Courses on Sustainability
EPFL currently offers around 150 courses related to sustainability. We have provided the curated list below to suggest a range of course options at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels covering a wide range of disciplines and topics relevant to sustainability.

ENV-470: Development Engineering Photo credit: Silvia Hostettler
- ENV-220 Fundamentals in ecology
- ENV-300 Pollutants analysis in the environment
- ENV-304 Sanitary engineering, water and waste management
- ENV-361 Urban and regional planning and Management
- ENV-370 Environmental system analysis and assessment
- HUM-120 (a) Global Issues: Food A
- HUM-120 (b) Global Issues: Food B
- HUM-121 (a) Global Issues: Climate A
- HUM-121 (b) Global Issues: Climate B
- HUM-123 (a) Global Issues: Energy A
- HUM-123 (b) Global Issues: Energy B
- HUM-124 (a) Global Issues: Mobility A
- HUM-124 (b) Global Issues: Mobility B
- HUM-125 (a) Global Issues: Health A
- HUM-125 (b) Global Issues: Health B
- HUM-226 Sustainable development A
- HUM-361 Introduction to sustainable entrepreneurship
- PENS-206 Organization of a sustainable construction project
- PENS-309 Urban neighborhoods, infrastructures and sustainable development
- AR-440 UE K: Architecture and Sustainability: performance studies
- AR-442 Comfort and architecture: sustainable strategies
- AR-465 Urban habitat and development
- AR-496 Behind/Beyond future cities
- AR-497 Building design in the circular economy
- ChE-304 Energy systems engineering
- CIVIL-442 Integrated Planning of Energy Infrastructure
- CIVIL-474 Civil engineering teaching unit: Sustainable construction
- ENV-409 Air pollution
- ENV-402 Sanitary engineering in developing countries
- ENV-461 Sustainability assessment of urban systems
- ENV-470 Development engineering
- ENV-510 Life cycle assessment in energy systems
- HUM-470 Economic growth and sustainability II
- HUM-471 Economic growth and sustainability I
- ME-409 Energy conversion and renewable energy
- ME-516 Lifecycle performance of product systems
- MSE-463 Recycling of materials
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