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.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Fundamentals of Sustainability Science
- Methodology and Informatics for Sustainable Science
- Fundamentals of Climate Change
- Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability Assessment
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
- Climate Policy, Law and Institutions
- Climate Change Risk Assessment and Management
- Communities and Climate Change Adaptation
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Climate Studies & Meteorology Sustainable DevelopmentWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
English requirements
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Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Open admission
- Entrance exam: document screening and oral test
- TOEIC Reading 275, Listening 275, Speaking 120, Writing 120
- Cambridge Exam KET (Distinction 140), PET (Pass 140), FCE (Level B1-140)
- BEC Preliminary
- BULATS 40-59
- Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency VSTEP.3-5 (4.0-5.5)
Tuition Fee
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International
55000000 VND/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 110000000 VND for the full programme during 24 months. -
National
46000000 VND/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 92000000 VND for the full programme during 24 months.
Living costs for Hanoi
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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