MCTS alumni: sectors, profiles and impact

In March 2025, we conducted a survey to find out how the former Master's Degree in Sustainability Science and Technology (MCTS) has influenced the professional trajectory of our alumni—of which the University Master's Degree in Sustainability and Strategies for a Just Global Transition (MUSE) is the update as of September 2026. The 44 responses reflect a diverse community, committed and highly involved with current social and environmental challenges.

Diverse Educational Backgrounds

The word cloud regarding initial training before entering the MCTS highlights a richness of original profiles that constitutes one of the master's greatest strengths. Terms like engineering, architecture, environmental, and industrial predominate, but we also find philosophy, biology, economics, communication, or politics. This diversity fosters an environment of interdisciplinary dialogue where critical, creative, and transformative perspectives are generated to face the great challenges of sustainability.

Diversity of Professional Fields

The graph on the current field of work shows how MCTS alumni are distributed across multiple sectors. The private sector (consultancies, companies, and industries) accounts for almost 41% of the responses, followed by the academic and research sector with 20%. Also notable are people working in the third sector, in public administration, and in entrepreneurship, as well as mixed or singular cases such as professionals who combine the public and private sectors, or who have opted for alternative paths like artistic ceramics. This variety is a clear demonstration of the transversality and real applicability of the MCTS in very diverse environments.

Useful and Relevant Training

When we ask if the knowledge and skills acquired in the master's degree are useful in professional life, more than 90% of the participants state that they find them very useful (52%) or quite useful (38%). Only a very small percentage considers them to be of little use. This result endorses the pertinence of the content, the interdisciplinary methodology, and the practical approach of the master's degree.