The objective of the Integrated Water Management program is to provide students with a broad, multi‐disciplinary foundation in water science and engineering, technology and management. Students will gain discipline expertise from their parent departments. The parent and collaborative programs combined will provide master’s and PhD students with a specialist area of focus and level of understanding of other water-related disciplines such that they can be effective in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary settings and will prepare:

1. master’s students for the workforce or further graduate study and research leading toward a PhD, or
2. PhD students for a career as scholars, researchers or practitioners.

The interdisciplinary objective of the collaborative program will be achieved through successful completion of one graduate course on the key principles, concepts, tools and terminology of multiple water-related disciplines covering science and engineering, technology and management aspects and one course where students work in teams to address water issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.