrapreneurial projects through the phases of Orientation, Calibration, Elevation, and Activation.
- Build an Entrepreneurial and Resilient Mindset
Start by developing an understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset, what true resilience looks like in practice, and how your assumptions and choices shape sustainable outcomes. - Understand the Foundations of Climate Science
Build foundational knowledge in environmental science and science-based sustainability management. - Turn circular Thinking into Scalable Action
Learn to leverage insights on circular economy and planet-centric thinking to shape circular solutions that are here to stay. - Improve an Organization’s Impact
With strong climate knowledge at hand, learn to turn ESG strategies and circular economy practices into real organizational outcomes.
Requirements / Application
- Applicants must provide a secondary school leaving certificate. For those with a German certificate, including Abitur or Fachhochschulreife, the verification is done in-house. For non-German certificates, the verification is completed via a ministry check or entrance exam.
- Proof of English proficiency at a minimum B2 level is required. While certificates are preferred, this requirement can be waived if English is the applicant’s native language or if they have completed a degree program taught in English.
- Applicants must demonstrate their motivation through the application form and during the admission process.
- An admission interview is mandatory and is used to assess the applicant’s eligibility and alignment with the program.
- Applicants must be able to attend mandatory evening course discussions, which are scheduled at 6 PM CET. Accommodations for other time zones are currently limited until there is a critical mass of learners in those regions.
- Adherence to ToU’s community guidelines, which emphasize a spirit of service, is required. This is assessed during the admission process, including the interview.
- A letter of motivation must be submitted to explain the applicant’s reasons for joining the program. If an applicant has participated in a company-sponsored challenge (e.g., Deutsche Bank), they may be exempt from submitting the letter but must still demonstrate their motivation during the interview.
