MSc in Sustainable Chemical and Process Engineering

Åbo Akademi University's Master's Degree Programme in Sustainable Chemical and Process Engineering is the successor to its chemical engineering master's, taught in English over two years and 120 ECTS in Turku, and leading to a Master of Science (Technology). The structure is twelve months of coursework followed by six months of thesis work, with a summer break between the two years. Only twenty study places are offered.

Chemical engineering at Åbo Akademi has genuine international standing: the university hosts the Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, a long-established research unit whose work on catalysis, biomass conversion, pulping chemistry and process modelling has been recognised as a Finnish centre of excellence. The programme's orientation toward sustainability is not decorative — the Finnish forest-products and chemicals industries have spent two decades on biorefinery, circular-economy and emissions-reduction problems, and the teaching reflects that.

Coursework spans reaction engineering and catalysis, transport phenomena, separation processes, process design and simulation, process control, materials and energy balances, and the sustainability and life-cycle analysis that runs through the programme. The thesis is a substantial six-month research project attached to a group. Some third-party listings advertise named specialisation tracks; the official programme page does not list them, so treat any track names you see elsewhere as unverified.

The fee position is favourable. The sticker price is €12,000 a year, but for students admitted from 2026 onward a €4,000 early-commitment discount applies in year one for accepting and paying by the deadline in the admission letter, and a further €4,000 waiver is applied automatically in year two — bringing the effective cost to roughly €8,000 a year. Admission runs through Finland's national joint application system between 7 and 21 January, once a year, with no rolling entry.