School of Graduate Studies

Trent’s M.A. in Sustainability Studies provides interdisciplinary graduate education and research focused on environmental sustainability, economic prosperity, and social responsibility. Customize your degree through an individual study plan balancing core and elective courses while developing research, critical-thinking, professional, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. Prepare to address complex sustainability challenges and become an intellectual and organizational leader across academia, government, industry, and the non-profit sector.

In the Master of Management at the Trent School of Business, you learn in small-group environments with award-winning faculty examining the larger social issues facing business in an ever-changing environment. Here you will build your core business knowledge and job-ready skills through a combination of independent and collaborative learning, then apply them through a workplace internship that provides hands-on, real-world management experience. Refine your professional skills, build your network, and graduate with a competitive career edge.

This hands-on, career-focused master’s program combines an in-depth understanding of how modern analytical instruments work with practical training and industry experience. Learn from leading faculty and expert staff while studying at one of Canada’s most research-intensive universities, with access to Trent’s renowned Water Quality Centre. Build work-integrated industry experience through a paid co-op placement, developing your professional network and preparing for careers in government, industry, commercial and academic laboratories.  

Prepare to become an expert in forensic science through foundational science, applied research, scientific analysis, and hands-on learning. Learn from faculty with extensive academic, practitioner and professional experience while exploring forensic applications across social, judicial, and academic contexts.  

Gain practical expertise through coursework, hands-on research and training with cutting-edge technology and techniques, developing your understanding of forensic science applications and ability to interpret scientific data and communicate science in legal contexts.

Explore educational theory and critically analyze current issues in education through research-based approaches that support transformative practice and intellectual independence. Customize your studies and research focus while learning in small classes from expert faculty in areas including literacies, leadership, ecological and social justice, environmental education, curriculum theory, Indigenous education, mathematics education, and critical theory. Develop transferable skills for careers in education, industry, community, or public service.

Pursue original scholarship focused on contemporary issues in the humanities and social sciences through critical, cultural, and political theory. Develop your expertise through independent research, core seminars, teaching and research assistantships and dissertation work. Graduate prepared for careers in teaching and research while contributing to cultural inquiry and artistic innovation in your community.

Build on your materials science expertise through advanced research exploring how chemistry and physics shape the properties and applications of matter. Offered jointly by Trent University and Ontario Tech University, this Ph.D. program provides opportunities for in-depth study across nanotechnology, electronic materials, surface science, biomaterials, and materials characterization while developing research expertise to create new knowledge in materials science. Prepare for academic and research careers in public and private sector research and development.

Explore psychology and neuroscience through a research-intensive master’s program with three distinct fields of study. Apply research techniques suited to your interests with guidance from experienced faculty in quantitative and qualitative methods, while gaining hands-on experience through thesis research and experiential learning. Develop the knowledge, skills and training to pursue careers in academia, government, non-profit and industry settings or further doctoral studies.

Develop expertise as a professional researcher and analyst while studying while exploring diverse, interdisciplinary fields in history. Study topics ranging from political history and foreign relations to the history of gender, the environment, sports, food, childhood, war and memory, dictatorship, and medicine, many of which are one-of-a-kind areas of study in Canada.  

Take your passion for the written word further, examining how texts are produced and circulated, and their ongoing relationship with the public. Study the history and future of published works in this one-of-a-kind program that combines theory and practice with collaboration among faculty, experts, and visiting scholars. Earn a master’s degree in as little as one year while developing advanced communication, analytical and professional skills.