Clark University

Food is a human right.

Are you looking for ways to contribute to innovative initiatives and social movements for food security, sovereignty, and justice?

The Clark University Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems prepares students to tackle the social and ecological complexities that create food insecurity.

This STEM-Designated program will help you build the knowledge, skills, and experience you need to connect your career and your values.

Our dynamic studio courses and Global Learning Collaboratives provide hands-on experiences and know-how to take action. With opportunities for experiential learning in Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Ethiopia, and in our Worcester community, students are prepared to transform institutions and systems to produce equitable and sustainable outcomes.

Environmentally and socially just food systems require diverse forms of knowledge and abilities. Students learn from practitioners, policymakers, and community members to work across intellectual, professional, and individual differences, toward shared visions of sustainable and equitable food systems.

Who Should Apply?

Sustainable Food Systems, M.S. applicants want to explore the frontiers of knowledge while defying conventional wisdom to devise inventive solutions to complex problems — and then roll up their sleeves to get things done. Because it is the right thing to do.

Turn Knowledge into Positive Change

The Department of Sustainability and Social Justice’s mission is more important than ever: to understand the complexity of urgent social, political, and ecological problems and develop leaders who, through collaborative scholarship and innovation, are prepared to find solutions to these challenges.

Clark University is ranked in the “Top 20 best Schools for Making an Impact” by the Princeton Review.