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Graduate Degrees in Design for Sustainability

Ubiquity University is partnering with Gaia Education to offer GEDS students an opportunity to upgrade their GEDS certificate to a Master’s Degree, PhD or MA/PhD combination.

The reversal of the climate crisis depends on regenerative communities

The reversal of the climate crisis depends on truly regenerative communities which thrive within planetary boundaries. To achieve this, education is the biggest tool in the urgent transition to a more regenerative future.

Ubiquity University, in partnership with Gaia Education, is delighted to offer this graduate program in Design for Sustainability. The core course provides participants with whole-systems design and systemic thinking skills, analytical abilities, and practical tools to support the redesign of the human presence on Earth, one local community and bioregion at a time.

We recommend that your program begins with Ubiquity’s Creative Journey to Dissertation course, which will give you the tools to shape, and eventually write, your thesis or dissertation. You will then continue your studies with Gaia, and return again to Ubiquity for the higher education credential.

On completion, you will have enough experience and knowledge of these practices to develop your own unique and well-researched contribution to the field in the form of a thesis or dissertation.

If you have already completed your coursework with Gaia Education, you can begin the process to enroll with Ubiquity by clicking the button below:

About the program

The GEDS program, also offered in Spanish and Portuguese, is divided in four interconnected dimensions: Social Design, Ecological Design, Economic Design and Worldview, each conducted over an eight-week period. This course is completed with the Design Studio – providing an opportunity to work with a design team and focus on real-life design projects proposed by the participants.

For more information on the core GEDS program, please click here

Who is it for?

This program is for anyone who wishes to immerse themselves in the systemic thinking and approaches vital to the reversal of the climate crisis and the creation of regenerative communities worldwide.

During this program, you will:

Eligibility Criteria

Students must have:

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“This course is helping me understand the challenges we are facing in the world today and what the root causes are. What I find most valuable is integrating systems thinking in my approach and finding personal relevance in the content of the course. I would like to share the new insights I have gained with other people and I’m considering a new career path where I can engage further with key issues around inequality, climate change and economics. ”

A. Johnson, Spain

Program Requirements

MA Degree in Design for Sustainability

GEDS Coursework

Creative Journey to Dissertation

PhD in Design for Sustainability

GEDS Coursework

Creative Journey to Dissertation

Chartres Academy

Great Books

MA/PhD in Design for Sustainability

GEDS Coursework

Creative Journey to Dissertation

Chartres Academy

Great Books

Electives (8 credits)

For each of the degree options available, students have the options of breaking their payments into parts. Please see the table below for this breakdown. Please note that the costs do not include the core program with Gaia Education.

MA Degree

$5000

PhD Degree

$15000

MA/PhD Degree

$16600

$2000

1st installment – before enrolling in Creative Journey course

$1500

2nd installment – before selection of Major Advisor

$1500

3rd installment – upon submission of final thesis/dissertation

$5000

1st installment – before enrolling in Creative Journey course

$5000

2nd installment – Before taking Chartres Academy and Great Books course

$5000

3rd installment – Before choosing Major Advisor and Submitting Dissertation

$5000

1st installment – before enrolling in Creative Journey course

$5000

2nd installment – Before taking Chartres Academy, Great Books and Electives

$6600

3rd installment – Before choosing Major Advisor and Submitting Dissertation

Save up to
$750
paying full

Ubiquity offers a discount for students that are able to make the full payment up front. That means you save $250 on a Masters, $500 on a PhD and $750 on MA/PhD.

About Gaia

As an award-winning provider of holistic Education for Sustainable Development, Gaia Education empowers students across the globe to see the interconnectedness of life. They teach the knowledge & skills needed to design truly regenerative communities which thrive within planetary boundaries.

They offer online and face-to-face courses, webinars, Masterclasses, and international project-based learning.

They believe that education is the biggest tool in the urgent transition to a more regenerative future, reversing the climate crisis.

The Ubiquity Graduate Degree

The Ubiquity Graduate Program combines the US and European designs of graduate programs with a blend of taught learning with research and writing. The thesis or dissertation must demonstrate excellence at every level. It must show awareness of the history of the literature in your particular area; demonstrate careful analysis and understanding of the field in question; and, most importantly, show how your insight can be applied to the real world. The dissertation must be scholarly and utilize extensive bibliographical data and footnotes. It should, in other words, be an impeccable work of research.

The Creative Journey to Dissertation -
Finding Your Voice, Making your Mark

The “Creative Journey to Dissertation” is a 1-week intensive designed by our Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo. The course is a critical part of the dissertation writing process and is a requirement for all MA/PhD candidates.

Support during your Graduate Program

During your graduate dissertation writing you will be supported by a Major Advisor of your own choosing, as well as optional writing courses and writing mentorship.

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Gyorgyi Szabo PhD

Core faculty of Dissertation Writing

Gyorgyi is Dean of Graduate Studies at Ubiquity University. She was a Co-Founder and Academic Dean of the ‘Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study’ (ELCAS). She served as the Director of Research and Development of the Center’s Exploratoria Program. She was co-creator of the WorldShift International Foundation, and the WorldShift 2012 organizations, and currently serves as the Executive Director at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Memnosyne Foundation. She lectures worldwide and has published two books; papers in The Scientific and Medical Network’s Review, The Shift Network, and World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Gyorgyi Szabo holds a PhD in Sociology – Summa Cum Laude awarded by the Sorbonne, University of Paris. She is also a trained Reiki and Reconnective Healing practitioner. Her holistic approach to metaphysics and interest in conscious evolution serves as foundation for her work in facilitating cooperative evolution toward a peaceful and regenerative world.