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Sustainability is in Trent’s DNA. As the leading institution for sustainability studies in Canada, Trent provides graduate students with advanced opportunities to drive your career forward. 

In small-group learning scenarios with award-winning faculty, students build their knowledge and job-ready skills through a combination of independent and collaborative learning experiences – providing a springboard for your future in management. These high demand programs attract ambitious and qualified students from Canada and around the world and feature a hands-on work integrated learning opportunity, providing real world management experience – giving our students a competitive edge in the job market after graduation.

Combine an in-depth understanding of how modern analytical instruments work with the practical skills to operate them in this first-of-its-kind program. Instrumental Chemical Analysis graduate students learn from Trent’s leading faculty and expert staff how to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot modern analytical instruments, facilitating a smooth transition for our graduates into careers with renowned labs and research facilities across the country and around the world.

The applied field of forensic science is evolving to meet the needs of today’s crime scene investigations, whether they be social, judicial or academic. Trent’s innovative Master of Science in Forensic Science (M.Sc.F.S.) program prepares students to become experts in the field, equipping you with a solid background in foundational sciences and hands-on experience. 

Our unique program streams allow you to choose your pathway to future success as you apply critical thinking to current issues in environmental monitoring and assessment while learning and applying the latest techniques in sampling design, data analysis, science communication, geomatics, environmental genomics and landscape ecology.

Explore educational theory and research to gain the critical insights needed for transformative practice. Major themes of the program include: ecological and social justice, leadership and educational administration, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge, and curriculum inquiry.

Trent’s Cultural Studies graduate programs emphasize research and research creation. Students immerse themselves in a thriving local arts community as they pursue discussions surrounding culture and technology, environmental communication, gender and the body, science as knowledge, discourse, and narrative, social and political theory, and media theory. 

A broad multi-disciplinary area of science, Materials Science seeks to advance the understanding, prediction, and application of the properties of matter. Through this program, offered jointly by Trent University and Ontario Tech University, students build on and incorporate fundamental science principles into their graduate level research project. Develop skills in project management and effective communication of technical information as you prepare for future-ready success in today’s modern environment of research and development in both the public and private sectors.

The Psychology graduate program (MSc) is a research-intensive program with three distinct fields of study providing a sound preparation for careers in health, science or communications-related fields and a natural stepping stone to pursue further doctoral (PhD) studies, including our brand new PhD program in Psychology. 

The Master of Psychology program offers three unique areas of study:

Become a professional researcher and analyst under the supervision of groundbreaking historians and authors in a diverse range of topics, including political history and foreign relations, gender history, environmental history, the history of sports, food history, the history of childhood, war and memory, dictatorship, and the history of medicine. Choose between a major research paper or a thesis, and structure your studies over one year or two.