A few days ago I got to meet a student of MSc Environmental Governance programme (MEG), a two-year master which is offered in Freiburg (Germany). She read this blog by the end of the first year and wrote me to know more about the program, considering the possibility to either switch or to do her second year at SLU. Interestingly enough, I applied for the same master as her, so she could have been my classmate!
There are actually connections between lecturers here and there, and I know both have a social sciences focus (because I took a test offered to check if your interest match with the master’s content). However, I thought I preferred ECM because it seemed more centred on a topic, communication, and I thought that during postgraduate education it was better to specialize on something. Also, there are less but longer courses in ECM, whereas MEG courses seemed interesting to me, but there were many so it may be more intense. Another reason for me choosing ECM was that at the time I did not quite grasp what “Governance” even meant, so would an employer do? I wondered. Although I guess the right one does!.
Anyways, I just wanted to share this!
Ana