Climate change represents an existential threat to civilization. When you join our renewable and clean energy engineering master's program (RCL), you’ll be committing to developing solutions for this challenge, which affects every person and all life on our planet, to help create a world with a sustainable future.
RCL attracts the best and brightest from around the globe, with students coming from over 30 countries, including Fulbright scholars from places like Afghanistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Haiti, and Upper Mongolia. Our program has developed clean energy and sustainability professionals serving as leaders in their profession, communities, regions and nations.
Our program is available for both on-campus and remote students.
Career Outlook and Highlights
Our graduates are working with energy service companies, energy utilities in energy reduction and renewable energy roles, renewable energy development and installation companies, local governmental or national energy and/or sustainability management roles.
A minimum of 30 semester hours:
Thesis option: 24 semester hours of course work (8 classes) and 6 semester hours of research credit
Non-thesis option: 30 semester hours of course work (10 classes). (Suggested for International Students.)
Expected December 2024
Start date
September 2025
School of Engineering
Kettering Laboratories, Room 565,
300 College Park,
Dayton,
Ohio,
45469, United States
Expected December 2024
Start date
September 2025
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited program in engineering, physics, chemistry, applied mathematics or other appropriate program of study. Applicants with a different undergraduate degree may be required to complete prerequisites. Applicants should have at least a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. Some programs require higher GPAs for admission. In some cases, applicants with a GPA below 3.0 may be admitted on a conditional basis.
All students are encouraged to submit proof of English proficiency for Admission into the University of Dayton. Proof of English proficiency can be submitted in one of the following ways: