MSc in Sanitation

Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences – MUBAS

The goal of the MSc in Sanitation is to support Malawi’s and regional efforts to improve public health through sustainable clean water and sanitation services. This will be achieved by educating the students to possess both the fundamental understanding as well as knowledge and skills necessary for creating impact ‘on the ground’. To this end, the programme aims to equip students with innovative skills to apply existing knowledge and theory in practice, and contribute to the development of knowledge in sanitation. The specific objectives of this programme are to (1) equip the students with knowledge in sanitation, which is applicable to Malawi, the region and world over, (2) Provide the students with knowledge on any other related issues (like social and cultural issues) which may have a direct impact on sanitation and public health; and, The aim and objectives will be achieved through lectures, case studies and lessons (exchange) from the Global Sanitation Graduate School’s MSc programmes implemented in various developing countries and IHE-Delft in The Netherlands.

Curriculum

• Sanitation in Developing Countries
•  Sanitation systems and services
• Health Risk Assessment
• Waste Characteristics and Pollution
• WASH Technology
• Project Development and management
• Sanitation Governance
• Financing and public/private sector models for sanitation
• Sanitation and Behaviour change
• WASH in emergencies
• Leadership in WASH
• Research Methods
• Dissertation.

All 12 modules are delivered in first year worth 120 credits while the dissertation is done in second year of the programme (120 credits). The total minimum credit for the entire programme is 240.