Program Overview

Outdoor Environments for Health and Well-being

The Outdoor Environments for Health and Well-being programme is a Master's degree that focuses on the relationship between outdoor environments and human health. This distance-based programme explores how everyday outdoor environments can promote development, health, and well-being.

Programme Information

The programme is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to investigate how outdoor environments can be designed and used to promote health and well-being. The programme covers topics such as environmental psychology, landscape architecture, and urban planning, with a focus on the design of outdoor environments for healthcare services, schools, housing, and public environments.

Facts and Requirements

• Name: Outdoor Environments for Health and Well-being - Master's Programme
• Level: Master
• Language: English
• Programme scope: 2.0 years, 120.0 credits
• Next start: HT 2026
• Tuition Fees: Citizens of countries outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland are required to pay application and tuition fees.
• First semester: 72,000 SEK
• Total: SEK (variable)
• Application deadline for international students: Variable
• Application deadline for Swedish students: Variable
• Pace of study: Half-time or full-time
• Teaching form: Distance learning
• Application code for Swedish students: 81183 (half-time), 81185 (full-time)
• Application code for international students: 81184 (half-time), 81186 (full-time)
• Requirements:
  • General entry requirements: a Bachelor's degree (undergraduate cycle) corresponding to a minimum of 180 credits
  • Knowledge corresponding to English 6 (Swedish secondary school)
  • Recommended: at least 15 credits in behavioral disciplines, health care, education, design, environmental science, landscape architecture, gardening, or forestry

Degree

The programme leads to a Degree of Master of Science with a major in Environmental Psychology. The degree requirements include:

• A minimum of 30 credits in in-depth study within Environmental Psychology
• A minimum of 30 credits in independent work (degree project) within Environmental Psychology
• Completion of a Degree of Bachelor, Professional Degree of a minimum of 180 credits, or a corresponding overseas qualification

Content

The programme provides scientific perspectives and concepts within relevant subjects in an interdisciplinary context. It covers topics such as:

• Nature-assisted therapy and health promotion
• The role of outdoor environments for learning and development
• Spatial planning or landscape design informed by environmental psychology
• The importance of outdoor environments for individual development, quality of life, well-being, and health

Career

The skills and knowledge acquired on this programme are of strategic use in the development of sustainable societies. Graduates will be prepared for strategic roles in the development and more active use of physical environments in public domains, as well as adapting them to specific user groups.