Climate Change and Development Vietnam Japan University

Overview

The Master’s Program in Climate Change and Development (MCCD) at VNU Vietnam Japan University (VJU) aims to:

• Equip students with basic, interdisciplinary knowledge of the nature, tendency, impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation of climate change in relation to development;

• Equip students with competence and skills to discover, analyze, evaluate, forecast problems related to climate change and development; to propose and create climate change adaptation and mitigation measures for sustainable development;

• Train students to work as scientists/ technologists, managers/ leaders/ policy advisers/consultants on climate change business as well as to propose, implement projects and to participate in international and national forums on climate change and development; 

• Provide students with opportunities to pursue PhD at leading universities in Japan and around the world. 

Career opportunities

The program offers a wide range of career opportunities, such as: 

• Start-up businesses in climate change; 

• Experts in science, technology and climate change management for development at enterprises, nature reserves, biosphere reserves, and tourist destinations; 

• Managers, policy makers, policy advisors in management agencies, consultants on climate change response and development in socio-political, international and non-governmental organizations; 

• Researchers and lecturers in academia.